#solving inequality

[kagrenacs]

My brother is watching infinity gauntlet for the 80th fucking time. Purple space grimace wishes he had what Jagganoth has. Thanos has 0 backstory, his plan to kill 50% of living things makes no sense, and his golden armor is boring. His dick isn’t even out.

[exhaustedwerewolf]

thinking about my two current dnd characters who I was initially worrying are a bit similar as int/dex type fighters but have realised one has intense main character syndrome and the other has even worse npc syndrome

[littlewetbeast]

god i desperately need to be done with this undergrad asap so i can go back to writing about cas and dean going crazy with lust for each other

[awkwardhumann]

I’m interested in polysci for uni could u elaborate on ur field of study

disclaimer: im only in my second yr of university (kind of) so keep in mind this is all from an undergrad view where i don't get to engage with more specific topics in political science. also strap in this is literally the longest thing ive ever typed on this website. im also assuming you're left-leaning since you are on blue hair and pronouns dot com

i have a complicated relationship with political science because i am a communist. i find polisci interesting and i engage with it on my own time, however, what they teach you in university (this depends on your professors and university as well imo) is to evaluate political issues from a neoliberal and western perspective. most of your course material will be written by westerners heavily influenced by neoliberalism. the biggest indicator of this is when you study any geopolitics. you might get good readings on imperialism and colonialism or you will get straight Nixon era warmongering that deems whatever nations the west views as an "enemy" as "autocracy" or "regimes" or "authoritarian" all of which are useless terms .(in the field of polisci prob not but these r all stupid buzzwords they use to conjure up negative associations w whoever is the big geopolitical enemy) for one of my classes on democracy and technology we had a whole unit on china's social credit system which, i, as a Chinese person, knew was complete bullshit and exaggeration coming from western media. when i challenged this notion to my professors and TAs i was met with dismissal.

basically what i despise about my field is that its a machine that churns out puppets for state agenda who use academia as justification for imperialism and ultimately, to ensure the dominance of capitalism.

you learn about the roots of all this structural inequality, on a local and global scale but they evade any discussion that the effective solution to this inequality is to abolish capitalism.

im not saying there are no leftist or even communist political scientists out there. many revolutionary figures and writers have studied or are even professors of political science, but you will almost never learn about them unless you enter a very specific niche area of research.

what i do like about my field of study is that i have enough interest in it to stay engaged with the political issues we discuss despite hating the "solutions" that are brought up with it. you also learn the roots of western political ideology which, while i despise it, it gives you a basic layout of how neoliberals/capitalists think (and also how fucking stupid they are). you also will meet a lot of left-leaning people. even if the people i meet are not communists it is obvious we are trying to fight the same thing. and depending on which classes you take, you will get a lot of good education on political issues even if it is tinged with neoliberalism.

im not saying don't study political science if you are a leftist. im just saying as someone who was already very left-leaning (albeit not yet communist) before entering university, there was a lot of dumb bullshit to wade through to get to the actual stuff i was interested in. also hearing the term "corporate capitalism" makes me want to scream.

im a communist, and like i said earlier, despite most universities being generally progressive, western academia is grossly neoliberal and anticommunist and does not evaluate things from a dialectal materialist view, something that literally all Marxists must understand and base their theory on. thus there is an inherent contradiction on how i analyze and process the world vs how they want me to analyze and process the world. occasionally you will also get a lot of pro-capitalist historical revisionism specifically written to paint (usually the USSR and associated countries) as the "bad guys" and downplaying of American war crimes and western imperialist aggression on other countries.

lastly, i want to say im not studying political science as a career aspiration (clearly LOL). im studying it because im stupidly bad at school and will only be able to complete schoolwork if im interested enough in the topic and even then it is a struggle for me. every person is different. i would say ask yourself why you want to study political science and can you stand reading a lot abt neoliberalism and western liberal democracy and about free and fair elections for your first two years. you also read a lot of classic philosophy if you're interested in that!

this is the general gist of my love-hate relationship with my major. if you have any other questions feel free to dm me! i know i shit on the field a lot but i think if you find the right professors and the right courses there's a broad selection of topics and even other fields you can venture into that help really narrow stuff down to your specific interests. <this applies to university in general. 

[ofhouseadama]

alright, I got home from work last night, had a three hour panic attack, and laid in bed instead of doing literally any of the things i needed to do but I'm back and ready to answer asks again lmao

[antimasculist]

if I post my math homework will you guys do it for me

[perfectdiction-ary]

Money don't get everything, it's true

But what it don't get I can't use

Money by Barret Strong - Billboard Top 100 1960 - #97

[mushroomminded]

all the companies at the end of the year be like “i did the social justice” 

[flippedorbit]

I have changed my mind I hate algebra again

[lizziebobizzy]

[hakurasakura]

top 5 solutions to global economic crises

no

ask me what my top 5 are

[pepsimayo]

Some of you really confuse hatred for Harry styles with support for Lil Nas X

[isa-renee]

how to explain to my vaguely-conservative-usually-a-republican aunt that she is literally a socialist

[honeybee-fuzz]

like you could fill a whole book with things terfs couldn’t begin to understand but ultimately their ideology boils down to their lack of intersectionality or human compassion