@WineVigilante1 @wil_da_beast630 I'm sorry you've had such a terrible experience, but it is not shared by the overwhelming majority of women.
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Spanish Lit Prof
@IllinoisProf
A conservative scholar and literary critic blogging at https://t.co/4LR23joZc9
Illinois, USA Katılım Ekim 2022
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@wil_da_beast630 The context is that most men’s definition of a “normal-figured woman” is Sydney Sweeney. If she’s not Sydney Sweeney, then the man will make sure she knows that at every opportunity. Then, you wonder why so many women have peaced out on sex.
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For about 30 years, homosexual pedophiles who controlled a captive women's and fashion media really did pitch a sort of "helpless frail waif," "hairless and odorless below the neck" vision of female sexuality.
Normal men of all backgrounds ("Fat Bottom Girls," "Baby Got Back") always found this faintly ridiculous - but it was VERY prevalent.
oli boliii 🍰@thee_jjk_dckrdr
I truly cannot fathom why a big butt would ever be seen as an unattractive feature… extra fullness in the hip area has always been a sign of health, fertility, and femininity, so exactly what is the appeal of a flat butt? I’ll never understand…
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Yep. It's gotten beyond insane. We were officially informed that anybody who used the words "office hours" on their syllabi at any time in the past is a racist. Because black people have no way of knowing what the words mean, and people who use them do it on purpose to exclude blacks. And this is just one tiny thing.
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@IllinoisProf @KeithNHumphreys This is of course is the hardest truth people don't want to reckon with. The DEI regime has built a totalitarian theocracy in academia so complete, to disagree with the cathedral is to face exile and banishment.
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These anguished essays leave me puzzled as to why professors are puzzled as to what to do.. If students can't do the work then give them a bad grade to reflect that. End of. chronicle.com/article/my-stu…
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🙄From the any reasonable standard of enlightened self-interest, this person did literally *everything* wrong.
So, because of her credulous midwit mind, this dutiful box-checker got flim-flammed into a dead end job & now she’s blaming everyone- including @elonmusk- but herself.
Trish "the Dish"@TrishtheSkeptic
@DissentFu If you got a masters to become an adjunct professor you did everything wrong unless you already had family wealth. $100,000 in tuition to earn $3,000 a class (x 5 classes a semester). Math doesn’t math, so clearly that wasn’t part of your masters education
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@oudenkerk99471 @PaulNiland I've seen how Russia did under Biden. It did better than it's doing now. You keep fixating on words, while I only care about reality.
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@IllinoisProf @PaulNiland Imagine how Russia would do without their major asset who was constantly claming Ukraine had no cards.
He tried so hard to make Ukraine give up Donbass and Crimea, that even Putin blushed!
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I'll take a stab at this. Are you ready?
The higher up. The one who appointed her...
Is.
Also.
A.
Russian.
Asset.
Now does it make sense? In fact, is there any other way it makes sense?
Neil Stone@DrNeilStone
How did a Russian agent become Director of National Intelligence of the USA? I'm guessing there will be movies about it one day
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People forget that Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Law. You can't affirmative action your way into an academic distinction like that.
Alice@AliceFromQueens
CODDLED: Obama didn't read and wasn't even smart. STEVE SAILER (!): No actually Obama read a lot and was very smart. I love Twitter.
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@obsessafilma @PaulNiland It's incredible that people would waste time on making such silly, airheaded comments.
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@IllinoisProf @PaulNiland Do...
Do you think after 9/11 the CIA called up every agent and said "ey yo, we're invading Afghanistan, stop installing puppet dictators in that third world country and suit up"?
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@davereaboi @DrNeilStone I feel like the tide is turning, though, now that such unapologetic morons as Candace Owens have come out so strongly for Russia
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@IllinoisProf @DrNeilStone They’ve been losing in Ukraine, but winning the info war here.
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How did a Russian agent become Director of National Intelligence of the USA?
I'm guessing there will be movies about it one day
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@ChristineW7 @HSRdirector I don't see what's offensive about the question, though. The person asking it had no way of knowing without asking. People get unnecessarily touchy about the most anodyne interactions.
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@HSRdirector Grrr I used to steam when I got questions like that too, you can't really clap back if it's an interview though. Ugh, there is no GAP, I grew and I learnt stuff.
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I was once asked by a female academic leader why there was a 10 yr gap in academic output on my CV
I said that the “gap” was where the most important work of my life happened—having 4 boys in 5 years and then helping to keep them alive
my only regret is not having more children
Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science@MishaTeplitskiy
Children derail academic careers even in places with good social nets, like Denmark
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The dominoes keep falling in the Russian plan, the end is near, but how soon will it come?
WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧@WarMonitor3
Ukrainians forces have hit all of the land routes out of Crimea to Russian forces in the Kherson region, forces in the area are falling into chaos running out of crucial supplies where logistical convoys queue up in Crimea and are starting to be targeted.
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@stupidcaveman @avidseries Exactly! Why this is so hard to understand is a mystery. People make culture. Without the people or with people swapped out for somebody else, the culture doesn't reproduce.
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The implication here is that under 2 the American way of life will cease to exist but will somehow continue under 1. This is false because the American people are the source of the life it possesses. If they cease to exist (which is what 1 necessarily entails), then the way of life goes too.
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A question for American rightwingers: Would you rather have
(1) an equity-based "multicultural democracy" in which the clear majority of the population — and therefore the majority of elected officials — were composed of people with ancestry in historically and persistently under-performing groups (e.g., Somalis, Afghans, Congolese) from the "global south", or
(2) a clear majority of the population be European, but governed by a foreign Chinese technocratic elite that valued efficiency and productivity (while tolerating most European cultural norms)?
Nemesis 2026@Nemtastic1
@airish1 @avidseries If you get rid of the CCP and Putin, but the West is still overrun by the global south and its own undeperforming domestic minorities, we still lose. Probably better to live under Chinese technocrats.
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Yeah it’s called traitors and patriots.
Lockmart Liberal Customer Support (Fan)@FellaHrx69
There’s an extremely apparent MAGA divide between pro-Russians and another faction that is increasingly supporting Ukraine
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@PlexInphinity Bolivia, Chile, Honduras. Perú is likely to flip right-wing when all votes are counted.
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Which ones? Milei already was president before USAID was abolished. Venezuela still is ruled by the same party.
Spanish Lit Prof@IllinoisProf
@aimeeterese Among many other things, the end of the USAID funding has done wonders for Latin America. Many Latin American countries have lost its terrible socialist politicians and moved on to elect normal people. Cutting USAID has been a huge benefit for humanity.
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@CovfefeAnon @richardbridd21 I'm not a leftist. I don't deal in identities. You are projecting this identity crap on me unnecessarily.
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@IllinoisProf @richardbridd21 You've been nothing but idiotic this thread
Ah, here's the explanation - for some reason you've tied your identity up in denying something obviously true and you're lashing out in a stupid way at anyone who makes you feel uncomfortable by pointing it out
Stop doing that here
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You guys remember when Victoria Nuland admitted this in front of the Senate but because she wasn't supposed to everyone treated it like it didn't happen?
That was weird, huh?
DNI Tulsi Gabbard@DNIGabbard
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/news…
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@aimeeterese Among many other things, the end of the USAID funding has done wonders for Latin America. Many Latin American countries have lost its terrible socialist politicians and moved on to elect normal people. Cutting USAID has been a huge benefit for humanity.
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Feeding USAID to the woodchipper is objectively one of the coolest things he’s ever done.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children. History's first trillionaire.
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@estel1414 @seashell_luvr Exactly. These people are either very stupid or are faking it really well.
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@seashell_luvr Incredibly weird to refer to a process completely inherent to a healthy, functional female body as "gender-affirming" in a derogatory way. I continue to fail to understand how rejecting motherhood, the single thing men can't do, is somehow empowering for women. Yes there are
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People say “men must become, but women just are”. But I believe it’s actually imperative us women find a way to define ourselves and womanhood through ourselves, instead of through others, lest we live a toothless, cowardly, yet simultaneously narcissistic existence. We didn’t always have the liberty to do this, but now we do. And it is our responsibility.
Insurgent Squirter 💦@datredgyal
Motherhood is a gender-affirming, deeply male-centred process for a LOT of c!s(het) women. A LOT. Many c!s women do NOT want the reality of motherhood; they want a permanent gender marker, a status symbol and absolute power over a helpless being that depends on them for life.
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@CovfefeAnon @richardbridd21 You're crapping on the best country in the world while this horror is happening. Something must be wrong with you: x.com/i/status/20655…
Paul Golding@PaulGolding
Teenage girl stabbed by a migrant as she walked down the street in Burnley, Lancashire!!
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@IllinoisProf @richardbridd21 "No, that doesn't happen"
"Of course it happens, that's no big deal"
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