Darin Self

@darinself
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at BYU. I was once a graduate school imposter on Twitter before a fragile oligarch turned it into 4chan.

Teaching/Researching Authoritarianism and Democracy.

Websitehttps://www.darinself.com/
Mastodon activity surging all of a sudden

@mcopelov and speaking of Larry Mullen Jr this is one of my favorite parts of his performances with Sunday Bloody Sunday. He moves from providing rhythm to providing the emotional heart of the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnAqlrMKQvA

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Paris 2015 Live)

YouTube

@mcopelov oh 100% there is somehow, a subtlety to his drumming that impresses me.

I think one of the greatest songs ever is With or Without You and its largely due to Larry's drumming and Adam's bass work.

@mcopelov I'm listening to Bono's book right now, and he makes a lot more sense to me than previously.

But I still think Bono is one of the best rock singers of the past 40 years and The Edge is on another planet.

@mcopelov I get that people don't like Bono's eclecticism and that their post-Achtung Baby music has been more misses than hits, but I see a lot of people hating them.
Why is U2 such a polarizing band?

On the way into work there was an NPR story on Utah's new voucher program and all the proponent's arguments relied on completely faulty understanding of statistics.

So yes, there was a lot of internal screaming.

Alright, I came back to give this site a second chance and my feed is completely blank...
@profmusgrave As someone who recently lived on $30k a year this is laughable
@mcopelov Kinda insane to think that its likely the three best teams in the NL are all in the East.