John Tobin
PhD Candidate at UW Madison - Early 20th century China and Tibet
- This was me reading Sapiens. Driven onwards by the pure, consuming fire of rage
- Reposted by John Tobinonce again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals
- My sources are telling me there has never been a better time to Discover History in China
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- Reposted by John TobinReally hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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- Reposted by John Tobini think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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- Reposted by John TobinUS higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
- Chan literature should operate on Dragon Ball rules. You hype up Monk A just to have him get instantly smoked by Monk B in order to impress the audience with Monk B’s power level
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- I enjoyed the movie, but Elphaba was running the most incompetent insurgency campaign I have ever seen
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- Reposted by John TobinMy whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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- Did anyone else get the vibe that Knives Out 3 was really about Protestant churches but just slapped a coat of Catholic aesthetics on top? Everything from the politics (good and bad) to the way characters pray seemed so different than the dynamics (good and bad) in Catholic churches
- One of the biggest things I try to get students to understand is that the transition from community to society-type social bonds 1) is absolutely necessary for scale and legibility of institutions 2) comes with tons of tradeoffs and new problems 3) drives most people experiencing it insane with rage
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- Honestly I had a very similar reaction. I don’t have a lot of respect for people who are advising panic and cowardice in order to seem savvy, especially while still openly posting antigovernment stuff under their legal names
- Reposted by John TobinYou know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
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- Every time you think you got a handle on this, it gets weirder
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- 800 years of occupation and colonization avenged by the Irish becoming pfp greatest literary fiction authors in the English language
- Once when I was like 8, a priest just read a passage from Walter Payton’s autobiography out loud for an uncomfortably long time as his homily during mass Included the anecdote about how Payton would run up a hill to be quicker on his feet
- The ideological content in Annie (1982) was wild, not including what you would guess from remembering the basic story Yeah rich guy saves orphan, lots of 30s pop culture nostalgi, but also they had FDR make Daddy Warbucks and Annie co-heads of the Works Progress Administration
- Almost historically accurate, but you also would be required to write poems about: 1. How much you miss your buddy who just went home after hanging out 2. How much you love to day drink (and night drink) 3. How unfair it is that the government doesn’t recognize your talent and give you a job
- I was genuinely shocked how big the gap felt
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- Honestly feel like Crawford never disappoints Maybe I haven’t watched enough of his fights but it was wild seeing him consistently beating Canelo *in the pocket* like he wasn’t bothered
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- Lets goooo
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