Doubledee

I'd love to hold the politicians accountable. How exactly do you do that? Because not voting sure isn't going to do that.

That feeling when you live in a democracy but have to vote for a genocidaire because not voting for him isn't a way to hold him accountable.

Yeah, I have family that ask sometimes when I'm going to get into being a professor, they don't seen to understand that's not a thing anymore. I make more doing manual labor I only needed a GED for than I would make teaching in a university.

To a certain kind of liberal the idea that you can't meritocracy your way into a job you find fulfilling is genuinely impossible to digest.

Where/how do you all acquire this stuff? I've never really gotten into it but I think my partner might like for me to spruce up sometimes, I'm a bit of a lout most of the time. Real peasant energy. You just order online?

Plus the environment is full of people with an incentive to lie to you or engage in wishful thinking to validate their career choices.

In undergrad my profs would regularly distribute all this literature about cool jobs you could get in history. I always planned to go for a PhD so I knew those other things weren't actually that realistic and teaching was your best shot but a lot of my classmates didn't know.

Of course after getting my MA abroad I realized that nobody in the states is gonna get paid to teach about obscure history when the Humanities are dying wholesale. No one told me that they're not hiring professors anymore except as adjuncts. I was lucky to get a full ride and not have debt but to actually have a career in history I would have had to live abroad forever.

No one in the dying field has any incentive to tell you the field is dying.

I miss my large boy.

But what does it do?

We love our monarchs "throbbing ingrown toenail red" folks, that's how you know they're ripe.

Yeah hearing meeting minutes straight out of Dr. Strangelove was very unsettling during the second season of Blowback.

Is trying to explain why Iran is a bad actor in the region.

Lists 4 countries completely ruined by US foreign policy over decades.

???

oil prices are high because that's what putin can use as leverage against the developed world after his failed annexation of Ukraine and it's clear he'd rather die than accept Ukraine is an independent country.

... is this "Putin" in the room with us right now?

Yeah I think especially if it ends up being a big thing going on for multiple sessions that becomes more likely. There's other industries in town with shitty working conditions too, so solidarity or spreading the strike is also a possibility.