DD>CD

Frankly, we created knowledge and educated people in ways that, on balance, tended to undercut longstanding social power relations. Groups advantaged by those power relations the launched a decades-long crusade against higher ed in response. That’s what we did to bring about this awful moment.

And also it’s not a war…

GWB-esque

Whatever close enough

With the ancillary benefit that charging $10 a swing would allow you to fund social security through 2070.

Electoral map for anyone who runs on a platform of letting people individually sledgehammer Trump’s arch and ballroom into rubble, Berlin Wall style.

Society if we didn’t just implicitly give blanket permission for rich men to be absolute sociopaths.

What are the odds we get a late night truth social post announcing some kind of diplomatic breakthrough/capitulation from Iran (breathlessly parroted by all major media outlets) before markets open tomorrow?

Ah tails it is.

This obviously doesn’t explain the past ~16 months, but I think it goes a long way toward explaining the sudden break between sentiment and objective indicators at some point in 2021.

Some of this has to stem from >30% of the population being in thrall to a cult of personality who was suddenly out of power. In Aug 2021 Biden’s honeymoon period collapsed w the AFG withdrawal, and right-wing fever dreamers started getting traction, convincing everyone that everything was terrible.

As a self study to identify universities’ own areas for improvement…fine.

But as a broader assessment, any report that doesn’t center on the decades-long frontal assault by right-wing ideologues hostile to the entire notion of science and social mobility through education is absurd on its face.

Pretty flimsy claim to supreme executive power here, tbh

See also: the now-ubiquitous “centers for free speech” or “institutes for viewpoint diversity” or “programs for free enterprise” or….

I post a lot of awful takes on here but this one at least is shaping up alright

Seriously how does overleaf’s built in word count tool suck so hard? I’m 17 pages into a 1.5 spaced paper and it’s telling me 2200 words??

I’m old enough to remember when the JCPOA was an existential threat to US national security because it had a sunset clause.

You cannot convince me this isn’t the same person

I’d love to shit on Vance personally, but I need to remind everyone that “negotiating skill” isn’t really a thing & bargaining outcomes are 98% determined by structural conditions like “who’s winning?” & “who has better exit options?” & Iran has the US over a barrel right now so hard to blame JD.

Yet another example of normalcy bias and a general inability to wrap our heads around counterfactuals crippling our ability to grasp reality. People need to understand this for what it is - a policy of mass death on par with the worst monsters of our history books.

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Me when my kids are hitting each other but I don’t have it in me to do any actual parenting so I just pretend not to see it

Hey at least he called some white people low-IQ for once

Yeah maybe just an assertion of their right to dictate where/which ships can transit the strait as precedent for later. Either way, seems...fraught.

Seems likely…I’d probably categorize that under “continue choking off the strait while claiming to have opened it up”

So they’re going to continue choking off the strait while claiming to have opened it up? Are they saying the restricted area is hazardous for reasons now beyond their control, i.e. they’ve already mined it?

Ambiguity is often essential to ceasefire negotiations. It allows both sides to spin things at home while tempers cool, buying time for more talks and space for future concessions.

It can also just be a bunch of lying liars lying about the fact that they lied us into a world-historical goat rodeo.

Agree that’s the more salient threat, though I don’t think a reciprocal blockade would be too hard to implement. Escorts also force PLAN to choose between weakening the blockade vs starting the shooting war they’re desperate to avoid. Not a permanent fix, but can take the edge off, as you say.

Yes. This is also why I think people are way overhyping the threat of a successful Chinese attack on Taiwan. Defense has a huge advantage in a world of precision strike capabilities.

An attack on Taiwan ultimately requires lots of transport across 100m of open water. It’d be a suicide mission.