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2025-09-16 20:30:20

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

georgetakei@universeodon.com

Education is the enemy of fascism.

2025-09-16 20:33:31

lemgandi

lemgandi@mastodon.social

@georgetakei

Yeah! My Daddy didn't go to college, and he's doin' fine in prison!

2025-09-16 20:35:00

calsnoboarder

calsnoboarder@universeodon.com

@georgetakei He did go to college. Many of them... just his last visit didn't end well.

2025-09-16 20:37:45

Darwin Woodka

darwinwoodka@mastodon.social

@georgetakei

Laura Looney is a fucking moron

2025-09-16 20:40:39

Martin Seeger

masek@infosec.exchange

@georgetakei Wow, someone is pushing the self-destruct button really hard.

2025-09-16 20:44:37

JanKusanagi

jankusanagi@mastodon.sdf.org

@georgetakei absolute truth

2025-09-16 20:46:25

cynthia rose is desirable

cynthiarose@sfba.social

@georgetakei
Whoa lots to unpack here:
1. He did go to college—lots of them—he died at a college—but he didn’t attend college classes to further his education—make that distinction please
2. Laura. Are you suggesting that being murdered is the epitome of success now? Because that’s what it sounds like, and holy shit.

2025-09-16 21:01:15

virkon

virkon42@det.social

@georgetakei that is a weird thing to say

2025-09-16 21:04:41

Dean Johnson

dtj@mast.hpc.social

@georgetakei They’d prefer a neo-feudal system catering to oligarchs.

2025-09-16 21:05:55

Karsten Johansson

ksaj@infosec.exchange

@georgetakei It's pretty sad when a country's federal government is advocating their people to not bother with school.

I guess it's too much of an "expense."

2025-09-16 21:29:06

FurballsNHairballs

ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social

@georgetakei
They do.hate smart people

2025-09-16 21:29:46

Richard Ash

lovegraphs@mastodon.social

@georgetakei "no your heart surgeon didn't study medicine, instead he just confidently states things he reckons. So we figured he'd be able to do the operation"

2025-09-16 21:35:57

Richard R Lee

InfoMgmtExec@mastodon.social

#ShitForBrains in #Trumpistan.
@georgetakei

2025-09-16 21:46:26

Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑

rgulick@social.coop

@georgetakei

As Trump said: "Smart people don't like me."

2025-09-16 21:50:02

Nemethon

nemethon@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Republicans - people who wear lack of education and lack of intelligence as if it were some kind of medal.

2025-09-16 22:01:39

stony kark

aapis@mastodon.world

@georgetakei it’s a lie anyways. Kirk did, famously, go to college. He dropped out to start toilet paper USA because people didn’t like his racist rants at school.

2025-09-16 22:19:33

Mark Koek

mkoek@mastodon.nl

@georgetakei I can’t help wondering what the USA’s education system teaches kids in high school - I mean, you shouldn’t have to go to university to learn about science or history

2025-09-16 22:19:47

Nancy

Nancy777@mastodon.social

@georgetakei History shows us that every authoritarian regime fears education because an informed society is harder to control. Universities are not perfect, but they are vital for democracy.

2025-09-16 22:34:36

a fish named dog ✡️♾️

FishNamedDog@mastodon.social

@georgetakei Charlie Kirk got shot, Laura. Just sayin'.

2025-09-16 22:46:30

Casper 👻

caspercdn@mstdn.social

@georgetakei
Edjamakayshun is overrated

2025-09-16 22:49:46

Kierkmas, merry-ish

Kierkegaanks@beige.party

@georgetakei only monks went to uni in the dark ages

2025-09-16 22:50:23

Court Cantrell prefers not to

courtcan@mastodon.social

@georgetakei They do "love the poorly educated."

2025-09-16 23:00:13

decapitae

decapitae@mastodon.social

@georgetakei 🖖

2025-09-16 23:01:07

lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place

@georgetakei they're trying to get from 1 to 100 spm (suckers per minute)

2025-09-16 23:03:44

Stephen Elliott~Buckley

Maxfieldripken@mastodon.social

@georgetakei

Yeah, 54% of American adults read at the grade 6 level or lower.

This affects critical thinking, moral philosophy, and media analysis skills.

Thanks Reagan.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics

#literacy #criticalthinking #education #k12 #civilization #neofeudalism #democracy #fascism #serfs

2025-09-16 23:11:56

Robin Barton

Robo105@mastodon.social

@georgetakei Now there is an advertising line

2025-09-16 23:16:56

SpaceLifeForm

SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange

@georgetakei

It is amazing how far the education system has fallen.

I recall learning History, Science, and Civics in K-12.

Yeah, I am old.

2025-09-16 23:18:53

Martin Rust

martinrust@infosec.exchange

For the same reason #Musk wants to blow up #Wikipedia
@georgetakei

2025-09-16 23:20:50

Emilio ʕ̡̢̡ʘ̅͟͜͡ʘ̲̅ʔ̢̡̢

privateblack@mastodon.social

@georgetakei she too dumb

2025-09-16 23:37:36

Yes I'm Antifa. Why Aren't U?

MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social

A gold-rimmed lamp behind Trump's head appears to give him demon horns.

@georgetakei
The reason #Republicans and #Religion are tied at the hip is b/c both require unquestioned loyalty and ignorance (lack of education) to maintain control over their followers. 🤔 #BlindFaith

2025-09-16 23:47:40

Al & Val's Modern Homesteading

alandvalonline@mastodon.social

@georgetakei And look at him now! Be dumb. Be right wing. Be like charlie.

2025-09-16 23:50:23

Mammut

matt_1060@mastodon.social

@georgetakei thank goodness that evil people are stupid.

2025-09-16 23:56:52

JimJoe

JimJoe@mastodon.social

@georgetakei I love math, I love physics. I appreciate that others love to study art, languages and business. Someone ask her what her vision of America is, and how no higher education helps her achieve that vision. Anyone can say crap. But we should hold them accountable. Simply ask why and how does this change contribute to making America great again? Please journalists, stop walking about after the sound bite.

2025-09-17 00:02:49

Big Red Freedom Train

Bazza53@mastodon.social

@georgetakei
Yes perhaps a world of critical
thinkers would be the death knell for
the Right?
“They try to control your minds.
They tell you we’re baddies.
And you believe them.
Just shows how sad life is.
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up wage slaves.”
‘Revolutionary Days.’
The Big Red Freedom Train.

2025-09-17 00:02:54

MegatronicThronBanks

megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social

@georgetakei

That one message is the single most important.

2025-09-17 00:17:31

Peter Riley

peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

@georgetakei

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
- Joni Mitchell

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-bigger-threat-to-books-than-bans-is-distribution.php

#booksofMastodon

2025-09-17 00:28:02

Hot Dog Water

GGMcBG@mstdn.plus

@georgetakei

Well. He did...

2025-09-17 00:39:03

Ilka 🌐

Ilka4You@mastodon.social

@georgetakei exactly! 🤘

2025-09-17 01:04:26

Elfbiter

elfbiter@mastodontti.fi

@georgetakei Keeping college expensive also guarantees that peoiple remain uneducated.

2025-09-17 01:18:19

bouriquet

bouriquet@mastodon.social

@georgetakei What about Trump University? I’d bet if resurrected they’d put together a curriculum of lies, deception and denial.

2025-09-17 02:12:31

Yawni 🏳️‍🌈▲

YawnEMIT@bark.lgbt

@georgetakei And it shows. German news outlets felt the need to talk about that shitbag with the lethal lead poisoning. From what I was forced to learn about him, it seems to me that he even slept through elementray school and made Ralph Wiggum seem smart.

Killing him was wrong on a moral level. But I won't shed a tear.

2025-09-17 02:20:33

Face Thumb

chrisp@cyberplace.social

@georgetakei Laura Loomed who went to college says you don't need to go to college

2025-09-17 03:16:01

six_grandfathers_mountain

six_grandfathers_mountain@mastodon.social

Just in New York and California, Harris was off Biden's totals by almost 3 million votes. And most of that was not vote-switching. In New York, Harris was off by about 900,000 votes, but Trump only gained about 200,000 from his 2020 total. In California, <br />Harris got roughly 1.9 million fewer votes than Biden, but Trump only got about 60,000 more. Often turnout is lower outside of the states that get most of the political attention. This election saw the most political advertising dollars in the smallest <br />field of states. Overall in this election, turnout was just slightly lower than in 2020 at about 63.8%, the second highest in the last 100 years. This year, three of the top turnout states were those formerly Blue Wall states of Wisconsin, Michigan and <br />Pennsylvania. Minnesota, Virginia and New Hampshire were also within 5 points and had been considered potentially competitive states. The lowest turnout rates were in Hawaii, Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, New York, <br />Indiana and Alabama — all noncompetitive states, either very red or very blue.

@georgetakei

RE
#education is the enemy of #fascism

We can say..... #votingrights and #VOTING is the next big thing

#midterms #midterms2026 #registeredvoters

Why are so many US citizens not registered?

And even if a #registered #voter many don't vote

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-s1-5213810/2024-presidential-election-popular-vote-trump-kamala-harris

2025-09-17 03:31:04

mastodonphan HAS MOVED

mast0d0nphan@mastodon.social

@georgetakei I don't think "Charlie Kirk didn't go to college" is the flex she thinks it is. I'm sure if he got a college education he would have had less chances of getting an (in)voluntary neck piercing.

2025-09-17 03:52:34

Bradley Farless

bradley_farless@mastodon.social

@georgetakei It's because universities don't teach skills that lead to high paying jobs anymore, and being able to feed your family is important to most people. Or being able to afford to start a family.

2025-09-17 04:04:43

EndicottRoad59

EndicottAuthor@mastodon.social

@georgetakei Four years of college gave me a degree as well as an entirely different perspective on life.

2025-09-17 04:28:37

👊🇺🇸🔥

Avitus@ioc.exchange

@georgetakei Republicans want the electorate as uneducated as possible so they can turn us into serfs that only have a Bible "education".

2025-09-17 04:36:26

Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

Blort@social.tchncs.de

@georgetakei
I don't think "Charlie Kirk didn't go to college." is quite the aspirational flex Loomer thinks it is...

2025-09-17 05:05:20

Sordid Amok!

SordidAmok@mastodon.social

@georgetakei How did that work out for Charlie?

2025-09-17 08:54:49

Chuck

crdfilm@mastodon.social

@georgetakei Like I always say, the motto of the Right is “Keep them poor, sick and stupid.” It’s the only way to control a population.

2025-09-17 08:56:55

Okuna

Okuna@social.tchncs.de

@georgetakei where would have gone to spread his lies, if there would have been no colleges?

2025-09-17 09:34:22

Thomas Wassermann

Thomas_Wassermann@mastodon.social

@georgetakei

If you look at the drivers in the background, e.g. the heritage foundation, lawyers, ... then education alone does not seem to be a guarantee for a useful character.

2025-09-17 09:37:09

JMcD

McD1979@mastodon.social

@georgetakei It seems to me that one of the biggest issues in our society is that so many of people take anecdotal evidence and think it applies to the data set as a whole. We need to teach statistical methodology in schools.

But, of course, we can’t do that because too many people would say “I never took statistics in school and I turned out just fine.” 🤦‍♂️

2025-09-17 10:57:02

Dushyant99

Dushyant99@mastodon.social

@georgetakei https://mahashreetech.in/2025/09/17/nasas-x-59-quesst-the-fastest-plane-redefining-supersonic-travel/

2025-09-17 14:02:51

Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon

Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot

@georgetakei

I thought Kirk had gone to college, he just didn't survive it....

2025-09-17 14:39:49

James

James@beige.party

@georgetakei

College graduates on average live eleven years longer than non- grads.
But you spend six of those years working on your masters and doctorate.

https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/us-college-graduates-live-average-11-years-longer-those-who

2025-09-17 14:43:22

Landstay

stephenmccann@mstdn.party

@georgetakei It's the upside down world of the Republicans where being smart is actually the dumb thing to do. Being dumb is the smart thing to do. Like their argument that the problem with the economy is that the wealthy don't have enough money, and poor people have too much money.

2025-09-17 16:10:30

Jeff Grigg

JeffGrigg@mastodon.social

@georgetakei

They have completely abandoned rationality. (And it's not a recent change. 🙄 )

"Mr. X is DEAD; killed."

"Mr. X didn't do Y."

"Therefore, you should not do Y.
NOBODY should do Y."

…

Ummm…
Even if you thought correlation was related to causation, wouldn't you recommend doing the opposite?

2025-09-18 22:35:09

PaulNickson 🕊️🎛️🎼

PaulNickson@mastodon.social

@georgetakei ‘Charlie Kirk didn’t go to college’ - yeah right, and look what happened to him.