Joe | PhD candidate
@HowardU
studying Afrofuturist Apocalyptic literature in the Anthropocene and a Society of Professional Journalists award-winning columnist.
@briallenhopper
I'm a long-time Starbucks barista and an adjunct, and there is no way a PhD should actually be making Starbucks wages. Unless you are only teaching one class? Which, in that case, most baristas work 30+ hours a week. Of course they make more money!
@MelissaAGarriga
But why is Bernie guilty of Putin's crimes?? Asking Bernie to appease and recognize an international criminal wanted by the ICC is wild. If diplomacy is what you want, you should be protesting at embassys and the state dept.
@hadeejasouffle
I'm never one to set low expectations for students, but a novel a week is a crazy high expectation for non-major undergrads. I've been an english major for the past ten years and I was only expected to read a novel a week in my PhD lit seminars. And it was a LOT.
@nhannahjones
Not teaching a class per se, but 1619 is on my dissertation list and I cannot explain how perfectly Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous People's History of the US fits alongside your work!
@TReader1956
@chitownzack
@RandomRan26
She recorded the song first, THEREFORE, Elvis couldn’t even have recorded the song without listening to her first. She was not a nobody, but the record industry took her music and made Elvis a superstar.
@whstancil
Fascism also requires an alienated population usually disenfranchised by economic conditions. The Nazis did not rise to power from psychological manipulation, they amplified economic discontentment for political purposes. Capitalism breeds fascism.
@tariqnasheed
You’re the only one calling people names here… sounds like you have a pretty colonial logic here too…. It’s not the take you think it is.
@tressiemcphd
When white people find out meritocracy isn't real but just the benefits of white supremacy, they get so upset because they realize their work isn't so special, which is why they never got promoted. Then they play victim to a system they benefitted from. 🤷🏼♂️
@WhiteholeEmiss
@andreaalanaai
Lmao, it wasn't just a regular human interaction. It was a guy lying about where he went to school when its common knowledge that there aint no way he got into Spellman. If you wanna impress women, at least get more believable lies! 😂😂
@jacob_stamm
@Commander_Ivy
But how the hell is cutting her paycheck gonna do anything to stop more death and destruction? Its punishing the wrong people.
@SwannMarcus89
Lmfao, East Germany is capitalist now... and after reunification, the East German economy boomed and essentially made Germany the fastest growing economy in Europe.
@MelissaAGarriga
Bernie has no control over the Biden admin or its state department. Our supply of weapons to Ukraine is not why Russia attacked Ukraine, we are not adding fuel to any fire because the only fire is coming from Russia, who we are not supplying.
@CaitlinPacific
I would really really love for you to layout the case that her research is plagiarized. If you can't, you're committing career defamation against an academic based on online buzz. Please, be real and show me a single instance of iron-clad theft.
If an outdoor Chappell Roan concert is one of the "worst things humans have done to eachother" then you have an incredibly poor understanding of history.
@cbassdaddy8
Where in queer theory do they obsess over difference and ignore biology? Which theorists? Which books? When did queer theorists say that queers are not human?
@MelissaAGarriga
This sort of narrative invites blame on the Ukrainian people for existing as victims of a war of aggression, who don't deserve to defend themselves because the big bad guy has nukes. You assume Ukraine with weapons means more war, but Ukraine without weapons means more death.
@MelissaAGarriga
The same way EVERY war ends, with a whole lot of bloodshed, destruction and death until no one wins. And the major difference between Ukraine and Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, etc, is that we are not occupying a foriegn nation. We are providing weapons THEY asked for.
@souljagoytellem
It's not a minimization of the Holocaust to acknowledge that the Holocaust was not unique, is not singular and is not a one-off historical anomaly. In fact, Hitler was inspired by the genocide committed by American colonial settlers in the West and Jim Crow in the South.
@valerie_reads
@compactmag_
Does it kill the story? Or does it ruin your fairy fancy nostalgia for heroic greek men? We would take you more seriously if you were actually translating or doing comparative literary analysis.
@FuckCarsReddit
Aint NOBODY walking across Phoenix in that heat. Urban cities in the West will forever be linked to automobile culture because the automobile and the air conditioner *built* the modern American west.
@wil_da_beast630
@MCipriani_WTAE
Where did she ever say that Nigeria was a colony at this time? She said that the UK provided weapons, troops and supplies to those who committed the genocide.
@tyorrique
Locke and Smith and Rousseau, et. al, did not really "naturalize" capitalism per se, their ideologies were much more religious/humanist in nature. Post-Darwin is when social scientists and thinkers began to treat capitalism as if it was a biological and civilizational progression
@tangoldman
It looks like its an assistant position, who probably reports to the director who is probably the PhD holder. They probably want a grad student to exploit, not someone on their level and knows their worth. Just a guess.
@lilsamsquanch66
While the documentary highlights 737 Max crashes, the film ALSO documents the decrease in quality and attention paid to safety after the Boeing merger, which you could say was a clear instance of putting profit over customer safety. What makes you they've learned the lesson?
@ThePhDPlace
The assumption that non-ivy researchers don't work as hard or aren't as knowledgable is the root of your problem, mate. No one taught you to discriminate against non-ivy scholars, you chose that based on some fairy tale you tell yourself about your precious ivy... good god
@dan_sinykin
It's because your department didn't want you to embarrass them with half-assed research published for the readers of the Atlantic... now they see that any engagement is a net positive, even if embarrassing.
I suggest watching White Lotus and feeling even more uncomfortable about the way America fetishes Hawai'ian culture as a symbol of US empire, and as a quasi-religious tourist experience that frames colonizers as victims in need of a relaxing vacation to cleanse their guilty mind
@CallaWalsh
Why "defend China" instead of forging ties of solidarity with the Chinese working class? Marxism isn't about placing nationalism above economics and class.
@Deggans
The funniest shows (and usually the most successful) tend to be the ones that whole heartedly embrace and celebrate diverse identity. Kim's Convenience, One Day at a Time, Abbott Elementary, Grace and Frankie, Special, Shrill, Sex Education, Modern Family, Blackish, Broad City
@nhannahjones
But don't you get it? The postmodern industrial neoliberal capitalist matrix of identarian political discourses is the cause of anthropogenic ecocide!! 😉😉
@cakesandcourage
You might be right about this when it pertains to white ppl, cause the great grandparents where living off the land to COLONIZE it. But non-white and indigenous people have lived off the land in the US for centuries, out of want or necessity.
After WWII, the US government brought Nazi scientists from Germany to Huntsville Alabama to work on the space race. Black WWII vets who fought against fascism abroad continued to be Jim Crowed at home. Something to remember on Holocaust Remembrance Day…
@John_Attridge
Omgggg, so many good lines to choose from!!
"Safe in my Alabaster chambers"
"Publication is the auction of the mind" "My Life had Stood a Loaded Gun" "I'm Nobody who are You?" "Some keep the Sabbath" "Wild Nights Wild Nights" "I cannot live with you"
@courtney_ap
@CarlottaPini
@mass_tx
There is also no excuse for parents who actively choose to stop caring for their children once they make their own choices.
@ElieNYC
So you're telling us that we have to vote for genocide to avoid more genocide? Those of us who have been watching US-Israeli-Palestinian policy *for years* know that this current war in Gaza happened with full Democratic party support...
@nhannahjones
Others I might suggest include: Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison
Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams
Black Jacobins, CLR James
Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston
Lose Your Mother, Sadiya Hartman
Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Olaudah Equiano's 1789 Memoir
@queersocialism
They think that Jews will never be safe as long as a single Palestinian breathes. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 It's a genocidal construction of Israeli identity.
Shame on
@vulture
for amplifying this sickness (I use that word advisedly) when so many in the theater world have died because of this horrible disease, and two specifically that we could name within the last few years.
@raguileramx
@BrandyLJensen
Its not entitlement, its just good business sense. As an early morning barista we are BUSIEST between 7-9am. Once its 9am, everyone is already at work, and it slows down dramatically.
@whstancil
They had no problem sanctioning Russia even tho it caused global shortages in fuel. Sanctioning Israel would be incredibly effective given that their main market partners are the US and Germany... Russian sanctions fucked up the German economy, but did little to cripple Russia...
@MelissaAGarriga
Once again, blaming Bernie for Putin's atrocities is just wild. Saunders did not invade Ukraine, and he is not the one hiding from the negotiating table.
@BuckAngel
There is no such thing as biological gender… just like there is no such thing as biological race, or class, etc. Your misconstrued ideas of biology are what’s damaging…
@cdevorinvan
@ShaiDavidai
This is not hate speech, and universities have never stopped hate speech on campus... as an LGBTQ person, I've been told I'm going to hell from NUMEROUS preachers on campus.
Jim Crow was the PIONEER for apartheid. Modern apartheid regimes rely on the same segregation tactics invented by Jim Crow. Additionally, segregation was LEGAL from the top down Supreme Court ruling that separate but equal was constitutional. You are utterly clueless.
Jim Crow in the US wasn't apartheid because people could travel, among other things, and the segregation wasn't done top down constitutionally and federally, but rather geographically throughout the US with a collection of local restrictions and policies. You're utterly clueless.
@TReader1956
@chitownzack
@RandomRan26
I think you’re missing the critical point that this was in the 1950s, when record labels marketed music by race, Big Mama was denied the success Elvis had, not because she was less talented, but because he was white singing the same song. Ofc song writers want success.
@ClimateHuman
Its so disappointing to see a climate scientist abandon a critique about NATO's ongoing energy imperialism for a shallow political science freshman critique of an obvious corrupt strongman. This war is not one-sided, and is about more than territory or politics.
@lhfang
My working class parents taught me NEVER to trust the police. Even when we were burglarized, vandalized, threatened, shot at, etc, the police NEVER DID ONE THING TO KEEP US SAFE. Never solved a single crime, never followed up a single time, and never prevented the next incident.
@OpposingViews
@ShaiDavidai
@Hunter_College
@CUNY
Screen professors for "racism" ? Hahahahahah. That's the funniest joke I've heard all year 😂😂😂 clearly if Shai works at Columbia, they clearly don't care about having racists on faculty.
@ClimateHuman
NATO is clearly struggling to maintain global hegemonic power without control over petroleum, gas, and energy supply/price. This is a war funded by international capitalists and the US empire to assert geopolitical control over energy, including Russia and Ukraine's energy.
@VaushV
@BriannaWu
Lmao "massive spike in men's social alienation." The statistic is about sexual intercourse, not alienation. But its not surprising that a man like yourself would come up with a grand conspiracy to explain why you can't get laid.
@CariHovanec
I think Wario is merely a manifestation of Mario's id. Since Wario is really just a bastardized/heightened stylistic copy of Mario, his identity is duty-bound to Mario. Without Mario, Wario ceases to contain identifiable markers of self. Wario is Mario's inner-saboteur.