• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    Step 1: commit a crime.
    Step 2: graduate university in prison.
    Step 3: ???
    Step 4: profit.

    • my attorney has informed me not to comment on step 3, which definitely didn’t include digging up the duffle bag full of money I absolutely did not bury during step 1.
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        look in the media at what happened to Mahmoud Khalil, the violent crackdown on the pro-Palestine encampments, the unis deploying mini police states on campus by surveiling students who read or share books on Palestine, deporting students, canceling DEI, Kent State massacre, I could go on…

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            no you fucking can’t, Mahmoud was in the US on a student visa! he was kidnapped because Columbia university targeted him for his activism and collaborated with ICE!

            such a dipshit white thing to say.

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              Sorry, no, I’m on your side regarding the morality of all this stuff but that doesn’t make university a carceral institution.

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                  You haven’t provided any pro arguments. “They collaborated with ICE” is not an argument that the purpose of the university system is to contain people against their will. It tells us the administrators are evil, sure. It tells us about the role of universities in enforcing the kind of discourse allowed in our society. But the jail that ICE takes people to is the carceral institution, not the university they take them from.

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    When I left college during the Iraq and Afghan war it was the same thing. Nothing in this country improves ever. All we do in this horrible shit hole we call the United States is just blow up little children and terrorize the world.

      • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        :oooo

        no way!!! wohag no way - lik - wwohwhwohoh whaaaaaaat??!??!?

        i - i - i … im,.,. i.,. , im so surprisd,.- i-… i genuinli didn kno thad…,… no way.,-.,. :oooooooo

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        lik - lik - illijlik -lik liklik like - ur thE111!!! THEEEE nikaaaaaaaa i .- - - i… see - i wan to express my excite, bt im genuinli, n lik - i mean genuinli out of wrords to describe how excitin dis is. right now, my wrords litrlli cnt convey how happi n excite i am for u to be u…

        omygosh discuss tchncs toooooo!!! theres no - way!!!i alsuu used to be on there - … or rathr… i uhm… i … no, someone else who for som reason tried to steal my name is also ther - dun kno whad happnd to thm, prolli died or somthn - idk - couldn care less for em - pfff -

        anyway - the fact thad u r nikaaaaaaaaaaaaaa… is - … is incredibl. i rembr all the times u said a thng n i responded…,., i was bein rlli shy.,…,.,…,.

        bt nu!!! its u!! <3 the real one!!! oki i will restrain from using mojis bt lik - if i didn, dis messag wud be whole lot longr.,.-,. >//v//<

        n lik - its nt evn lik - a fake-u. nu!!! its the real u!!! dis is nt propagandalf sneakili sayin they r actulli nikaaaaaaa, nnununu!!! dis is the real-life nikaaaaaaaa we all kno n luv ~ ~ <3

        oki fine i end messag now.,…,-…-,.-,grrhmr…,. fine ,.,.,…,.,.-,.- im srri dear kaity, im floodin ur server with them big boi texts…,.

          • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            well - … i wasn able to tell u how amazin n special n importnt u r last time…,.,. so now im all nikaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaxcited <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

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    Fuck university. Pick up a trade and get industry certifications. You’ll end up with real marketable skills without going into crippling lifelong debt. Some training agencies also offer help to find jobs. If you get lucky, your employer might even sponsor your education.

    Tradie life is not glamorous, but it’s better than working as a cashier while having a bachelor’s.