I am uncomfortable with how many times I read this as Plano rather than Plato. What would a university banning a city even mean?
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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No, it was Plato who was wrong.
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men."
– Plato, Republic book 1 (translated) circa 375 BCE.
(translated)
Why? Don't you trust us to read Attic Greek?
I only read Cellar Greek. Attic is to high brow for me.
Unexpected, I've never heard this joke before.
Also the cellar is where I keep my Hell-enic wine. It had a devilish flavor.
Easy to say. Good luck changing politics, the neo liberals have a deathgrip on the left options in politics, running as the plutocracy but the other parties are worse. Making the radicalized right planning of fixing elections, now with the help of russia and the us, an inevitability as they run as reform.
Nothing will break the population from the neo liberal's death grip, not short of a populist alternative, but they kill that in the cradle. Not even 2024 shook the confidence of the sheep in the party, as arrogant as ever they are busy being led to aggressively blame everyone else for their unwinnable strategies, especially blaming those that fought for a new deal of popular reform that could both win and restore the glory of our post war year prosperities. Across the west not just in the US, the US and UK are just the harbingers of the death of liberal democracy in all but name.
Wise men can't solve this, not disparately with the forces aligned against the common good.
When an ancient philosopher predating the birth of Jesus is too “woke” for your institution of higher learning, I have to question the educational value of said institution.
Texas has to reduce the input of Thomas Jefferson as an Enlightenment philosopher because he was too woke as a slaveowner.
Because he beefed with the church.
Beware the man with one book.
It’s Aggies, so no value there to begin with.
I guess that radical leftist alexander the great will be next, he had man lovers.
Famous lefty radical Plato
Gotta watch that newfangled philosophy - why don’t we just use the classics? /s
Cave wins again
You know you're winning in the "marketplace of ideas" when you have to literally ban the discussion, even the mere mention, of anything you oppose. Solid victory guys. Texas degrees aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
Gotta love that free speech absolutism.
A diploma from Texas A&M is worth less than the paper it's printed on.
Aka, Texas a&m is attempting to be one the right wing fascist schools approved by maga
I applied there in 2010 for undergrad and was offered to go there if I joined ROTC. I wrote back asking if I could not, since I objected to war and my offer was rescinded.
Plato: "Everything is a shadowy echo of its perfected nature. Even gender."
Ken Paxton: "Any teacher caught mentioning that last bit is fired."
Plato: "Man is a featherless biped"
A&M: "He's too dangerous to be left aloud"
Round here we gotta cure fer callin anodder man feadderless, hehehe...
Fuckin football team with a side hustle.
Texas. The One-Star State.
Now please ban all computers because of sexual preferences of Alan Turing.
Another day at Y'all Qaeda Texas or Oblast of Texas.
So they’re banning Plato, but is Socrates still OK?
:D
Wait till then find out about what the Spartans really did!
I would like to not exist in this reality any longer, please.
Lmao, Plato is like a major philosopher for right-wingers, there's literally a propaganda channel named after it.
So dumb
Just like A&M graduates!
/jk
I hope college football fans start bringing signs with Plato quotes to Texas A&M games.
Conservatives want to converse the stupidity they had at birth.
Takes ass
But will they keep Shakespeare as he is literally the only person to write anything in English?
I already despised Texas A&M for ruining the jalapeño pepper. Now we get further dumbassery.
When will the mandatory public book burnings begin?
Snowflakes gonna snowflake. lol
From the article:
The regents used AI analysis software to audit syllabi for unapproved content. Thanks to this rude mech, 200 courses have been cancelled, stripped of core curricular credit value, or forced into revision.
Gotta love how AI is calling the shots in so many sectors these days. It makes for the perfect scapegoat. "Well the AI said so" is not a valid response in my mind, but those in charge clearly disagree. I've also read of situations where an AI will be 'in charge' but there will be a human on site to help out (or likely more accurately--take the fall when the AI fucks up)
Someone should start writing Texas “Aggie” jokes!
Cause they’s so dang stupid!
Plato is pretty gay.
Plato has never struck me as a particularly happy person.