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Chris, Karl Marx Enjoyer
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Chris, Karl Marx Enjoyer
@WriteToRebel
Certain bodies must not repeat themselves in the dawn. Men do not fight for tons of steel. This, sir, is my resignation. The desperate die expensively today.
(They/he) UMass Amherst EngLit
Joined October 2016
- My grandpa just said an incredible old man phrase, which is “I’m tellin’ six-foot jokes and everybody’s five ten”
- Famously, the scientist who came up with the concept of the “alpha male” in wolves later realized that these dynamics only emerge in captivity, when different males are thrown together randomly. In the wild, wolves have strong familial bonds and don’t compete that way.Name other scholars beside Oppenheimer who spent their later years running away from their early work
- Too many YouTube video essayists are failed actors and not enough are failed academics
- The kinds of errors I’m encountering in intro to college writing are not the kinds of errors you’d make if you were regularly exposed to printed books
- Righteous Gemstones is the best show because every episode contains multiple lines of dialogue that no human being has ever said before
- Just read a post about a guy who wanted to write fantasy novels, so he started reading world literature to learn the craft and now he can’t stand fantasy novels anymore
- In the trailer for Alien: Earth, they quote The Wrap calling the show “a world-altering breakthrough.” This seemed excessive even by film publication standards, so I looked this up. The phrase appears in a description of the plot, in reference to a scientific breakthrough.
- Keffiyah horse you have to stop. Your swag too tough. Your mane too different. They’ll kill you Keffiyah horseتكساس اليوم: أحلام العصر.
- I love speaking over people and denying their lived experiences
- Replying to @WriteToRebelTo his immense credit, he dedicated a large portion of his life to militating against his own work. There are stories of him trying to pull his own books from shelves. He was very aware of the ways his work had been misinterpreted and did his level best to stop it.
- You can do a masters and abuse substances at the same time. Ask me how I know
- All of D&D is explicable once you know that Gary Gygax was both a race essentialist and an insurance actuary
- No offense to my anarchist friends but. You don’t have a Marx. Where else are you going to get an actual critique of capitalism
