#poly sci

[northwxrds]

how do you spell political science abbreviated??

polysci

poly sci

polisci

poli sci

Voting ended onMar 14

[spaceacekaiju]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Breach is closed, the world is saved, yet there is still so much left to do. Newt and Hermann are left to sort out everything they've left unsaid, and to find their place in a world post-Kaiju. Newt struggles with romantic guilt, Hermann tries to bridge the gap, and Vanessa just wants her boys to be happy. Meanwhile Tendo deals with hypocrisy and fatherhood, and Alison routinely gives everyone who needs one a swift kick in the ass. They need each other, and somehow come together to form a family unlike one they've ever known.

So I wrote something! It’s been in the works for a long time, holy shit. But here it is, finally live. I’ll do my best to update regularly!

[eatreadpraywritestudy]

day seven // basically finished my poly sci essay tonight! 🙌🏼 and with two days to spare, who would’ve thunk it?! just have to work out some kinks, cite my sources, and i’ll be good to go. honestly, didn’t get all i’d hoped to accomplished today, but tomorrow is another day and today wasn’t all that bad 💪🏼

[eatreadpraywritestudy]

day three // so glad with my productivity today! 💪🏼 headed to the fancy new library downtown after class to write a personal essay for my writing class, plan a poly sci essay, and snack on homemade energy bites. definitely going to make this my thursday routine from now on!

[lilqu33rboi]

thought i'd share this message i sent to my social democrat sister who is not very politically educated; this was very much an infodump just off the top of my head so i'd love to learn more if anyone could lmk what i missed/got wrong!!! :3

reasons why i think democratic politicians and liberal politically educated people are no better than republicans:

1. Most countries in the world operate with a multi-party system (just off the top of my head, for example, canada, the uk, germany, and israel), meaning that instead of two main political parties, there are about 5-10. although the us technically has more than two, they never hold federal positions of power because our system elects the president individually, who then chooses for themselves who can represent them in congress and the senate (which is obviously others from their party). In a multi-party system, the first place party gets, for example, 10 federal representatives, and then it trickles down to the rest, like second place gets 9 seats, third place gets 8, etc. so every party actually has an equal chance at winning. In this system, politicians have no need to compromise or appeal to centrists because they have a large enough voterbase that actually agrees with them that even if they don't win, they can still have a significant effect on individual policy decisions through their representatives, whereas American politicians operate on an all-or-nothing concept which is much higher stakes and requires a lot more compromising to get the majority vote.

2. sort of in this same vein, our current voting system only allows you to pick one candidate on the ballot. most other countries (and on a smaller scale, some us states as well) have implemented ranked choice voting, meaning if i wanted to vote for a green party candidate for example but worry about a republican getting voted in over a democrat, i could rank them in order, green party candidate(s) being first, then dems, then republicans. basically the same point as the last one here.

3. The fact is, politicians are rich. So although they may vary on social justice issues, their economic views will always come down to supporting their class and maintaining their power and influence. If democrats pushed for leftist policies, they would lose their power to control their environment with their money (ie., they can easily donate a million bucks to a company they like and give them much more power than they previously had to do what they want with their money), and they don't want that, so they will continue to support seemingly progressive policies that don't actually change anything to make uneducated voters feel better about voting within the party and supporting their power rather than moving further left. at the same time, they want to convince you that republicans are the enemy and the opposite of you because it makes you feel like you're being radical and making a difference politically, while meanwhile, they continue to stay in power regardless of party and no one has time to fight back because they're too busy fighting with each other. democratic and republican politicians actually work together a lot and there are many instances of dem politicians voting for republican-backed policies more often than democrat-backed ones (including john fetterman, who likes trump's immigration ideals). fun fact, donald trump was a democrat for many years and ran for president as one in the 90's but when he realized that republicans were easier to manipulate through anger and defensiveness and he was good at that, he switched parties (there is actually a clip of a rlly old interview where he was asked which party he would run for if he got involved in politics, and he said republicans because you can say whatever you want and as long as you act confident, they'll believe it). so if that doesn't tell you the arbitrary nature of dems vs republicans, idk what does.

4. This is less prevalent in gen z (a recent survey said that more gen z american voters prefer socialism than capitalism which is the first generation ever to do that) but in every other generation, politicians can count on the propaganda of the cold war to keep people away from leftists. so like in case u forgot, in the 80's the us went on a big anti-communist thread cuz they were afraid of the ussr developing tech faster than them or smth like that. so a lotttt of people still have it drilled into their heads that communism = bad cuz of like stalin and shit even tho he wasn't a communist, he was just totalitarian (basically meaning dictatorship or the government controls literally everything you do, like the handmaids tale), but he called himself a communist so everyone thinks that's what communism is. fun fact, hitler also called himself a communist, but i guess that one didn't stick for some reason and people see him for the fascist he was lmfao. Anyways that was kinda a side tangent but yeah a lot of ppl are afraid of leftists cus of that stuff and dems can count on that fear to keep people from "taking" their power.

[donalddraperdatacomplex]

Sometimes I wish we had incorporated the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary form of government instead of a Presidential one. I suppose one can dream or move, eh.

[13thpythagoras]

scotus = supreme court of the united states

potus = president of the united states

Senatorial Conservative Republicans of the United States

= SCROTUS

[senadimell]

Being a closet historian in a poly-sci related major feels like adding asterisks to every paragraph in the textbook. 

Globalization only started in the 1990s!*

Globalization only started in the 19th century!*

*(I read an entire book on globalization as seen by a small area in sub-Saharan Africa, fittingly titled The World and a Very Small Place in Africa. I don’t remember a lot of the specifics, but we spent weeks talking about Niumi’s integration with the world economy pre-transatlantic slave trade.)

bUt GeNeRaLiZaBiLiTy!