u/solibearity860

I'm a blue collar anarchist interested in better understanding how academia shapes the attitudes and communication habits of students. Over the course of my 2 decades of activism I've noticed degree-bearers in left-wing political spaces carry a lot of class chauvinism with them, privileging "soft skills" over other communication styles, and adopting conflict resolution strategies that sound like they're reading out of a human resources binder. It's been a lot of years since I've read critical pedagogy (mainly a slim volume called Making It Up As We Go Along by Chris Mercigliano) so my attempts at finding references has been just punching search terms into google, and I think we all know how useful that is these days. Thanks in advance.

remember that time Dukey tried to push Garak over the railing at Quarks and Garak was like do it b*******tch, and Quark deescalates by telling Dukey that Odo would be thrilled to have him in a holding cell? hes right lol i can hear Odo going weeellll, this must be my lucky day, i suppose i should go put some latinum on the dabo table. now dont go anywhere! and chortles his way out of the room while Dukey fumes.

starting/continuing in no particular order, many spoilers, very correct opinions incoming.

s7e14 Chimera:

top-tier season 7 episode, altho very arguably the worst season so the competition is a little weak. very cool how gentle and candid and unselfish Kira is toward Odo. lots of people hate that couple and I get it, Odo is a fascist cop, but he’s written interestingly and Rene Auberjeanois (sp) was a solid actor so he gets a pass from me.

anyway Las is really funny, as was the way Odo said “being fog, whats it look like?”

Another highlight was Quark: “this is no time for a changeling pride parade” which i find funny mainly because of how weird a comment it was especially in the 90s.

i rate this one 7 out of 10 buckets

s7e15 bada bing bada boom, or as I call it, Deep Ocean’s Nine.

very silly business, I’m always keen on seeing Kira be sexy, and the premise is kinda dub, but probably the best part is Sisko’s aggravation with the historical whitewashing that the Vegas holosuite program engages in. Of course the episode ends on a really unsatisfying note where we’re given a lecture about how hes being too woke or something and Sisko immediately capitulates. Maybe even some post-racial colorblindness discourse going on in there, which is extremely 90s.

oh, and the finale “the best is yet to come” while lovely coming out of Mr. Brooks’ mouth is also just corny af in the way its used to suggest that the series finale is going to slap. which it did not lol.

i give this one 3 badas out of 10 bangs