wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 35mAnd colleges have cops so cops don’t abuse students. It is not a stable or sane system. 000
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 35mHaving tame police who won’t harass paying students is why these police forces exist in the first place. Hospitals also create police forces in cities where the cops keep abusing and killing patients in distress. Ports have cops so the cops won’t steal shipments. 100
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 38mThe net gain is that the local cops don’t spend all their time on campus harassing female and minority students because the campus it out of their jurisdiction. The irony of campus policing is that it evolved to keep the regular police off campus, not to protect the students. 100
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 51mEducation moved from civic socialization to industrial training. So, we get populations who can do equations well but don’t understand why we it’s bad to put “A Boss” in charge of everything. 010
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 53mSocial media giving everyone a voice ended up drowning out the people worth listening to. 040
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 55mThe purpose of rush and hazing is to filter out those who will not go along with abuse. Men who will gleefully abuse their own and those who will submit to abuse for status pairing up to abuse others. Fraternities screen for decent people and never let them through the door. 011
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 1hThe media switched from hiring the best local reporters to recruiting from among their interns decades ago. So, we lost the voices of the poor and middle class in favor of kids who can afford to live in NYC or DC for two years with no pay. And these rich kids have no fight in them. 052
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 8hMelville is the master. Moby Dick gives you the ship gossip, the sailing lore, and the whale lore. 120
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 8hMy immediate assumption was that these players had been involved in sexual assaults in their own community. 000
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 8hDietrich. I love that stupid violent man-child. Runners up are Jester and Goliath. I love their growing irritation that the crowd doesn’t get that they were hired to play the heel and people keep treating them like actual villains. 010
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9hI mean, “this remote town of 1,000 has the kind of urban infrastructure that you gotta hit half a million to see in the U.S.” 060
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9hWe could also break up local family monopolies, invest in rural infrastructure and transit, and make it so rural America wasn’t the cities’ impoverished shadow. Been to towns in Europe and Asia that the locals call “rural”, but have tower block apartments, bus lanes, and an urban main street. 2151
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9hI’m sure its another out of their depth techie. They need to hire some senior comms manager from Ford or IBM or such who can parent them into keeping their mouths shut in public. 010
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 9hI feel like if I say what I felt, I’d earn the ban. But it is worrying that this site’s mods felt otherwise. 020
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 10hBehind the Bastards podcast. He was nominated for an Emmy, asked any of his fans in the academy to vote for him, and they kicked him for a day. They are knee-jerk banning and making up rules against people with national platforms. They need to hire a PR staff. 160
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 10hI have never encountered a bigger set of loser mods than this site hires. They suspended Robert Evans yesterday too. 1164
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 10hHe said that a cartoon anvil should fall on the heads of two podcasters doing rape apology. 110
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 10hBannon’s money comes from Seinfeld. He was a major investor getting it off the ground. 000
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 10hIf they were at the execution, they are probably in crisis. Witnessing the execution goes badly for a lot of victims‘ families. It’s highly traumatizing, and no one in the process prepares them for it. Executions for the politicians and the judges. Everyone else suffers. 141
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 10hWe need to figure out a way to deal with Parent Panic. Surveillance cameras to drug laws to three strike laws to kids who can’t walk down the block until they hit 16. All are fiercely protected by white parents because they “protect“ their children. That’s fucking up the children too. 140
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 10hA fun fact is that a lot of nations drug laws are connected to treaties with the U.S. We pushed the drug war internationally by tying it to trade and defense treaties. Probably easier to unwind than ever these days, but that’s why drug reform is off the table across the world. 150
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 11hNever said any of that, so gonna block you rather than let you continue to grandstand. 000
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 11hCeline, Pound, Yeats… The frame you are using where people must “plead” for an artist to find their work interesting is a very modern one. “Great writer. Glad he died screaming.” was the old ways. 100
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 12hThey want Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, to have written the plays. 020
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 12hMishima: A Life In Four Parts is the best way to approach him, and a major theme was how compartmentalized the man was.en.wikipedia.orgMishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Wikipedia 070
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 12hOh, he did fascist art too. It’s just that the literary works he is most known for do not foreground fascist themes. 250
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 12hThe Shakespeare thing is 100 percent English upper class revulsion at the idea that their nation’s most revered artist was a commoner. They need to “rescue” the work to feel better about themselves. 172
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 12hI wouldn’t tell a child to read him, but he’s one of those fascist artists who just did regular art while being fascist.en.wikipedia.orgConfessions of a Mask - Wikipedia 1150
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 12hThey throw a lot of characters at you who will only make sense 80 hours later. 010
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 13hThey are a unique danger to the community in the way that all organized criminal organizations are unique dangers. 0100
Reposted by wishdaCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15hPeople forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version. 523584846
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14hThe Black and Latino refugees from flooded Los Angeles become a ravening mob under the leader of a charismatic gang leader. The heroic white small-towners in the mountains mix up their own chemical weapons and kill all of them. This is written as heroic and necessary to preserve civilization. 100
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14hHe was very popular in the U.S. in the 80s. Like, Danielle Steele, Tom Clancy, and Stephen King level ubiquitous in supermarket book racks. Fell off at some point, but he was a name here once too. 010
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14hAt this point, start using ALE laws to target and shut down the universities themselves as ”nuisance businesses” if they can’t control the frats. Capone their asses. 1301
Reposted by wishdaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16hI spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.thecut.comThe Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual ViolenceThe “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail. 12860323
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14hWe don‘t have streaming numbers. They are secret. The practice of advertising something as “Number 1” while refusing to publicly reveal the actual numbers is already baked in. Easy to game that, and most likely how some online talent rose to prominence in the first place. 100
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14hAnd that’s not even counting the protective embrace of the university itself. 030
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14hThey are a permission structure attached to a donor network, national organization, and criminal/civil defense fund. 130
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 15h“I visited Cold Springs Harbor, met Watson, and had the worst professional experience of my life” stories are a hallmark of working anywhere near genetics research. 010
Reposted by wishdaRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026James Watson was only notable as a racist, homophobe, misogynist, fatphobic bigot, and close friend of Jeffrey Epstein well after his incarceration for child sex crimes and registration as a child sex offender www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... 8402118
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 15hA massive issue the GOP has is that they skipped the overwhelming propaganda prologue to the war, because they were convinced it would be over in a week. Now, they are trying to do a pre-war fear and sacrifice push after the war is nearly lost. 071
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 15hThey are full-on leaning into the already present cult practices present in Silicon Valley tech. 000
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 15hThe result has been the strangling of democracy, and the ongoing destruction of the economic conditions that sustain the middle class. Maybe making a group whose chief feature is the pathological fear of direct verbal conflict into the heart of a political party was a bad idea. 000
wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 15hThe white American middle class barely existed in 1900, when the labor, suffragist, and early civil rights movements were already in the march. And Bill Clinton forcibly severed the ties to those forces to center the white middle class as the heart, soul, and voice of the party. 100
Reposted by wishdaRaj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 07/01/2026As someone with multiple history degrees, this particular period sure is fascinating for its distinct lack of engagement and action despite the increased ability to act and reduction of personal risk comparatively with other times its been needed and happened. "But what more can we do?"...Right... 3282
