Andy Vitek

@avitek.bsky.social

11082 Followers 1169 Following

Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters. #BillsMafia

„Are u mindless? Why are you going on bothering people? Why are u doing this? U bring shame to me. Go on inside and stay there. Untill now you were a good snake, u were relaxed and calm, now why are you wondering the neighboorhood? Go on inside and stay inside."

RESPONDING TO THE FLURRY OF VICTORIES by DSA candidates, some complacent souls ask, What’s so bad about socialism? It’s working well in Sweden.

That’s a common misconception. Sweden implemented semi-socialist policies in the 1960s featuring extremely high taxes, government ownership of key industries, extensive regulation of the economy, and generous welfare benefits. But growth slowed, wages stagnated, debt accumulated, and in the early 1990s, the country experienced a terrible financial crash. In the short term, it spent as much as 4 percent of GDP and even nationalized two banks to prevent a financial collapse and save its banking sector—but the long-term reforms that followed focused more on fiscal discipline.

Hasan tweet: our real president is benjamin netenyahu and you love it, cuck

If a human being loses his political status, he should, according to the
implications of the inborn and inalienable rights of man, cor,ne under exactly the situation for which the declarations of such general rights provided. Actually the opposite is the case. It seems that a man who is nothing but a man has lost the very qualities which make it possible for other people to treat him as a fellow-man. This is one of the reasons why it is far more difficult to destroy the legal personality of a criminal, that is of a man who has taken upon himself the responsibility for an act whose consequences now determine his fate, than of a man who has been disallowed all common human responsibilities.

Mystique rocking the most Disney+ Star Wars ass shit you've ever seen.

Post from Jason Concepcion: argentina is like if staten island italians had a country where they spoke spanish

Dave Rubin tweet: The Odyssey was an absolute masterpiece.

The first reaction to the saturated home market, lack of raw materials,
and growing crises, was export of capital. The owners of superfluous wealth
first tried foreign investment without expansion and without political con
trol, which resulted in an unparalleled orgy of swindles, financial scandals,
and stock-market speculation, all the more alarming since foreign invest
ments grew much more rapidly than domestic ones.48 Big money resulting
from oversaving paved the way for little money, the product of the little
fellow's work. Domestic enterprises, in order to keep pace with high profits
from foreign investment, turned likewise to fraudulent methods and attracted
an increasing number of people who, in the hope of miraculous returns,
threw their money out of the window. The Panama scandal in France, the
Grundungsschwindel in Germany and Austria, became classic examples.
Tremendous losses resulted from the promises of tremendous profits. The
owners of little money lost so much so quickly that the owners of superfluous
big capital soon saw themselves left alone in what was, in a sense, a battle
field. Having failed to change the whole society into a community of
gamblers they were again superfluous, excluded from the normal process
of production to which, after some turmoil, all other classes returned
quietly, if somewhat impoverished and embittered.4

Tweet: Such hack writing, setting all those clues they'll kill off McConnell only to fridge one of the queer characters.

Keynes: Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Silvio getting ready to take action against the plague of anti-Italian discrimination.

The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including emails between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.

Fallout: Everyone disliked that.

2016 piece from Chait titled "Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination."

Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point

Donny from the Big Lebowski asking "Are these the Nazis, Walter?"

A very distraught Reynera exclaiming "I may appear to have the weak and feeble body of a woman, but i possess the heart and spirit of a king."

Hasan having noted grifter and crackpot "PROFESSOR JIANG" on his stream.

This thing sucks - coolest thing ever meme

Magdi Jacobs tweet: DSAers are like, "Democrats are CRYING because we DOMINATED them" and really it's more like, "No, I'm frustrated b/c I have concerns you're going to give the GOP more power. Also I know I'll be slightly more baseline irritated by politics for the next 2 years, which kinda sucks."

1. Science fiction as a medium for political analysis
2. Introduction to political science and media studies as modes of analysis
3. ‘Star Trek’ and the politics of utopia
4. ‘Children of Men’ and the politics of dystopia
5. Anarchy, international relations, and geopolitics in "The Expanse" (2 weeks)
6. "Arrival" and strategic decision making
7. "Dune" and the politics of colonialism
8. Democracy, sovereignty, and civil-military relations in "Battlestar Galactica" (2 weeks)
9. "Mad Max: Fury Road" and the politics of climate change
10. "Starship Troopers" and the politics of nationalism
11. Repression, resistance, and insurgency in "Star Wars: Andor" (2 weeks)
12. "Bladerunner 2049" and the politics of artificial intelligence

vanilla sex
is too boring.

the
only
way

i can cum is TO BE HIT BY A BUS

Dante and Virgil encounter the Electric Mayhem in the depths of hell.

Since the bourgeoisie claimed to be the guardian of Western traditions
and confounded all moral issues by parading publicly virtues which it not
only did not possess in private and business life, but actually held in con
tempt, it seemed revolutionary to admit cruelty, disregard of human values, and general amorality, because this at least destroyed the duplicity upon which the existing society seemed to rest. What a temptation to flaunt extreme attitudes in the hypocritical twilight of double moral standards, to wear publicly the mask of cruelty if everybody was patently inconsiderate and pretended to be gentle, to parade wickedness in a world, not of wickedness, but of meanness! The intellectual elite of the twenties who knew little of the earlier connections between mob and bourgeoisie was certain that the old game of cpater le bourgeois could be played to perfection if one started to shock society with an ironically exaggerated picture of its own behavior.

Dark Knight Rises Bane meme, Mamdani asking Jeffries: do you feel in charge?

Van Jones on CNN clearing going through some things while talking about the NY primary results.

Tom Dans was appointed by Trump as the chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission in December. When I met him for lunch in Washington, earlier this year, he declined to speak further on the record, except to articulate a narrow, symbiotic vision for the future: “My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China—and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster.”

Frank Sbotka in The Wire: You know what the trouble is, Brucie? We used to make shit in this country. Build shit. Now we just put out hand in the next guy's pocket.

You might need to check your Bluesky account. Someone is claiming to be you and attacking Seth Abramson under your name. They are making you look really bad, saying that Seth is a crank and charlatan when everyone knows that Seth is a Trump biographer who knows better than most of us the inner workings of the deranged mind of our current “president.” I would definitely let Bluesky know you are being impersonated. No way a Penn State college professor wouldn’t know better than what was stated on your account ! Just wanted to give you a heads up.

The Good Place, Michael telling Chidi "this is the time-moment when nothing never occurs."

Elmo tweet: Elmo just wants to set the record straight... ❤️❤️ GO TEAM USA! ⚽