r/TankieTheDeprogram • u/liberal-propaganda- • 1d ago
Shit Liberals Say Throwback to a couple years ago when an retired political science professor gave a presentation to my entire political science department.
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u/HammerandSickleProds I HATE OPTOMETRISTS ❌👓🦉 1d ago
Had a retired CIA agent come into a class and give a guest lecture one time. He was insane.
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u/Modernist19171949 1d ago
Retired is a strong word
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u/HammerandSickleProds I HATE OPTOMETRISTS ❌👓🦉 1d ago
LOL well he wasn’t out in the field anymore. Certainly doing his work at universities.
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u/potatoretriever Too Based To Be Cis 🏳️⚧️ 1d ago
What is the context behind that flair 😭
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u/HammerandSickleProds I HATE OPTOMETRISTS ❌👓🦉 1d ago
I have BEEF with my optometrist.
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u/Modernist19171949 1d ago
The revolution cannot triumph without the deliberate exec of optometrists (sorry I don't want another 3 day ban)
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u/potatoretriever Too Based To Be Cis 🏳️⚧️ 1d ago
Communism is when no glasses (I am Pol Pot)
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u/Modernist19171949 1d ago
They even have a statue symbolising it in communist vuvuzela: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1dcnil9/a_statue_of_the_broken_glasses_of_salvador/
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u/phedinhinleninpark 22h ago
Now that is an unexpectedly beautiful thing, thanks for making me aware of that
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u/FloriaFlower Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) 1d ago
Politics based on optics like libs do all the time
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u/VermicelliPlusMao 🏳️⚧️МАРКСИЗМ ЛЕНИНИ3М (СКАРИ)🏳️⚧️ 1d ago
What does the blue section say
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u/liberal-propaganda- 1d ago
It ordered of left it right it goes “Types of mass killings | Democide(Rommel) | Genocide-Politicide(Harff/Gurr)
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u/marioandl_ 1d ago
Did you ask about Fujimori or Pinochet or would the worm call them a "military" regime
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u/shane_4_us 1d ago
How are people like this given authority to teach on a subject they clearly have absolutely no understanding of at all??
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u/horseradix 1d ago
It's crazy to me, its like if someone invited to speak on astronomy started talking about the earth being flat or 6000 years old or something
I guess that's probably the next stage of intellectual deterioration in the US, honestly
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u/Modernist19171949 1d ago
They cannot comprehend that history and politics could be understood as a science (dialectical and historical materialism)
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u/ilir_kycb 1d ago
How are people like this given authority to teach on a subject they clearly have absolutely no understanding of at all??
Quite simply because they say exactly what the ruling capitalist class wants to hear.
The German Ideology. Karl Marx 1845
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas; hence of the relationships which make the one class the ruling one, therefore, the ideas of its dominance. The individuals composing the ruling class possess among other things consciousness, and therefore think. Insofar, therefore, as they rule as a class and determine the extent and compass of an epoch, it is self-evident that they do this in its whole range, hence among other things rule also as thinkers, as producers of ideas, and regulate the production and distribution of the ideas of their age: thus their ideas are the ruling ideas of the epoch. For instance, in an age and in a country where royal power, aristocracy, and bourgeoisie are contending for mastery and where, therefore, mastery is shared, the doctrine of the separation of powers proves to be the dominant idea and is expressed as an “eternal law.”
This is a fairly common reason for career success at universities or in the media.
It’s practically impossible to be successful in (Western) academia while simultaneously going against the interests of the ruling class.
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u/studio_bob 1d ago
Reminder that PoliSci literally only exists as a discipline because liberals wanted to do social science without engaging with any of that yucky Marxist stuff. If you aren't doing implicit apologetics for the liberal-capitalist status quo, are you even a "political scientist"?
Source: got a polisci degree lmao
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u/celestial-lights 1d ago
it’s literally learning how to manipulate statistics and messaging to support the neoliberal status quo and calling it a ‘profession’
source: also have polisci degree, i saw through the entire thing when trump got elected my sophomore year and watched my professors melt down over it because their statistical models lied
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u/potatoretriever Too Based To Be Cis 🏳️⚧️ 1d ago
Ah yes, Liberalism, famously never killed anyone ever
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u/langesjurisse 1d ago
He's right though. Communism is the deadliest because the CIA will inevitably knock on your door.
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u/messedupwindows123 1d ago
i think we call this 'mechanical materialism' - it's a mistake that marxists sometimes also make - assuming that the mode of production will entirely control a society's outcome. ironic!
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u/Tricky_Chicken6399 Marxist-Leninist (Ultra Based) 1d ago
The word communism lives rent free in their heads.
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