to all of you who say it's not worth it: it is to me. he called me a fucking bernie bro. he owned me so hard. I will own him back. have fun reading 20 pages of email bitch half of which are just literal excerpts from the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping and the Governance of China, if you ever unironically stan fukuyama in my presence again I will email you just the entirety of capital out of disgust. read theory fucker

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (2 children)

this bitch is 5000 words and like 6 pages on a word doc i wrote it in like ten minutes it is extremely passive aggressive sent less go

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

If you banged it out in 10 minutes and it's that long a second draft would have maybe been smart before sending.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

i had my dad edit it so i wouldnt get expelled or look stupid

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Comrade dad. I usually sit on something like that overnight and then edit so I look less like a raging loon.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

he's a lib but he's one of those "respect people's beliefs" libs so he doesn't really change the essence of what I write which is lit. I vented like half an hour last time after class to him

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

Probably good to have a lib look at it anyway since that's who you're sending it to.

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

this bitch is 5000 words and like 6 pages on a word doc i wrote it in like ten minutes

Hey can I borrow your quick writing abilities or ability to focus for a day lmao

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

sure just get really really mad and type stream of consciousness, then check grammar. a skill i have mastered for polisci papers.

the compilation of evidence is the hard part. Write it like you're lenin, lenin gets really mad and writes but also cleans it after and people love it

also this is adhd hyperfocus i zoned out in class writing this lmao i just got so mad

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (2 children)

It'd be a bit harder to work up that emotion for history, for long gone events, or historiography, for reviewing other works on long gone events :thinkin-lenin:

I also got the problem that I can't stand not having it be perfect as I write it, maybe I ought to dictate more, I'm fine with editing that

But I think these are good tips, thanks :kim-salute:

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

I Hemingway it, write drunk, edit sober. I understand my own stream of consciousness and come back later and turn it into real sentences and move stuff around so it flows better. It takes a lot longer than actually doing the writing.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

fair but obligatory

for history

undemocratic collapse of the soviet union under mikhail gorbachev and subsequent neoliberalization

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, that I would like to do a paper on. Right now it's just a book report on the racial component of secession of the South, which is something I should be juiced up for, but I'm required to look through the book to find good quotes, so sadly I can't just type a bunch down :yes-honey-left:

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

quick tip, take a bunch of pictures of good quotes and run an online ocr service on them. it's not perfect, it's sometimes actively bad, but it's much easier to copy

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

It'll be a bit more slow since I don't have a wire that can connect to my phone with, I'll have to email them.

That said, wow, this looks awesome, thanks :meow-floppy: