The real underwater basket weaving
University of Oxford.
Opinion discarded
he took a post from a leftist and replaced USA with russia…
oh yeah, I’m an anti-authoritarian liberal pseud, and you bet your ass I’m going to put they in bold in my unsolicited geopolitical fanfiction
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to elaborate, I’m just amazed at how far these people have their own heads up their asses. Highlighting they and them as if it’s some incredible insight they’ve had re political philosophy, like “omg this is just like Nazi Germany when ‘us’ was Germans and “them” were Jewish people! omg guys tribalism/populism bad, us vs them is bad,” etc. etc.
motherfuckin economics and polisci deserves a third designation separate from “hard” or “soft” science, perhaps “pseudo-”. the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles, and outside of examples of so-called “primitive communism” it has always been “us vs. them”, class vs. class, in one form or another.
These things work best if you imagine them read by a stoner who puts “dude” and “whoa” after every other line. E.g:
A state of grievance has many children. One is the manufacture of an enemy.
dude…
Another child of grievance is the appointment of a strongman.
whoa…
You start to imagine your enemy as much more powerful and interested in you than they actually are.
mind blown…
It reads like especially vague Dark Souls lore.
underwater basket weaving
What does that mean?
American expression used to satirize “useless” college degrees, as in “I studied liberal arts and got a degree in underwater basket weaving”
I thought that came from the XKCD comic
When I’m in a projection competition and my opponent is ukraine pfp☠️😬