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Ben Wetherbee βš“β„πŸ

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❄ English prof & WPA, Northern Michigan U ❄ rhetorical theory & history, writing, film ❄ review ed., enculturation ❄ aspiring Yooper ❄ union thug ❄ he/him #teamrhetoric

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2027 Call for Proposals - Conference on College Composition and Communication Resources Proposal deadline for the 2027 CCCC Annual Convention is 9:00 a.m. ET on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. Full Call for Proposals Criteria and Guidelines General Information Program Format Area Clus...
07.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

*downs shot of Angostura, tries not to grimace*

23.02.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you say "bitter" like it's a bad thing

23.02.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the correct answer. Thank you.

People out here hating on blueberries and grapefruit ... I just can't anymore.

23.02.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people ALT: a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people
23.02.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That Selmer-style guitar ... omg. This rules.

15.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Olympics announcers sure do love mentioning repeatedly how certain female athletes are also -- *gasp* -- mothers of several children

13.02.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college:

The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
William Faulkner and Robert Hayden
The Physics of Music
The History of Cinema
19th Century African American Women's Lit

31.01.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The English department houses a robust major, multiple minors (including one in film studies), and multiple graduate programs at the MA and MFA levels. The film studies hire will have opportunities to teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses.

28.01.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Applications are due February 28.

NMU is a wonderful place to work. We have good working conditions, wonderful students, a hella unionized faculty, and a damn-near unbeatable location along the Lake Superior coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I love it here.

28.01.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The Northern Michigan University English Department is hiring for a **tenure-track** position in film studies, and yours truly is chairing the hiring committee. Please share widely, and encourage folks to contact me if there are any questions.

jobs.nmu.edu/.../english-....

28.01.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
jaderemedy β€’ 4h ago
And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

jaderemedy β€’ 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

25.01.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 9633 πŸ” 3340 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 241

β€œWe’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”

β€œWhat does it do?”

β€œWe were hoping you could tell us.”

22.01.2026 07:36 πŸ‘ 2130 πŸ” 834 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 29

The bloody ghost of my ancestor Lt. John Bacon, shot dead by a redcoat musket during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19th, 1775, appeared at the side of my bed last night and said anyone can be American as long as they aren’t English

26.12.2025 20:42 πŸ‘ 2833 πŸ” 396 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 12
Stick-in-spokes meme

Stick-in-spokes meme

Live footage of me managing to schedule my article-revisions due date on top of all that stuff this week

15.12.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually, Jeremiah Johnson might be better than clapping

14.12.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

<3

14.12.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america ' ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

Just submitted what I hope are final revisions (final significant revisions, anyway) on a piece I've been trying to publish in one form or another for seven years.

#teamrhetoric

14.12.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

EXACTLY.

11.12.2025 04:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Book II - Chapter 21 : Aristotle's Rhetoric Welcome to the online version of Aristotle's Rhetoric. These hypertext pages are based on the 1954 translation of noted classical scholar W. Rhys Roberts.

Yeah, lol. I should have just linked right to Aristotle:

kairos.technorhetoric.net/stasis/2017/...

07.12.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

GnōmΔ“ or maxim

doi.org/10.1093/acre...

07.12.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Greed is Destroying the World
Greed is Destroying the World YouTube video by Drew Gooden

Might be the best video essay of 2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Z3...

05.12.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's so frustrating that Drake is associated with the Athena owl, especially since he's literally named after a different bird

30.11.2025 01:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are strange ways contemporary language about student empowerment is resonant with toxic bootstraps individualism, and what do we do with that? Anyway, there are two chapters about MOOCs that I think set the stage for the business/ideological model of β€œAI.” www.psupress.org/books/titles...

30.11.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯‚

27.11.2025 17:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can't stop laughing about the Bill Ackman "may I meet you?" thing

23.11.2025 15:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They line up perfectly.

22.11.2025 02:32 πŸ‘ 5305 πŸ” 1137 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 40

βœ‹

19.11.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯± call me when we invent a machine that can do better than Erasmus in 1512

19.11.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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