It’s so hard to figure out why conservative students aren’t more popular on campus https://t.co/IblHoCwLK8
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) January 2, 2022
Of course, they’ve been ‘discovering’ this One Weird Trick ever since the 1950s (if not earlier), and for some reason, it never seems to work out as they expected:
“Are you a teacher here?”
“What’s your major?”
“Edge them on.”
It might not be that “being conservative” is the cause of your failures on campus, kids. https://t.co/nTXlKhHtqG
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) January 1, 2022
Best part of this last tweet? All the historians agreeing with Mr. Lund…
Nah man, Ben Franklin would discover Pornhub and MDMA immediately. He’d be dead in a month, but what a month it would be for him. https://t.co/Ge2hEGpYTo
— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund) January 1, 2022
Medium Cool with BGinCHI – Balloon Juice Reflections
mrmoshpotato
Must be nice to be sentient shitstains with no ideas for actual governance.
Thank your horses’ asses that there’s a political party of adults in this country.
billcinsd
The GOP Youths Are Revolting
Yes, yes they are. What do I think of their execution? I’m in favor of it!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
the slaveholding founding fathers would be horrified over paying people for their labor
Jerzy Russian
How does one go about getting tenured faculty fired for something they said?
Anne Laurie
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Yeah, the one Founding Father I don’t think would survive, were he dumped into the present, is Thomas Jefferson.
Either he’d get into an altercation with the wrong ‘saucy wench’ or ‘strapping buck’ about Race Science and the natural inferiority of The Lesser Sex… or he’d realize he would never again be The Most Gifted Man in the World, and slit his wrists in a warm bath.
West of the Rockies
This is what Republicans have today: attempted intimidation, misinformation, disenfranchisement, cheating, fear, resentment, rage, and gerrymandering.
Nothing but negatives. Fox News and other such sources really make it possible.
James E Powell
Key facts never put in headlines about military vaccinations:
Army – 98% of active-duty force at least one shot. Marines – 95% at least one shot. Air Force and Space Force – 97.5% at least one shot. Navy – 98.4% fully vaccinated.
opiejeanne
@James E Powell: GO NAVY!
Good on them.
Brachiator
Fixt.
phdesmond
@mrmoshpotato:
i think they meant “egg them on.”
Brachiator
@West of the Rockies:
Kinda like the Spanish Inquisition.
Pace Monty Python.
burnspbesq
@Anne Laurie:
The 6’5” Jefferson would be a basketball player, but he wouldn’t be good enough to play for the school he established.
burnspbesq
@Brachiator:
give all those asshole kids the Comfy Chair.
burnspbesq
@Jerzy Russian:
Convince a majority of trustees that alumni giving will dry up if it doesn’t happen.
Brachiator
@Anne Laurie:
Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Adams and Franklin are brought into the future and settled in a secure lockdown in Area 51.
A select group of politicians are invited to a secret location to talk with these Founders.
At one point, after reading the decisions of the current conservative Supreme Court, a horrified Madison declares “No, you fools. That is not what we intended at all.”
The Founders are returned to their own time and all records of the meeting are destroyed.
None of the politicians who attended the interview sessions are ever heard from again.
Mr. Kite
@Jerzy Russian: It’s not like on teevee. The majority of teaching staff (“professors”) are not tenured. Lots of piecework teachers hired for a class or two, for pittance, no security at all.
evodevo
@Mr. Kite: Yep…adjuncts like me, doing a freshman level bio course or two for one semester for ….$1500…
lowtechcyclist
@Mr. Kite:
Or they’re ‘instructors’ teaching full-time but on a non-tenure-track, time-limited appointment (been there, done that). And of course the intro-level courses in many departments are taught by grad students (ditto).
ETA:
@evodevo: Can’t imagine what that would be like. I managed to avoid that particular hell.
Jinchi
My first encounter with a conservative Republican student group was a public celebration of an earthquake in SF that had killed several hundred people.
lowtechcyclist
So they’re protesting ‘cancel culture’ by training people to cancel their professors.
I guess ‘cancel culture’ is A-OK with them if they’re the ones doing it.
Barry
@Anne Laurie: or Jefferson would find the internet.
You’d see him with an 8-screen rig in his house.
debbie
Edge on? ??♀️
sab
@Anne Laurie: As Ta-Nehisi Coates once said: How do you go broke running a business (plantation) that has zero cost of labor.
Ken
Several of their ships were put out of service early in the pandemic. Thing like that makes an impression.
Uncle Cosmo
@evodevo:
Which is about the same as I got for a community college evening section of Stat 101 in 1988. (Mostly taught for pocket money and comic relief from a deadly dull day job as a logistics engineer.)
Srsly, already in the mid-80s I had a number of friends (mostly wannabe-poets with literature degrees) eking out a living piecework, one course a semester for that crappy pay at a half-dozen local “institutions of higher learning” scattered all over the metropolitan area. Hey, at least gasoline was under a buck back then…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So basically they want to grow up to be a “Karen” Bravo dudes. I am sure these kids will have splendid careers too with that habit.
Kay
Love how there’s no grappling with this at all among the anti-cancel culture intellectuals, that they were supposedly about free speech and open debate yet they have ended with these witch hunts and state laws restricting speech.
They created a moral panic and now they’re just going to sashay away and pretend the inevitable and easily predictable result of their “work” isn’t happening.
On to the next outrage! Don’t look back at the smoking crater behind you!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Anne Laurie: They would all get sick and die quickly from disease we consider the common cold. Remember Adams and Franklin the urbanites lived in “cities” of populations of 20,000-30,000
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Kay: It’s a bit more nuanced like that with the kids – there is this mentality among the kids on line right and left that they must fix what our elders failed and so playing social media police for pedophilia and a popular thing among them is using the pretty much the tactics described above; troll someone in the hopes they can find some quote to accuse their target of pedophilia.
different-church-lady
Ben would be like, “Wait, you let ordinary people vote? Are you crazy? That’s not what we had in mind at all!”
Mart
Remember neighborhood parents bragging about their middle school daughter disrupting class when the teacher brought up climate change. They also bragged about being VIPs attending a Dick Cheney speech. But they are really nice people.
Jim Appleton
@Brachiator:
Hmm.
Let’s hope Gohmert and Cruz muscled their way into the group … to pick just two.
gvg
@sab: There was a cost of labor. Purchase, food, clothing, guards to prevent escape….Slaves were cheaper, but they weren’t free.
What there wasn’t, was wages of the slaves to be spent and increase demand. It also undercut the wages of free men, thus the northern common laborer wanted slavery to end so that he could be worth more wages.
Slavery also was connected with a lot of delusional thinking on economic matters. It’s like a whole white society that hoped to win the lottery, instead of saving and creating new businesses. Actual slave owners were also lousy at finances. I haven’t studied it in years but it was financially backwards and the North was getting wealthier faster than the South. It is somewhat like communism in that it was based on not understanding economics. You didn’t even have to have moral reasons to want to end it. It was doomed.
The moral reasons were enough alone of course, but there were reasons the northern common man fought to end it but didn’t actually see slaves/ex slaves as their equals and didn’t keep paying attention to reconstruction.
Don’t perpetuate the myth that slavery was easy money though. It could come back. In fact it sort of has with the anti Union accepted “wisdom” that is pretty common.
DRickard
They’re stupid, ignorant and fascist… revolting.
billcinsd
@lowtechcyclist: It’s how Bari Weiss got her start
dr. luba
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: No, the cold was common back then, too. It decimated Native American populations in the 16th century, along with other European-sourced diseases.
RepubAnon
@Anne Laurie: More likely, he’d get a gig on Fox News and spend his off camera moments with “interviewing” young women for internships.
Woodrow/asim
To be a bit of a pendant, it’s critical to note there was a sharp divide between “end slavery” and “make Blacks equal”. Just as Lincoln was intrigued by the idea of shipping Black folx back to Africa, there was a lot of “NIMBY” sentiment (at best!) around having free Blacks around, esp. ones who gained skills while enslaved.
I’m still chewing thru MASTERLESS MEN, but it goes into some deep detail on white labor during this era; this is one of the things that text tries to underline around the…complex feelings a lot of poor whites had towards Black folx, enslaved or not.
Kayla Rudbek
@James E Powell: and as I understand it, some of the Marines are using refusal to get the shot as a way out of the Marines, which might also affect the compliance rate
opiejeanne
@dr. luba: Also, Washington probably wouldn’t die of quinsy in our time. We can treat that.
Brachiator
@opiejeanne:
Is that what happened to John “Quinsy” Adams? ;)
Ruckus
@James E Powell:
That’s horrible. Back in my day it was 100% vaccinated. You didn’t get asked, didn’t get a chance to decline, you stood in line in your underwear (using the vernacular of the navy) nuts to butts, and got air gun and needle shots in both arms, and liked it.
Ruckus
@gvg:
This is an excellent take on the concept. It wasn’t better for anyone in the long run. Everything that sells takes effort and costs something to get to the customer. And cutting wages to cut those costs was extremely stupid. As you state, without money, no one could afford to purchase the goods.
The conservative concept of economics says the more I keep the more I have but that does not work in an actual free society. Economics is vital to democracy because while the freedoms we have are great, they mean nothing if many/most are poor, because then they can’t purchase food or even housing. And that is nothing like equality.
Economic slavery is still slavery. And when you look at it objectively slavery really does not benefit anyone except people who are stealing money in one way or another from the people that work for them. That is not to say that everyone will have the same income, it is to say that widely disparate monetary wealth is a form of slavery. And in this country and most if not all others right now we have people with widely disparate wealth where the people that benefit most from what a reasonable country provides pay the least or very close to it.