Ive been scraping peoples tweets.. specifically I've been scraping the tweets of blowhard self important professors who managed to make Turning Point's "professor watchlist" and smell their own farts. After an afternoon of sifting through the "minds" of those in charge of shaping other people's I gotta say- ive never felt better about dropping out of university. Heres a sampling:
"If we want to browbeat conservatives for rejecting public health guidance, it would be super helpful if that guidance was (a) consistent and (b) made sense"
"Im honestly not sure anymore why the new CDC guidance has so riled me. Theyre vindicating what ive been saying about the efficacy of vaccines for weeks.."
"My guess about Bill Gates relationship with epstein is that epstein was a manipulative sociopath and Gates is so stupid he sincerely thought they were friends"
"One thing people probably dont want to think about is that small businesses are actually ill equiped to provide the wages, benefits, and job security that workers need"
"My view is that its profoundly anti Semitic to assume that Jewish identity is intrinsically tied up with what Isreal is doing"
"It might just be impossible to run a coherent public health policy in a country where 30-40% of people hear they can get a life saving vaccine for free and are like, 'nah'"
"After the revolution will be able to fully contextualize every text and there will be no need for censorship"
"Unironically, i think people need to start owning the "virtue signalling" accusation, because that is exactly what theyre asking for -- a signal of the wearer's virtue" [this one caused me to spit up coffee]
This dipshit is an educator. Hide yo kids.
Academics and professors are secretly super insecure. That is one of the reasons they take this pompous, smug attitude of superiority - it’s to compensate for their own inner insecurity. They are insecure because deep down they know they were too scared to ever leave the bubble of school. From pre-school to kindergarten to grade school to junior high to high school to college to grad school to their PhD to assistant teaching to tenure, they stayed inside the same safe little bubble they started when they were four years old. They will deny this but their temper tantrum when you point it out will reveal their true selves. I would actually encourage to be both less insecure AND less smugly pompous, but they cannot shake the insecurity. They know they never tested themselves in the real world or the free market and everything about them is just theoretical. They don’t have a sense of what their true value is in society. All they know is what them and their colleagues say about each other when they get together in the teacher’s lounge to sniff each other’s farts. But even that undermines their self-confidence because they all secretly hate their colleagues and consider them a bunch of old pompous self-deluded losers. Each of them tries to pretend that they are the exception, that their colleagues are losers who couldn’t make it in the real world, sure, but if THEY had ever tried it, why, they would have been a billionaire entrepreneur, a leader of industry, the author of the Great American Novel. But on some level they also know they are just kidding themselves. This is when the outrage against Trump supporters and flyover country and blue collar workers and anti-intellectual hillbillies starts to take over, as they need to project their own insecurities onto others to alleviate their cognitive dissonance.