I had a political science professor talk about working in a campaign with a politician who tried to make a compromise with people for or against the death penalty.
The compromise was that inmates given a life sentence would be offered a lethal pill that they could take at any time. I think he said the idea was that they would have it in their cell to use at any time.
That shit sounded fucking wild to me, but I was like 18 at the time and didn't know why I felt that way.
Looking back now, the psychological torture of being imprisoned for life with a pill like that would be immense and immoral as fuck.
Anyway, that's just one from me. What about the rest of you?
One of my profs said he worked for an NGO to spread democracy in Paraguay. He was also incredibly well travelled and knows 4-5 languages. To this day I think he’s a fed.
Oh yeah that all tracks. Spreading democracy in another country is a huge tell.
My brainworms would be firing nonstop even if it was Lenin himself talking about democracy in Russia
Teacher said his uncle needed a tooth pulled but didn't have any money. So he decides to do it himself and get shitfaced to numb the pain. He got so drunk he couldn't tell which tooth it was so he pulled a couple to be safe
once had a Russian language teacher who believed that Putin was chosen by God to restore the Romanov dynasty and unite Europe. He had a picture of him hanging above the board and a smaller picture of the Romanovs on his desk. Edit: He also believed Rasputin was still alive. He believes what happened prior to being thrown in the river, he just thinks he survived and that the body they found was a double. Edit 2 since I keep remembering things: He also thought Rasputin put a curse on Russia to send it into "100 years of darkness", which came true when the revolution came into power. I took his class in 2016, and he was very excited about Russia's prospects in 2017. Also believed in russiagate, but he agreed with it.
a cooler teacher once said "wanna see my balls" the second she walked in then pulled a set of taxedermied kangaroo testicles out of her desk
He also thought Rasputin put a curse on Russia to send it into “100 years of darkness”, which came true when the revolution came into power.
Dude thought that the Anastasia cartoon was a documentary
I once had a computer science professor say to me "Prove to me you are worthy of my support." I got the sense that was a catch phrase he used sometimes because he thought he was being very clever. He was the chairman of the department and even though I was angry - I didn't reply to him at all. But I sure wish I had.
I could have said something like "Prove to me you are actually worthy of being a professor," and then a pregnant pause "You fucking asshole," and I could have walked away. At that point it was already very clear I was never going to succeed in comp sci. I didn't have the mind for it. And somebody needed to put him in his place years ago.
My high school English teacher had a framed photograph of George W. Bush in the classroom and constantly referred to him as the best president the United States ever had. And to top if off, I vaguely recall her talking about how she had a crush on him and considered him attractive. This was in 2015.
It's surreal to remember because at the time for whatever I reason I didn't think much of it. It wasn't until a year after I graduated that the recollection of it suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks in a case of fridge horror. How does a human being become so brain poisoned?
Oh no oh no oh no. That's all kinds of bad. At first I thought you were going to say some time during his presidency, maybe after that one day, I forget. But 2015? That's bananas.
Reminds me of that scene in Jesus Camp where the lady has all the kids bless a cardboard cutout of Bush
I personally believe that kids desiring to become famous is a horrifying prospect. But yeah like... throw yourself into playing football and study athletic health in the meantime so you have some transferable skills if you don’t go pro. How hard is that to tell a kid? Let them learn about how horrible being famous is later
one thing about this, while it's kinda fucked up to discourage kids to follow their dreams the importance of luck cannot be overstated. Like this Cracked article, from before they went to shit, states:
let's take maybe the most successful movie actor of all time, Harrison Ford. He farted around Hollywood for nine years, taking bit parts without anything major ever coming his way. Clearly talented, very hard-working. Yet not once did anybody look at him and say, "This guy will sell several billion dollars' worth of tickets and action figures some day!" He was just another ambitious, pretty face, in a city full of them. He got so fed up, he quit acting and became a carpenter. Then one day he got hired to install cabinets in the home of a guy named George Lucas. They became friends. That got him the role of Han Solo a few years later.
turns out it's not true, but the real story is just as lucky
https://www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-how-did-harrison-ford-and-george-lucas-meet/
although Ford did do cabinet work for Coppola
ohh for sure, I wasn't trying to contradict you. Success is whatever you make of it.
I had a racist Econ professor who got fired after teaching one semester.
I took a course for pre-Reconstruction US history, expecting it to be the same Plymouth to Constitution to Lincoln curriculum, but the professor was too based to let that happen. It mostly covered Native American history in North America, starting way back with the peopling of the Americas across the Bering land bridge. He also devoted an entire lecture to John Brown.
I had a Macro professor teaching the class for the first time who believed in something like Neomercantilism.
He kept saying he was going to write a book about it; but never did unless he did it under a different name.
Looks like he is still teaching the same class 10+ years later. The shit you believe as a fresh professor and the grim reality of teaching the same class till you retire. Grim.
"Are you all capitalists? You should be! A rising tide lifts all boats!"
Tbf it was a business professor but still
:gold-communist:
Stealing this thanks.
That's an incredibly apt metaphor.
They'll just say something like, "heh shoulda thought of that when the tide started to rise" ...god I hate this shit
US history professor at a community college taught the civil war unironically as the war of northern aggression
Texas, so the professor probably didn't think of himself as a southerner but as a Texan,
but the texas brainworms are as big as texas, so
should've let sherman do a march through texas, as a treat
that would've ruined texas' lovely distinction of surrendering with no union troops in its borders tho, lol
Finally, I have found it. An argument worse than anti-Age of Consent laws
Wait until he hears about the kinds of genes make you white, have blue eyes, and blond hair.
