@Mcd5000Michael@kimtfiu@LGBTQPete I’m using some hyperbole here, to be fair, but doubling down on his idea after many people patiently and thoughtfully pointed out the problems in the first post was quite disheartening! The folks in his office are missing the point too, unfortunately: https://t.co/qJ8IhlyKtW
@James_R1986 @isamovskiy @tl_reeve@ChrisMurphyCT Cool! They’re welcome! Happy to fight by their sides, provided they accept the need for reproductive rights and gender affirming care and the equality of all humans, regardless of their race/color/heritage/ethnicity, religion, marital status, gender identity, or sexuality!
@kimtfiu@Mcd5000Michael@LGBTQPete It’s really unfortunate! Either he’s genuinely naive or he’s going to become another Sinema or Lieberman going “I didn’t leave the Democrats, they left me, I’m a principled Republican now”
@Ericpothier4 @beedeebrave @StrikeDebt I’ve seen them support many strikes, not even just strikes related to student loan debt specifically or even higher education generally? “Go to a random campus, uninvited or no” is not how support works.
@mcmansionhell You are absolutely not overreacting, this is embarrassing behaviour from NYT (though they’re so far past being able to experience embarrassment, tbh)
This is, like, Zara/Urban Outfitters-tier casual creative IP theft, and it’s appalling
@Ericpothier4 @beedeebrave @StrikeDebt The larger issue: student fees shouldn’t be paying for overpriced facilities/food service contracts, athletics, plum jobs for board members. States need to fund their universities again instead of preying on student loan debt, too. And single payer healthcare to reduce t burden.
@Ericpothier4 @beedeebrave @StrikeDebt Your loathed “tenured professors” make up a minority; 75% of professors earn far less. Some tenured faculty have indeed stood beside their underpaid colleagues, as well as TAs, RAs, and underpaid service workers. The overpaid presidents, VPs, coaches, consultants… not so much!
@Ericpothier4 @beedeebrave @StrikeDebt Did you bother to read the link? I don’t think you did. The professors aren’t even being paid enough to pay off their own student loan debt (and fun fact: adjuncts often don’t qualify for PSLF). Professors and students alike are increasingly relying on gig work, even food banks.
@Ericpothier4 @beedeebrave @StrikeDebt College costs are rising partly bc there’s no social safety net. Student fees pay for healthcare (inc mental) &disability support, needs rise every year. There’s also overspending on admin/coach salaries. Student loan debt subsidizes professional sports AND health ins. industry.
@Ericpothier4 @beedeebrave @StrikeDebt For tenure track faculty, perhaps. But 75% of faculty are non-tenure track, and 50% are classed as “part time” because they’re only paid for classroom hours, not grading/prep/student support. No job security and usually no benefits, just $3500 a semester. https://t.co/BjN0BJxLJp
@InternetHippo@wideofthepost Murphy knows this, he’s just setting up to claim the Sinema mantle of rotating villain for 2024, likely to be followed by a full-on Democrat to Republican “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me” heel turn so he can try and Lieberman his way into a 2028 run. As is tradition.
@Mcd5000Michael@kimtfiu@LGBTQPete Murphy posted a poll asking “Democrats should sacrifice ‘cultural issues’ to win ‘social conservatives’ who might secretly be ‘populists’ on economic issues y/n?” This was roundly rejected, now he’s doubling down on “throw abortion and LGBTQ rights under bus to (maybe) please Rs”
@ChrisMurphyCT WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU THINK THOSE CONSTITUENCIES WILL WANT IN EXCHANGE, CHRIS
WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU THINK THE PRICE WILL BE
I guess you know that you won’t be the one paying it, which is why you don’t seem to care, or even to acknowledge there IS A PRICE
THE PRICE IS CIVIL RIGHTS
@isamovskiy @tl_reeve@ChrisMurphyCT The “coalition” Murphy proposes would try to take away the rights of ppl social conservatives deem evil. Why would women, queer and trans folks, immigrants, POC, and all the others conservative Christians hate *want* to add to those “numbers” and lose what rights they have left?