adamrodger.bsky.social
PhD, University of Kansas 2024. Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, civil war and revolution, 1930s European political history, history of empire, communism, nationalism, fascism, and migration. Good thing none of THAT is relevant anymore!
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Yes, but to varying degrees, ALL presidents have been doing this. Maybe we should stop having them?
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It's like how Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries were all "I agree with Elon Musk!" last week. Chill out, guys! Don't start courting monsters just because they don't like a different monster you also don't like.
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Don't get me wrong; we should not be getting into this war. Broken clocks, etc. But let's be careful about saying Tucker is right; it's just that his preferred genocidal authoritarian regime is opposed to this other genocidal authoritarian regime. He's still a fascist, he's still bad.
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would be really bad for his Russian handlers. Russia needs Iranian drones and munitions for its genocidal war in Ukraine. A disruption to that supply would be a real problem for them. That's the main reason Russia - and therefore Tucker - is against the possibility of war between Iran and Israel/US.
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Push toward nothing; they've been fascists for a long time now.
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Just so we're clear, it's pretty dumb to show up at a protest solo, carrying an AR-15 in what appears to be an unslung, awkward tactical carry, while dressed in all black looking like a mass shooter.
NONE of that excuses the yellow vest guys shooting into a crowd, nor the disinformation.
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No, you just talk like LA is a war zone. You should talk to people who live there, people who are actually experiencing this on the ground. The only people invading LA are the Trump regime. Please stop painting the people being targeted by authoritarian violence like THEY'RE the instigators.
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Protests in LA have been overwhelmingly peaceful! You just find whatever footage you can of a car on fire, and you and the other news outlets just keep playing that. Do you show footage of police shooting journalists? Or shooting people trying to get home? Firing grenades and tear gas into crowds?
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Um, Actually, Spencer says he comes from Double Hell, meaning the Iron City of Dis, which is the home of Devils, not Demons.
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how to manipulate information. If they don't know how to construct or evaluate an argument, if they can't do basic source analysis, they will be very easily manipulated. I don't assign papers so that they know the USSR sent tanks to Spain, I do it so they can learn how to analyze and evaluate info.
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They're probably not even learning the material, because part of learning it is reading it, pondering it, taking it all in over time. Letting the AI do it means they're not training their own minds, which is going to be a problem for them, especially when they're confronted with people who know
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Suppose that the AI spits out a paper, and the student is diligent enough to go check all the AI's sources.
Even then, the student is not learning the skills I'm trying to teach them. They're not learning how to aggregate and evaluate sources. They're not learning how to structure an argument.
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Suppose my student was instructed to write a paper about Soviet involvement in the Spanish Civil War, for instance, and they went to AI asking it to write the paper for them. They give the AI the parameters of the assignment, tell it to cite its sources, maybe even tell it what argument to make.
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His whole "Judges love Democrats and hate Republicans" thesis seems really undermined by Bush having the shortest bar up there.
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I don't know what clotted cream is, but it needs a top to bottom rebrand.
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Okay I'm gonna need to know more about these German communists. Names, please!
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Two people get murdered, he blames the Democratic party as a whole, calls the alleged murderer a dog.
Thousands of children get murdered, their homes, schools, hospitals, and places of worship destroyed, oh, but he's fine with that.
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Why provide an example on one, but not the other?
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Yeah, I learned that on Um, Actually.
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Man, if you can't trust the journalistic integrity of the funny-papers and yuk-rakers, what can you trust?
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Definitely worth burning the planet down faster for 🙄
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What part of this is "trashing Lincoln"? The abnormal height part?
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End of list.
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Of course, that can't be the WHOLE solution either, there's a lot more to do beyond encouraging organizing. It does, however, absolutely have to be part of the solution.
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What a weird complaint. There are tons of policy changes and legislation and whatnot that represent "practical solutions" for working families, and workers organizing unions is absolutely at the very top of that list. Nothing more effective than unionizing and supporting unions.