BethMay 8, 2024
Grimm 
GRADS, CONGRATS, and if you are the Indiana University student who put this on your mortar board for your ceremony, please DM me so that we may figure out a way for me to buy you every last beer or cocktail you would like to consume to properly celebrate your graduation.
May 7, 2024 at 8:57pmWeb
Show threadGrimm May 7, 2024
I can't emphasize enough how anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals [EDIT, per the incisive and spot-on replies--> and corporate MBAs] who run major universities and who, in that role, sent armed-to-the-teeth goons after their own students, should not only not have their jobs as of the summer, they should be marched across campus and pelted with garbage. You betrayed a MASSIVE trust and, in an actual just society where half the country didn't celebrate violence and "iron-hand" policy prescriptions because it gibes with their bigotry, you would now be fucking unemployable.
Show threadGrimm May 9, 2024
For what it's worth, "the fascists literally, provably wrong and aggressively malicious about EVERYthing they have ever said actually make a good point on this one thing and we should support their position" is perhaps as stupid and just morally abject a thing as anyone can say so, if people call you out for it or perhaps just stop listening to anything you say ever again, please understand it is for a genuinely good reason and your credit is *pfft* gone at this table for all of eternity. Just a thought.
Show threadGrimm May 9, 2024

"But we need to unite against Trump!"

Then stop validating his and his allies' stupid stupid fucking opinions, dipshit.

Show threadGrimm May 10, 2024
More of this. Everywhere. https://www.westernmassnews.com/2024/05/09/umass-commencement-speaker-withdraws-following-campus-arrests/
UMass commencement speaker withdraws from event following campus arrests

This year’s commencement speaker for UMass undergraduate commencement has backed out just a little over a week before the event.

Western Massachusetts News
Show threadHeliographMay 9, 2024
@GrimmReality well said 😬 
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!May 9, 2024
@GrimmReality Yes!! Gone….
Show threadComrade WeezMay 9, 2024
@GrimmReality even out of focus, I'm astounded at how many drooling goatfuckers the MAGAts can muster for one event
Show threadGrimm May 9, 2024
@weezmgk Not just drooling goatfuckers but Straight-Over-From-Central-Casting drooling goatfuckers. Like if you told them to put on Klan hoods they would've said "Hell YEAH, bro!"
Show threadVorsosMay 10, 2024
@GrimmReality “Now that it’s been correct once, we can use this obviously broken clock to tell time.”
Show threadLuka RubinjoniMay 7, 2024
@GrimmReality Don't forget dunce hats! Can't have a proper struggle session without a dunce hat.
Show threadErgonWolfMay 7, 2024
@GrimmReality "in loco parentis" indeed.
Show threadoldfartjmb says FREE PALESTINEMay 7, 2024

@GrimmReality

I'm with you Grimm! Completely agree.

But that was just about the same in the late 60s. Police riots. Kent State.

It seems that universities have learned nothing. At least nothing that stuck. So where do we go from here?

@djsundog

Show threadKevin LeecasterMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality
I expect you'd be clamoring for the president to lose their job if some nut with a gun had of started shooting at the protesters and there hadn't been security there to protect the students from that.
Show threadNosirrahSec 🏴‍☠️ guillotine enthusiastMay 8, 2024

@GreenFire @GrimmReality No one is buying your very obvious Israeli propaganda.

You're not even good at it. You just spam every thread available with your bullshit.

Show threadKevin LeecasterMay 8, 2024
@NosirrahSec @GrimmReality
Ah, it's the pro-terrorist troll dropping by again, hi.
Show threadAlexander The 1stMay 8, 2024

@GreenFire @GrimmReality A Heckler's Veto doesn't justify the security force having guns - there's no guarantee they'd use it against the heckler themself were they to start attempting a mass shooting at a protest.

You definitely wouldn't need *that* level of security either.

Show threadVirginia S. O'PossumMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality A lot of them are not lofty smart intellectuals, they're business administrators.
Show threadGrimm May 8, 2024
@VirginiaSOpossum Yup, anymore, good point.
Show threadShadowbottleMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality when was the last time you walked through the administrative parking lot of a university? It’s all luxury cars. They’re all corporate ghouls, what do you expect? This is what happens when you run institutions like a business.
Show threadGrimm May 8, 2024
@shadowbottle yeah, somebody else made this point and it is spot-on.
Show threadNosirrahSec 🏴‍☠️ guillotine enthusiastMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality UMass Amherst just sicced armed pigs on their students tonight, too.
Show threadAndrocatMay 8, 2024

@GrimmReality It's been quite a long while since "academia administrators" could be reliably identified as "intellectuals", in general.

But yeah, there are unfortunately plenty of usually white and usually male intellectuals who believe in very dark conspiracy theories.

Show threadStrypeyMay 9, 2024

@GrimmReality
> anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals who run major universities

That's not who runs universities anymore, and hasn't been for a decade or more. Graeber wrote about this back in 2014;

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class

Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class

David Graeber Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class 2014 See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ &...

The Anarchist Library
Show threadGrimm May 9, 2024
@strypey Yup, addressed already and acknowledged in the noted edit.
Show threadUgh (“ugh”)May 10, 2024
@GrimmReality ahem #FuckMBAs
Show threadA. RiveraMay 7, 2024
@GrimmReality As someone commented elsewhere, I can't wait for those development officers to start calling those new alumni for fundraising. . . .
Show threadJenniferMay 7, 2024
@GrimmReality brilliant!!!
Show threadDeusMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality The 2nd picture of her post (for Fedizens who aren't on FB).
Show threadJacinta Is.May 10, 2024
@Deus @GrimmReality wow, and thanks for sharing
Show threadgaryMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality red dot anxiety - we've heard of it #bofh
Show threadjordanMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality Ugh, I had snipers at my graduation too, because the odious Denny Hastert (who was Speaker of the House at the time) decided to attend
Show threadJo - pièce de résistanceMay 8, 2024
@jordan @GrimmReality Biden is doing commencement at Morehouse. I imagine having snipers everywhere will be loads of fun for all the Black men graduating, and to be used to PR Biden’s police crackdown policies on students & funding genocide.
Show threadjordanMay 8, 2024
@JoBlakely @GrimmReality I feel like if these folks can't attend events without militarizing academic spaces, then it would be better if they just stayed home
Show threadFibonacciMay 8, 2024
@GrimmReality I don't necessarily disagree with anyone in this thread, but I'll be the nerd who plays devil's advocate. When police departments receive threat intelligence that remotely resembles terrorism, they're authorized to send police marksmen to mitigate any threats. This includes any connection any person has to any designated terrorist group, to include the far-right ones.
Whether or not a marksman should have been sent is a matter of policy. While I think it's debatable whether or not a marksman was necessary at IU, I think it's safe to say that if you didn't have any connection to a domestic terrorist group, the marksman wasn't aiming at you. However, I can see that it is difficult to discern this as a protester. It's too easy to spin this into a story that doesn't fit the facts, so be careful out there.