So much right-wing discourse right now boils down to “I think people should be legally compelled to like me, no matter how much of an asshole I am”

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YES! everyone I know feels this. maybe we need a name for this strange new affect of simultaneously negative and (deeply) positive aesthetic response particular to the slop era— where you love something profoundly precisely *because* it is janky

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in the academic writing game, i like to say there are two kinds of players, those who see the aim as communicating important ideas as clearly and succinctly as possible for as broad an audience as possible and those who subsume this ideal to a higher goal: making bad puns

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Only because Eleanor of Aquitaine was born too early.

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Sometimes my students come into class w the misunderstanding that you can “argue anything” in an essay, and, no, no you cannot. The frame for a successful argument is set by your understanding, the topic, and your audience’s access to the discourse. None of these are infinitely malleable.

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