what are we? a bunch of … caucasians?
Everyday I’m less impressed by the adults in the room. Thank God these weren’t the people in Stalin’s place when it was time to fight. How are these people so educated but still so intellectually lazy?
They’re miseducated. That’s why they require reeducation.
The more miseducation they have received, the worse off they are and the more they need reeducation.
some of them require just education tbh, open the schools
That’s basically true for the average USAmerican.
But these “”“experts”“” have been trained wrong on purpose for years, as a joke. They need drastic intervention.
A lot of them think having a PhD in a STEM field gives them unparalleled insight into history and politics. All mini Sabine Hossenfelders if you really think about it
My roommate in college lost points on a giveaway free points question on a world history exam by answering that Martin Luther (the reformation guy) was an African-American civil rights leader. The class was focused entirely on the Medieval-Early Modern period. I only know about it because he complained to me that it was a trick question.
He’s now a professor.
I only know about it because he complained to me that it was a trick question.
Did he at least learn something?
I like to hope, but then again his major was in electrical engineering and there were just a few bare bones non-STEM GEs required where faculty were basically ordered by the school to hand out As to anyone who didn’t put racial slurs in their final essay, because they didn’t want to inconvenience STEM students by holding them to actual standards in the “soft” fields, not because they were too dumb to learn it but because students thought it was an insult to be required to take any non-STEM class at all (and consequently skipped nearly all lectures and put in near-zero effort).
One of the TAs I had once said that the bar was at being able to write a coherent paragraph.
It’s been an eternity since I was in college though, so maybe it’s different now. But seeing today’s techbros doesn’t give me any confidence that it is.
I’m pretty sure reading reddit excerpts from the black book is the extent of their “education” about Stalin
How are these people so educated but still so intellectually lazy?
The difference between intelligence and wisdom in DnD showing itself in real life scenarios
Where are the kids in the room when we need them?
I’m now imagining a gathering of Important People, who don’t hold the true power and just don’t know what’s going on - out of depth useless liberals, essentially. The adults at the big dinner table are squabbling over petty xenophobia and debating “obviously this nation’s problems aren’t our fault, and we all think the Soviets are still responsible somehow, but we can’t admit we still haven’t recovered from the Cold War and the people are starting to not buy “it’s the USSR’s fault” as much all these decades later, so who do we blame now?”
Meanwhile at the poorly supervised kids’ table… “My dad keeps comparing the President to Joseph Stalin. So I read some of Stalin’s books. And I don’t get the comparison. Stalin was way better at governing than that bobblehead.” “Yeah, that’s because your dad’s an idiot who can’t tell a communist from a fascist. Just like my mom. Useless, the lot of 'em. Here, you’ll like this.” “State and Revolution?” “Yeah. Lenin’s a good writer, and to understand why our parents say such silly stuff, you gotta learn to see things the way a state does, and that’s a good explanation of the principles involved.” And so on. “So, has anyone here actually read Capital and understood it?” “All I got is that Mom’s best coat is probably worth more than the contents of our linen cupboard and it has something to to do with labour and use value.”
(I’m also seeing a ten year old Lenin, and a bunch of kids on a playground waving signs, and a protest about a silly kid thing getting out of hand. It’s an adorable image. Little Bolsheviks are the cutest thing!)
Apelsilin - Man of Orange
Is this a reference to how Stalin retreated to his dacha and basically had a nervous breakdown and then came back?
Or are they acting like Trump hating science is Communism or something
It’s definitely not any reference to anything that actually happened.
