[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by evollove

No. Ideologically entrenched Academia is merely annoying and unfortunate. (I left a place called Antioch College after exactly one semester for that very reason.)

Living among homicidal neo-Nazis and their apologists is the real hellhole..

kissinger famously said (im paraphrasing) the reason academic fights are so vicious is because the stakes are so low

and yeah the academic casualty count is low, but it’s still a hellhole if your livelihood depends on it. and who’s afraid of virginia woolf?

but you’re right— the problem is now we have a lunatic in charge of the asylum who is applying low-stakes tactics to such high-stakes situations as the future of liberal democracies or global thermonuclear war. it’s a fucking disgrace.

the other stuff you wrote and i’m not quoting is embarrassing and goes against the point you’re trying to make, but i understand the rage and what it does to a brain. you likely need to sleep it off. what ilducio said wasn’t against you since you’re not a consie (conservative, i’m guessing) so... yeah.

don’t engage a crazy or you might become one.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

and academia is indeed an ideological hellhole which is why i quit it early and often. last discussion i had on the new blade runner with a professor friend she was foaming at the mouth and banging at the table with a fist screaming “weinstein”.

Yes. This. Academia is its own kind of hell, no question. If you don’t feel that way, I daresay you’re either a minion of Satan or you haven’t experienced academia.

[Rob Instigator]

everything is sux. there is no perfection. at least academia doesn't send thousands to their deaths to protect three corporations oil fields.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

everything is sux. there is no perfection. at least academia doesn't send thousands to their deaths to protect three corporations oil fields.

no, seriously, academia is a special kind of hell

speaking of oil fields, check this shit out

White House seeks 72 percent cut to clean energy research, underscoring administration’s preference for fossil fuels

[ilduclo]

Originally Posted by evollove

Was this directed at me?

certainly not. was criticizing those who demand free speech zones to air their neo Nazi beliefs. Because, if they had their ways, there certainly would be no free speech

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

far left wing and far right wing are equally fascistic and intractable. the people that matter are the 98% that sit in the middle of that Bell Curve.

Well... I can agree with the first sentence. The second? I doubt 98% of all people MATTER — sounds like way too big of a percentage to me. The real point, though, is this: where in today's main public "debate" is this "far left wing"? Obviously it's not CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times or The Washington Post. It's not even Bill Maher. Shit, it's not even Noam Chomsky (not that he's anywhere to be seen on media outlets like the ones I just mentioned). So, for purposes of discussing the Trumpocalyptic context in which we live, it's rather irrelevant... Unless, of course, one's willing to be sucked into the pathological vortexes of horseshit that are Faux News AND Schunk's bunk.

[The Soup Nazi]

Train Carrying Republican Lawmakers to Retreat Crashes Into Garbage Truck

"This is proving to be extraordinarily hard work", a first responder said. "I hadn't noticed before, but garbage looks remarkably like Republican lawmakers. It's pretty difficult to tell a real live turd from one of these fuckers".

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

ilducio and soupnazi are being goofy which this being the internet is their prerogative i guess

 

[ilduclo]

perogative? my perogi, rather

 

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

How about that? My rational arguments reduced evollove to that! Another head on my trophy wall!

aaaand this is what your petty drunken self is really about behind the syntax, Q.E.D.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

The stakes seem quite high to me, as the integrity, quality and future of Western academia are at stake. If the schools are now turning out ideologically programmed robots, who's going to restore academic rigor, creativity and objectivity?



I don't know how crazy I am, as I've already indicated that Defending Rights and Dissent raised the alarm on CVE while Obama was still in office, and it alarmed me as well as it seems to imply, if not guilt by association, then suspicion by association. I oppose both CVE and the Muslim Registry for the same Constitutional reason.

 

[evollove]

I was worried I went too far, but anyone who matters seems to get I was demonstrating I'm not PC or mindlessly virtue signaling.

Still, apologies to any mentally handicapped homosexuals I may have upset. Please know that should push come to shove, I got your back.

[ilduclo]

something I'd like to add, certainly don't need any internecine rancor. All oppo to the right wing is acceptable.

[The Soup Nazi]

David Byrne Radio Presents: The Beautiful Shitholes

 

The Beautiful Shitholes

I assume I don't have to explain where the shithole reference came from.

Here's a playlist that gives just the smallest sample of the depth and range of creativity that continues to pour out of the countries in Africa and the Caribbean. It is undeniable. Can music help us empathize with its makers?

For me, Trump is not the issue. We know and have known for a long time that he is racist. That is a fact, borne out by plenty of evidence. It's not news — we know what he is.

What is truly disturbing is the Republicans who go along with this person. Their behavior makes them complicit and the same as he is... exactly the same, no difference. Remember that come voting time.

The swells in Davos too — who are happy to get rich off Trump's policies and are more than fine supporting a racist. None of them has risen to condemn his racism and to say that this man does not represent our values as human beings.

Got that off my chest, now maybe I can listen to some music.

Enjoy.

David Byrne

(Click on the link above to listen)

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

no, seriously, academia is a special kind of hell

Yep. Still right there with you on this.

[evollove]

Fine. But can we agree there are bigger fish to fry?

I'll make a deal: let's first work together to purge our country of right-wing killers, and then I'll do what I can to solve the problem of snowflake students and wussy administrators.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by evollove

Fine. But can we agree there are bigger fish to fry?

I'll make a deal: let's first work together to purge our country of right-wing killers, and then I'll do what I can to solve the problem of snowflake students and wussy administrators.

haa haaa haaa

haaa haaaa haaaa haaaa

yeah

[Rob Instigator]

academia, like any field, has it's hells and it's heavens.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

academia, like any field, has it's hells and it's heavens.

* its and * its

BOOM! You’ve been academiated! Welcome to hell!

[The Soup Nazi]