The very first conference talk I’m attending is about how to “help students survive and embrace DEI under fascism.”
And this is what I woke up at the ungodly hour of 7 am.
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You had to be at the conference talk at 7:00 am or wake up at 7:00 am? Because those are different things, ranging from when you just are on a voice call, a videocall with the camera, or you have to be in the same room with others.
I’m sorry you’re not a morning person.
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I woke up at 7 to be at a panel (as a listener) at 8. Because of my intense advocacy, we only do in-person at this point. But yes, I’m mega crabby at this time of day especially since the very first talk unleashed the non-binary, they/them, open borders, fascism is here insanity. I should have stayed in bed.
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Think of it as a fantasy convention, with costumed characters and stuff. It’ll make more sense that way. Seminars on “How to Resist Assimilation by the Borg” and “Vampire Slaying 101”.
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Clarissa
That is not just a bun fight in the ivory towers of academe. Through much of my life; the GDP’s of Canada and America closely followed and paralleled each other, which is to be expected given the level of trade between each other. Now, thanks to the wise energy policies of Turdo the Younger, the Democratic Republic of Canuckistan’s CDP is about half that of the USA and dropping. The argument between meritocracy and DEI is for all the marbles, take no prisoners ;-D
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I know, believe me, I’d never suspect you of anything bad. We are all in the same boat here but hoping for things to improve.
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Well, fascism according to Mussolini, was to make Italy great again by restoring the lost glory of Rome.
Trump’s most interesting pick is Musk, a product of the gold rush, which would seem to be about restoring the glory of the gilded age.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witwatersrand_Gold_Rush
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