I mean, personally, I would note that US police departments are extremely uh, compartmentalized. I’m willing to accept that there are good cops out there, genuinely. But a good cop can only exist in a good department, and the structure of US policing makes good departments extremely unstable - and a good cop in a bad department inevitably either becomes no longer good, from accepting the abuses of their fellows, or no longer a cop, from their coworkers and superiors pushing them out.

OP, the Kbin link should have /m/ instead of /c/ to work.

You may be misinterpreting the meme - it’s meant to be intentionally silly, anti-anti-intellectual if anything. “YEARS yet no REAL WORLD USE found for counting any higher than your FINGERS” is definitely poking fun at people who think that higher academic notions are useless.

Kot Gacek: suffering from success

“It was worth travelling three hours to feel ignored by him. Recommended,” wrote one visitor.

What a lil cutie!

No clue! Just a pic I’d saved from somewhere online at some point

Game reference. Disco Elysium. The black guy depicted is racist against ‘Ham sandwich people’, and you play as an amnesiac detective, which means you can spend quite some time trying to figure out the fuck he’s on about. The ‘Advanced Racial Theory’ is one of the thoughts you can spend time trying to decipher after he knocks you the fuck out. It’s a very absurdist game, and wonderful.

The image is based on the Lev Punch template.

Earlier in the war, there were a surprising number of Russian soldiers who tried to loot whole-ass washing machines. A lot were found in the retreat from Kyiv, lmao

Muppet Treasure Island

wololo

I literally noted that this became a meme template

Are copypastas not memes? Is a meme when reaction image, and the more image it is, the more memier it is?

I mean, this became a pretty prominent template so I don’t know how much you can really say it’s not a meme, unless you don’t regard words in general as capable of being memes.

Yeah, no, this is the same kind of argument homeopathy and Young Earth Creationism 'JAQ’offs use.

If I linked to you examples of researchers being fired or harassed for publications that go against racial equality, would you consider the fields they were in under civil rights ‘ideological capture’?

Or would you consider that researchers acting in bad faith are not entitled to be taken seriously by simple dint of their profession, and that allowing people to spew academically ridiculous invective under the guise of ‘just asking questions’ is harmful to the reputation and integrity of academic institutions and a violation of the duty they hold to improve society’s understanding, not worsen it with the implicit endorsement of weasel words and misleading obscurantism?

History major here. Not exactly distant from the scene.

I believe it is demonstrable that social science as a field has been a victim of intense ideological capture,

Big yikes.

That gender and sex are distinct is academically uncontroversial. Sociology in particular likes to dive into that issue.

finding gender ideology to be incoherent

What exactly do you mean by this

Yeah, same. People are truly inex-fucking-plicable.

You would think if I was trying to make a propaganda campaign out of something I wouldn’t have freely admitted to finding them in my ‘Ukrainian War’ folder, and would have more than three to share. But have it your way - useful idiots always do.