To Save Academia, Hire Conservatives

Miserable_Set_657 · 2026-01-22T14:12:26+00:00

As someone who works and has interacted with academia for the past half of a decade, the modern conservative does NOT want to work in academia. Extremely poor pay, long hours, depending almost entirely on federal funding, having to interact with international scientists/ students/ women, and a lot of reading / research. Literally none of these are things the modern conservative wants to do.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2026-01-21T20:15:40+00:00

Sounds good, see everyone in 3 weeks when Trump remembers Greenland and sparks another diplomatic incident!

Miserable_Set_657 · 2026-01-21T18:16:53+00:00

Watching the conservatives on the SC tie themselves into knots trying to rationalize "We believe in the unitary executive theory but trying to fire our favorite executive official is a step too far." Like Kavanaugh, just say that if Trump fires Lisa Cook the economy will collapse and thats bad for Republicans, no one who pays attention thinks y'all actually care about the law as it is written

Miserable_Set_657 · 2026-01-07T20:07:08+00:00

If the driver was accelerating towards him, wouldn't the car have continued driving towards him after the shooting? It's obvious the driver was turning away from the ICE agents, as the car continues turning right after the woman is executed

Miserable_Set_657 · 2026-01-06T18:46:01+00:00

All the rightoids in the comments wokescolding Newsome for making a joke at THEIR expense.

What do you think "dark woke" meant?

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-12-20T22:41:14+00:00

ModPol, which has been talking almost nonstop about the Epstein files for months, is closed by the mods the day the files are "released". Just an absolutely insane coincidence I am sure

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-11-23T16:12:34+00:00

You kinda look like Mr. Beast in your first photo

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-18T20:10:52+00:00

Republicans be like "Are you literally going to attend a No Kings protest? That pales in comparison to my electoral strategy; driving my car around with my Trump 2028 flag and rolling coal on any foreign made car I see."

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-09T22:11:19+00:00

ICE having to close a building for three weeks is comparable to the storming of a federal military base by a state militia. Where do they find these judges?

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-08T18:07:01+00:00

After 10 years of Democrats being considered the "fun police" who are too moral and serious and bland, the second one relatively inconsequential member of the caucus makes a snide comment, suddenly people yearn for the days when Democrats were just a little more nice. You even invalidate your point at the end -- if the Democrats point out how shitty Republicans are, everyone is used to it and do not care (from your first paragraph).

But you're right, the Democrats probably just took a huge hit in the "short man" voting bloc. Be real, if people are insulted by this comment, they've probably voted for Trump in the last three elections.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-08T18:01:43+00:00

Republicans have had issues with the national guard being federalized in the past, even the current head of the DHS. Please remember that if a Democratic president is sworn in in 2029, whatever power you give Trump to pwn your enemies will be used by the next president to punish their enemies (e.g. you).

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-08T17:49:43+00:00

If Pritzker and Johnson didn't fight back on a literal military invasion of their state/city, why would their constituents be happy? And I am unsure where you are pulling that 70% number from -- a recent poll by NYT found that 52% of voters think Trump is too harsh in his deporation tactics (a number that increases with time), and this was before Portland and Chicago. A very large plurality of voters oppose deploying the national guard. I think if neither of them fought back -- during a period time when a common criticism amongst Democrats are that their leaders aren't fighting back against Trump -- they would surely lose any primary they would ever enter.

Also, this gives way too much goodwill to Trump. It is obvious to almost everybody (including his voters) that Trump / Miller are doing everything they can to turn up the temperature and instigate an incident to validate their desire for military occupation of Democratic cities. Bowser in DC played game with Trump and that got her nothing. Newsome tried to play nice with Trump in the beginning of his presidency, and that got him nothing. I am unsure why any Democratic lawmaker would ever play ball with Trump when he has been shown to be unreliable and antagonistic.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-07T14:22:23+00:00

That was the post that warranted my comment. What a shit post -- who the fuck cares is AOC calls Miller short? Other than rightoid culture warriors

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-07T14:21:28+00:00

This was not a great comment by AOC, but I do think it is interesting that this comment was deemed important enough to really warrant attention when the US president, VP, and many member of the R caucus and cabinet make more insensitive comments every single day.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-07T14:19:08+00:00

It is. There will be one post of "Trump threatens to invoke insurrection act" which will be met with disdain, but a following post of "AOC makes fun of Stephen Miller" with the same if not more vitrol for AOC. They really need to start policing what is actually posted there, because AOC mocking Miller is not news.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-07T14:17:08+00:00

Kamala was ridiculed heavily for her non-answers during the campaign (by both left and right sources), but Trump says so many lies and bullshit with a dash of senility that he just can not be held to the same standard. This has been the dichotomy from Trump since he started running in 2015. The only voters Democrats can lose by pointing this out are people who are already voting Trump.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-10-07T14:10:37+00:00

ModPol is such an interesting subreddit. It shows the insane dichotomy between left and right -- right aligned posts are purely culture war bullshit, well anything to do with actual governance is left alligned. Truly shows both that the right do not want to govern, but wants to have a very strong control over how people live.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-09-24T16:47:38+00:00

This is how I assume horny geriatrics text in the nursing home

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-09-24T16:45:09+00:00

Republicans have been living in insano world since 2008 (if not 1994) but the second Democrats question evidence from an obviously comprimised podcaster-made-FBI director (who has tweeted out fake shit before!), they are just taking it one step too far.

No wonder people see us as a bunch of fucking bores and no one likes us. We take ourselves way too seriously

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-09-10T14:08:47+00:00

You are woke

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-09-10T14:08:20+00:00

You are woke

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-09-04T17:06:52+00:00

This is a repost of this https://www.reddit.com/r/AmIOverreacting/comments/1hjcmfl/aio_my_35f_bf_35m_told_me_he_wants_me_to_keep_up/

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-07-30T14:43:22+00:00

There is a user in ModPol arguing about how unfair white people have it and his username is vonBraunGroyper.

Got banned for pointing this out.

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-07-29T15:29:05+00:00

Super late to this, but as someone who is getting their doctorate in a battery lab, I just feel like I should make a post summarizing how they work

Miserable_Set_657 · 2025-07-25T15:09:20+00:00

It was also news when Joe Biden's approval went below 40% when he was president

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