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Reddit discusses the Portland State University protests successfully getting PSU to pause their relationship with Boeing

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For context, the PSU student council and elected body has had a resolution calling for PSU to divest from Boeing and cut all relationships since 2021, which the administration has ignored. It is the ‘democratic’ will of the student to cut ties with Boeing but you wouldn’t know that by all the kvetching and moaning in these threads and on the PSU subreddit

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god the comments are pretty accurate though. you either have to choose between cutting ties with imperialist companies and working a poverty job because of it or selling out and living a life without much material hardship
these PSU students have their hearts in the right place
- There are many steps in between “poverty job” and making bombs and fighter jets. Those who flock to weapons companies are either lazy and/or fascists. Simple as.
  
  In America? Most high paying jobs are extremely close to the literal military, extremely violent financial/economic violence interally, or imperialism
  
  I have no idea why this comment has so many upvotes. This is not a dig on you personally at all, but straight up, no there isn’t any steps between poverty jobs and jobs that are directly tied to the MIC/ the energy sector. Most jobs outside of that is food service, retail, warehouse work, package delivery etc. even the trades are not safe from this since I worked as an HVAC tech and A LOT of shit is straight up made by DUPONT, Raytheon, 3M and their subsidiaries and I can’t imagine this isn’t the same with other trades. If you’re not doing these kind of jobs then what exactly are you doing that your able to not working for fascist and also making a good wage?
  I’m not trying to rant or anything but I could literally sit here and reply for days on this very subject.
- Mfw labor aristocrats become self-aware and embrace fascism
  
  I'm surrounded by them and trust me, they've always been incredibly self aware. They just don't show it except amongst other labor aristocrats because they feel comfortable and safe
  It's like how white people generally only show their racism around other white people and men their misogyny around other men
All /r/
<city_name>
subreddits are fascist congregations
- the r/portlandstate subreddit is even worse on this subject, at least on r/portland there was some pushback. Absolutely none in the PSU subreddit, all disparaging lib nonsense
Imagine being invested in Boeing given all the incidents in the last year
- PSU isn’t invested in Boeing, but the reverse is true. Boeing spends shitloads of money on student scholarships and internships, they recruit heavily from PSU.
  Chuds in the replies don’t seem to think that there’s any issue taking genocide money or an organization being a pipeline funneling kids into the war machine.
  LOL at the comment saying “yeah Boeing might be aiding a genocide but they also give weapons to Ukraine! Ever think about that?” as if giving weapons to Nazis offsets your genocide
  
  "Genocide money? But have you considered that a child from a poor family could be used as disingenuous argument fodder by a redditor?"
  I'm so glad these students get to decide if a student from a poor family can use those funds for a scholarship or grants. Where the fuck do you think Boeing's funds go?
  College is expensive enough without people pulling the rug from under the working class. Fuck the bourgeois activists and their trust funds.
  
  My fucking professor used that line of reasoning recently lmao. He's a utilitarian, so he thinks any good that comes from schools divesting in defense contractors has to be weighed by the bad, like less ability to fund Nazis in Ukraine and turn an entire generation of young men into pink mist or disabled/traumatized husks of their former selves.
  Just the biggest of brains in American universities folks.
This shit is so tiring. Fucking
s everywhere
- Their arrogance and condescending attitudes is the part that pisses me off the most. “Stupid Portland activist students are all idiots who don’t understand anything”
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