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[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Betsycashmoney ‘normal’ HoF-level player whose celebrity outstripped his excellent play. imagine Iverson if he’d married Janet Jackson

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@dontfallforem @dylanmatt He is not *doing* anything, lol. His campaign website is *saying* things that he personally declined to personally say when directly asked in a debate less than 6 months ago. A campaign saying something that the candidate himself obviously doesn’t believe isn’t worth much.

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@dylanmatt Impossible to read that as a true personal change of heart, & if elected there’s nada to hold him to positions he personally disagrees with, esp as Dem leadership remains mostly pro-Israel. Unfair to ask voters to throw out object permanence here.

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@dylanmatt Check the specifics. Wiener twice led campaigns to fire academics for pro-Palestine speech in ‘24, & introduced a bills in CA Senate for the same. In Jan ‘26 at a debate he refused to answer if he thought Gaza was a genocide. His campaign’s “pro-Palestine” stuff was up next day.

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@nikicaga Not even ‘25. The debate wherein he refused to answer if he thought there was a genocide committed in Gaza was 1/12/26. Very next day his campaign website says yes it was. Impossible not to be cynical of that

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation by “resist logic of capitalism”, I simply mean the university had until recently mostly maintained its pre-capitalist guildlike masters-and-apprentices system, instead of the in-progress shift towards a capitalist mode of production (of specialized labor aka “human capital”)

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation thank you for reading!!

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation While most American universities are not temporally pre-capitalist, they certainly modeled themselves after the medieval-origin European unis. It’s one of the few institutions in American society that had at all resisted the logic of capitalism until the last couple decades.

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation So when I defend professors— I am thinking of a chemistry professor hired only to teach, whom chooses to teach & make far less salary than he could certainly make in industry nearby. Those with doctorates in the humanities usually don’t even have that option.

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation The rest, much more numerous, are hired to do nothing but teach— teaching increasingly large classes of undergraduates to benefit the university bottom line— and are not afforded nearly the same salaries, protections, privileges, etc., as we usually think professors as having.

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation We are not arguing about the source of revolutionary power, though. We are arguing class status under capitalism, which is determined solely by relation to means of production, and professors categorically don’t own ‘em

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation For another, “potential for capital accumulation” is 1) only arguable for professors in STEM and a limited few other fields, not the humanities, and (2) “potential” is just that! Potential! Nothing more!

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation A ridiculous assertion. For one, the majority of professors (here, anyways) are adjuncts or “teaching faculty”, who have none of the benefits or any particular potential for capital accumulation!

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@Steven1550452 @redf0undation the hell are you talking about? elon owns big shares of companies valued at comical levels! he is the definition of bourgeoisie! what goddamn Marx are you guys reading!

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@LabJacobite Chicago’s finances have long been in trouble due to public unions pensions rising exponentially, not unlike UK triple lock but worse (& since the 80s). Chicago’s economy is the size of Switzerland’s, 20% larger than London’s… and still beggared by this. it is not good.

[don keychoatey @mrdxolo]

@LabJacobite the most powerful US public sector unions are policemen (& thus v reactionary). in chicago, pubsec unions have long been vehicles of graft & rent-seeking. the most upstanding Chicago public union (teachers’) won the mayorship & promptly ruined the city finances horrifically