PoliSci Nerd Freakout
An International Relations student's scrapbook. Over the course of reading and writing and researching, and just plain living I discover all kinds of interesting facts and figures and quotations that I'll never end up using in a report or a presentation. This is my place to share them. I hope you like it. I'll also probably share random shit I find interesting like kittens or game of thrones, potential followers have been warned.
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Quote reblogged from Really, Fox News?This is Obama’s America! It’s like the Soviet Union. He said he would change the country. He said it. And a lot of people voted for him. And if you see any of those people today, do me a favor, punch them in the face.
Today in overreactions- Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros responds to the DOJ’s arguably illegal investigation of a Fox reporter by bringing in communism and advocating violence (via reallyfoxnews)
Punch anyone in the face who is so fucking ignorant about the Soviet Union that “Obama’s America” is anything like it. Or is it that they’re ignorant about America itself? Both most like.
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Post reblogged from Cosplay and other fun things.
This happened.
I know everyone thinks us college kids are uneducated, uncultured swine but..
Really?
What. The. Everloving. Fuck?
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Post reblogged from Not Feelin' It These Days
Even though your study is published in the APSR, when you refer to George W. Bush as “Bush (II),” you are an idiot.
…why? I’m not seeing the problem here. Although I suppose it’s true that I don’t refer to FDR as Roosevelt (II)… but at least the Roosevelts had the decency to have different first names, making them significantly easier to differentiate.
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Photo reblogged from Sarah Marie
For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.
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Quote reblogged from PoliticalprofIf I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
Isaac Asimov (via politicalprof)
There is an Isaac Asimov quote for any occasion!
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Post reblogged from Too school for cool
everybody is saying yahoo sucks but how many times have you gotten answers for your homework on yahoo answers amirite
…never? I’m sorry, was that supposed to be a rhetorical question?
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Also, as I am reading your other posts-in case you wondered: the Sarah Palin thing did seem to me to be like a common misconception because many students in my large foreign policy class at a large state university actually thought she had said that. I know you said that if they had googled it they would had known she hadn't said that, but I feel like many people my age don't do enough research nor are they politically interested/motivated to do so. Thus, that post.
Asked by elle-bells
Oh no, a lot of people believe she said that and they’re dead wrong. I agree with you there, and while I don’t honestly think much of Palin, she deserves to be criticized for the things she actually said. Where I’d disagree is that this mistaken notion is the fault of media bias. I don’t think it was really passed on and generated by the news media hence why I said it be hard to find reports attributing the quote to her. I think the real fault simply lies with the meme-ability of the quote. It was more memorable and entertaining than what she actually said and so that’s what stuck in people’s minds long after they’d forgotten where they heard it. I think the culture of the internet and it’s flagrancy of sharing things without bothering to source them is more at fault than political bias in the news media.
We both agree that Palin shouldn’t be judged by someone’s parody of her, we simply disagree as to the cause. I don’t really think it’s anyone’s fault or intention that it became the huge meme it did, except of course for Tina Fey for being too good a comedian.
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Post reblogged from What Should Obama Call Me?
I find a lot of stuff on your blog objectionable, things I deeply and passionately disagree with, but here’s a friendly reblog: something liberals, conservatives, and policy wonks can all agree on.
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Post reblogged from What Should Obama Call Me?
y’all must be like
there’s that left media bias again
True, that line was from Tina Fey’s impressions/parodies of her. I hardly think the common misperception can be attributed to media bias though. I’d be impressed if you can find even one news report/article that attributes that quote to her. (though it’s probably happened once or twice, the way foreign news outlets sometimes mistake the onion for news and report on it. But that’s more of an issue of sloppy journalism than bias)
Now what she did say and what Tina Fey was parodying was that You can see Russia from Alaska, which, on a clear day is absolutely true. The ridiculous part was that she was using this fact of geography as evidence that she had meaningful foreign policy experience which I find pretty laughable though in a more subtle way than Fey’s humor.
It’s notable that her successor as Governor, Sean Parnell is going out of his way to avoid this particular criticism: he’s already made three foreign trips since assuming the position. Leads me to believe he’s anticipating a run for another office. Following her example of vice president seems far fetched (though not impossible) but I wouldn’t blink if he decides to run for senate once his term is up.
