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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 2h

You have a problem with America’s descent into fascism? Take it up with the syllabus. It’s that thing’s fault.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 2h

Duh, the Democratic establishment is a random gender studies syllabus from Oberlin. Everyone knows that.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If you’re gullible enough to believe in racism, you’re gullible enough to believe just about anything.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just think how beautiful it will be to one day get a message from a dearly missed love one touting no-fee bets all day on FanDuel with the code “lovefrombeyond”

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I guess it’s too much to ask anymore that it be run like an institution of education.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Sometimes I wish this university was run like a business (professional, accountable) rather than like the Business School (amateur-hour shitshow).

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every popular kid’s class presentation

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ben Martin: “I had become as savage as they were…” The Cherokees: “Ow, Ben, what the fuck are you doing? You weren’t like this at dinner!”

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I mean I guess it did kind of end up being more historically accurate that way…

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Obviously I wasn’t expecting much from “The Patriot” but the film mixing up its dates and thus having Mel Gibson tell a story of how he started randomly murdering what would have been his Cherokee allies for no reason meant I was the only one in the theater laughing my head off at that scene.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just to underline a point, this is about 1/4000th of his net wealth, the equivalent of me dropping like around $100 across all races.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

At least I still get to teach at the sort of discount public regional for slackers that JMU used to be

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There’s a real sadness in not recognizing your alma mater anymore.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Because, fun fact, spending the whole day talking about Columbus isn’t actually decolonizing anything.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy IPD! I know Bluesky loves centering genocide but maybe spend some time today learning one other new fact about the long history of Native America?

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It would take abandoning the soft Protestantism at heart of American politics, where forgiving one’s enemies is morally superior to defeating them.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Falling Down” and esp. the cultural celebration of Michael Douglas’s character in it.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Only mistake was writing it in the past tense instead of the future tense.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Truest thing I ever wrote. Ten years ago to the day.

Screenshot of text that reads: “I just need to say this: Trump was never a candidate. He was never a policy advocate or a platform. He was chaos in a suit; a metaphorical truckload of fertilizer aimed straight at the heart of American governance. His "positions" were sticks of dynamite planted by every roar from his crowds. They armed him and sent him to destroy all national and international law because they have developed a worldview that government's purpose is to artificially elevate women, minorities, foreigners, and other "inferiors" above the rightful rulers of the world (white, male Americans). That worldview is not gone”

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ironically, they’re almost always men with shaved heads wearing fashionably tiny glasses..

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do well in your Gen Eds, kids, otherwise you too might end up a low-level fitness influencer hustling to break 600 views on TikTok.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just out of curiosity I went and checked in on the “academic weapon” guy and, whew, there’s a cautionary tale about peaking in college.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Remember: everything you hate was designed by an engineer to serve some MBA’s attempt to goose shareholder value.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All this blame for arts & sciences and no one’s talking about the unholy alliance of the business and engineering schools that gave us the Age of Enshittification.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Sometimes we disagree about facts, sometimes we disagree about values, but the fun part is finding someone more marginal than me who the bully can target.”

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The best cure for bullying is to sit at the bully’s lunch table and join them in ridiculing someone else.”

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Colonial Williamsburg were being made today, it would be restoring a small town to its 1870s appearance. Feel old yet?

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Imagine what we could create in a world where rage donations went to historical societies, libraries, and institutes instead of long-shot Senate bids.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If they truly represent their state, no, they will never learn from their obvious failures and never change direction.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am not joking when I say this. Ai will spare you the envy of other’s talents The jealousy of people cheering their accomplishments The pain of gravity’s pull on your own limitations The unbearable bliss of being a human on this Earth

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lol, I’ll never be able to wash off enough faculty stink to get a public role. Best I could ever hope for is some thankless gig in a Provost’s office putting lipstick on pigs.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This public-private venture will no doubt leverage Miami’s position as a world-class city and connect CMU students directly to job creators, building the future leaders of tomorrow and with Ai-enhanced curriculum and no instructors taking up valuable real estate with their, ew, books

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sorry in advance to the Carnegie Mellon humanities faculty who will be laid off to boost the uni’s credit rating in advance of the debt restructuring that will be necessary in five years.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And as a non-profit the uni can absorb %100 of the liability and realize almost none of the profit. A win-win!!

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glad someone is finally remembering higher ed’s true purpose: artificially inflating real estate prices in trendy urban zip codes.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dude’s even lost the STL media FB comments sections and that Klan-show is his base.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Missouri GOP is absolutely gonna run Sophie Cunningham in place of Eric Schmitt in 2028.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Smith had mis-referenced St. Augustine of Hippo, though, or mistaken Nietzsche’s “The Birth of Tragedy” for “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” they’d have been all over it, chapter and verse.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Republican party is now staffed nose-to-tail with the sort of dweeby College Republicans who despise anything so common as sports so, no, none of them knew.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He is every mediocre suburban red-state tough guy. No wonder his voters feel represented by him.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Schmitt also maybe lies here because I don’t think we was ever actually a prosecutor? He was a corporate lawyer who got pipelined to Attorney General because he was too stupid to think for himself.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“America’s greatest mistake since 1821”

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Missouri continuing to prove why it should have its statehood revoked.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What they’re feeling is the joy of a new intellectual challenge and that feels “fun” even if it’s harder than memorizing 86 terms.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Inspired by a conversation I just had with students who were grateful my class is not making them memorize 86 different terms and instead asking them to spend hours digesting theory and applying it to real-world problems.

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