AKA I am writing a fucking essay on Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping in order to own my globpol professor

I am emailing it to him

Unlike Deng Xiaoping I do not consider myself mainly a pragmatist, i do consider myself a petty bitch however

to all of you who say it’s not worth it: it is to me. he called me a fucking bernie bro. he owned me so hard. I will own him back. have fun reading 20 pages of email bitch half of which are just literal excerpts from the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping and the Governance of China, if you ever unironically stan fukuyama in my presence again I will email you just the entirety of capital out of disgust. read theory fucker

  • 420clownpeen [they/them,any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 years ago

    Seems terminally poster-brained, but hey if you keep just hinged enough that there aren’t academic or career consequences for nothing. :shrug-outta-hecks:

    And hey, many great left theorists were terminal posters so who knows

    • Spike [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 years ago

      In every pol class there’s one student who does this. Just from personal experience I’ve seen a guy who would always bring every topic back to atheism, one who would bring every topic back to their personal ethnicity, and one who would ask questions about every single thing. The prof would have seen this many times by now, so its unlikely that anything bad happens, especially for a first year student.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          4 years ago

          Philosophy has a lot of open ended discussions, but I guess being like that is pretty much invited.

          Imo any of the women’s studies courses are much worse. I sat in on my friend’s women’s studies course, I forget if the whole thing was athletics focused or just that one lecture but there were at least three dudes who constantly had to get their opinions in and play devil’s advocate. It wasn’t even the first lecture, which probs means they’d been doing it for a while, which seems SO exhausting. Not just for the profs, but for those dudes too. Like how do you not tired of constantly doing that, especially since the tenured prof teaching the course has a well crafted response to everything you say ready to go, lmao.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 years ago

      Profs tend not to hold grudges about stuff like this over undergrads. If a grad student or a colleague did it, there might be career consequences, but with undergrads it mostly blends into the background noise. Unless you want a letter of rec from this person it probably won’t matter. They likely also aren’t doing the grading, and even if they are I doubt it would influence them much.

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    4 years ago

    lol he replied to it with a single sentence of “talk to me about it during office hours” i am going to send him capital volume three part three chapter thirteen bitch you thought i slighted fukuyama with productivity wages? I will send you the trpf motherfucker hows liberalism gonna solve that? liberalism contradicts it. you thought productivity wages was bad? motherfucker i am sparing you from the fucking technical spiel. I’ll fucking do it, I’ll give a pre-class lecture on the TRPF to anyone there, it’s actively fun for me. I will turn this class into whyesseff’s proletarian soapbox for calling me a fucking bernie bro and not reading my equivalent of a un letter. i will rain fire and brimstone upon you for owning me like that. i will tear down the ideology you perpetuate in front of your eyes. i will challenge all the liberalisms you reproduce. you had your chance to be spared from me being the absolute worst person in a classroom environment (within rules and regulations). im in full agitprop mode, get ready you nerd because i will outnerd you. i am a theory freak. my method of learning is jamming the documentation into my skull until it sticks. i will literally fucking offer to debate you live and then just read state and rev instead of actually arguing. i will dismantle bourgeois academia with my own two hands.

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    4 years ago

    this bitch is 5000 words and like 6 pages on a word doc i wrote it in like ten minutes it is extremely passive aggressive sent less go

      • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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        4 years ago

        sure just get really really mad and type stream of consciousness, then check grammar. a skill i have mastered for polisci papers.

        the compilation of evidence is the hard part. Write it like you’re lenin, lenin gets really mad and writes but also cleans it after and people love it

        also this is adhd hyperfocus i zoned out in class writing this lmao i just got so mad

        • WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          4 years ago

          It’d be a bit harder to work up that emotion for history, for long gone events, or historiography, for reviewing other works on long gone events :thinkin-lenin:

          I also got the problem that I can’t stand not having it be perfect as I write it, maybe I ought to dictate more, I’m fine with editing that

          But I think these are good tips, thanks :kim-salute:

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            4 years ago

            I Hemingway it, write drunk, edit sober. I understand my own stream of consciousness and come back later and turn it into real sentences and move stuff around so it flows better. It takes a lot longer than actually doing the writing.

          • WhyEssEff [she/her]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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            4 years ago

            fair but obligatory

            for history

            undemocratic collapse of the soviet union under mikhail gorbachev and subsequent neoliberalization

            • WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              4 years ago

              Hell yeah, that I would like to do a paper on. Right now it’s just a book report on the racial component of secession of the South, which is something I should be juiced up for, but I’m required to look through the book to find good quotes, so sadly I can’t just type a bunch down :yes-honey-left: