"What can I do with my degree in poli sci?"
"You can teach poli sci!"
The Academic Industrial Complex at work.
I'm well aware of the importance of academia I just wanted in on the bit
Or a think tank ghoul that determines American colonial policy
Stealing Cars is probably more honest and useful than study economics.
we don't need another neoliberal priest to parade an ideology as dead as the next US presidency candidates
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you can read and understand 3 works of theory of the tendency of your choosing, congrats! You have an honorary poli sci degree, and know more than most poli sci profs!
My little sister has been sending her poly sci stuff and her professor is an absolute moron. Like legitimately I can't believe how uneducated they are.
She's a junior and he had them write an essay about what it means to be American. He also pulled the "Communism is when dictators murder and socialism is when the government does stuff" schtick.
He's very conservative and uses the term "liberal" to insult students and mocked an extra credit art project she did with overtly socialist imagery in front of the class calling it "liberal trash".
This is a Florida college btw
I know someone who took a polisci class and the teacher explained that there were two types viewpoints, realist and liberalist
The realist is okay with killing a bunch of children as long as the country comes out on top while the liberalist wants everyone to be friends
uses the term “liberal” to insult students and mocked an extra credit art project she did with overtly socialist imagery in front of the class calling it “liberal trash”.
Tbf, I've definitely seen that happen on here as well. Even when people aren't really exibiting any lib tendencies, but just disagreeing over doctrine and strategy.
That's completely different than a teacher, who has authority, shaming someone in front of their peers. I don't understand how you're being fair by comparing the two.
Yeah, but he's calling them "liberal" in the way that Trump does. There's a massive difference between left wing criticism of liberalism and right wing criticism.
"No investigation, no right to speak" is so applicable to every field of knowledge and discipline I can think of. It's become my go-to response to someone who tries to tell me how to do my job when they don't understand it
Mao had a way with words
He was also the greatest philosopher of the 20th century don't @ me
I mean I wouldn't go that far with it, but you get what I'm saying.
Many such cases! I work in a design field and accidentally explained some trade-offs in terms of primary vs. secondary and non-antagonistic vs. antagonistic contradictions and my coworker was floored by how useful a schema it was.
Or just watch and understand most of Luna Oi's videos
Or like, several
Okay three
(My Partner likes her stuff a lot)
I remember taking poli sci in college. Nearly every class involved me shouting down some reactionary shithead at least once and I remember turning in a paper that was half the minimum length once and still being given a passing grade on it. I took two classes from the same professor, and the intro to poli sci class literally, unironically taught the "socialism is when the government does stuff and when it does a lot that's communism" line as a fact, although in that class I got an A on the final paper by arguing in favor of what was basically the pop culture idea of the GDR (I was ideologically incoherent and politically illiterate at the time, because I was 18 and had never read any actual theory or history and instead just passively reached conclusions from pop cultural osmosis).
this person's "solutions" for the ukraine-russia conflict:
- sanction russia harder and give :ukkkraine: more lethal aid!
- NATO ground troops
- amerika declare war
- :posadist-nuke:
Heart of Iron cost less than a 4 years ''degree'' and you get the same brain dead Game theory kissinger-core intelligentsia that works at a think tank
At least choosing democracy in HOI4 is a modifier, not some braindead ideological rhetoric that you go lecture the less advanced countries in Central Asia
Claim to have solved something
Think you're smarter than others who have failed to solve it, failing to consider that their attempts have been tested by reality and yours has not
This is LessWrong-tier shit lmao
At first this didn't load fully so it was just "I am for the immediate eradication of all poli sci majors" and then a bunch of white so I was fully on board
I took a single poli sci course in community college and it was the biggest fucking waste of time I've ever experienced in a school setting
I'm taking an intro to polisci course right now and we've talked more about American imperialism than anything, I think I just got lucky with a based professor. I googled her and found her twitter too, she was literally liking tweets insulting liberals and stuff like "Amerikkkans will justify every instance of their country doing literal genocide"
Mine was more "according to the chart America has more freedoms"
Like this was back when I was still a lib, but even then I could see how fucking substanceless and unscientific the class was.
Well she's gay, a minority, and like 30, so not you're typical 60 year old white professor with a superiority complex. Right now we're reading excerpts from Indigenous American/Canadian literature and about how those communities were very communal and democratic and far less discriminatory and selfish than Europeans.
I feel like you should ask her if she knows any other based professors and try and take their classes, even if they aren't 100% related to your field of study. Saying this as someone who had shitty profs in my field of study and I didn't really learn anything from them anyway.
My brother took a poli-sci course (ish) and they had that big ass map of "freedom" by FreedomHouse. When I pointed out that it's garbage, he got defensive and said "just because they don't publish what criteria they rank countries by, doesn't mean it's totally useless". I had a lot of fun dunking on him after that one, and he even admitted that I was kind of right, so I guess the small victories count.
Mine was really into the idea of the UN intervening more to help third world nations with their problems and thought that it should be more powerful, and also liked talking about restorative justice, so not too bad
Also he was a former child soldier in the Biafran conflict so I can't be too hard on him
I mean, the solutions are pretty simple: stop arming and funding Ukraine and Israel, start supporting Palestine. It's getting anyone in power to actually go through with them that's difficult.
"Sure, I may have shattered my knuckles and nearly died of blood loss, but you should try looking at the other guy - I tore him to pieces!"
Hey, at least our arguments don't end with the conclusion that you elevate local entrepreneurs and privstise public infrastructure.
I've moved on to having political arguments in my dreams that I win. Literally the nerdiest sort of power fantasy.... ugh
College kids in psych 101 who psychoanalyze their friends, but on a global scale.
What if I want to have an easy major where im allowed to rant at libs? checkmate
This is what Reagen took from us: a lefty rant-at-libs major where nepo lefties become union consultants and senators and the like
In my experience, poli sci majors either want to do pre-law and their school doesn't have that or convinces them this is better, have a major like finance or international relations and think double majoring will get them jobs traveling, or are completely 100% delusional. Sometimes, very rarely, they want to study anthropology but their family thinks they can't get a job with that, so they have to take this and become a politician.
I took an international relations class when I was in college and all of the tests were so fucking stupid. Neoliberal answers were always considered the “best” (i.e. right) ones
Fuck political science
It sucks because it's very lecturer specific. My IR unit was awesome, my lecturer gave good marks for critiques of US hegemony when the South China Sea stuff was really getting its start.
Edit: Also, my global political economy lecturer opened his first lecture critiquing the modern splitting of poltics and economics into distinct fields as a means of muddying the water and entrenching capitalist realism.
Edit: then again, by having a global political economy unit, don't know if it counts a PoliSci at that point...
Deadass had a polisci essay where were only allowed to cite works covered in class, which meant it was like 80% journal of democracy articles as evidence for which world system is best
