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Echo chambers are good and I'm here to create one. Future failed academic.
Also I'm not the Welsh comic artist, but I hope they join soon too.
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Also missing that over this same period the share of non-college men went from ~86% to ~63%. Makes it less clear how much of this change is already-existing class separation taking on an educational character vs. the relative impoverishment of certain classes.
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The fact that the Senate Minority Leader is actually right now as we speak lobbying against a new Iran Deal is genuinely insane.
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Yes, it is. The US is a great example because it is in a slow transition from ethnostate to birthright citizenship. Its periods of more ethnic supremacy have been periods of greater violence. Supremacy is the absolute evil of our age and you're sitting here telling me 'everyone's doing it.' Grow up.
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... it's inherently exclusionary, divides the world into good and bad people, and that tends to create horrific violence. It's really not complicated.
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Like we can play the game where you name a country and I explain why their ethno-nationalism is bad (hiding Nazi money, bad immigration policy and laws against Muslim religious expression). But the point is...
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I do think there's a historic American critique of Italian and Japanese ethno-nationalism that we can draw on here. The critique is called "bludgeoning them into submission because they declared war on the whole world"
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The IMF. Like the amount of influence they or international investors have had over domestic policy is variable over time, and when it is higher, it's usually bad for poor countries.
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Yeah but they can like... have different policies. Like the differences in imf loan conditions across countries and across time are huge. Again, neoliberalism does not start with the founding of the IMF but much later.
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Neoliberalism, otoh, is mainly about restrictions on sovereign govts and what they are able to do. In global south it was mostly imposed from outside via conditions on loans and pressure from investors. And I think when imposed it leads to, at best, stagnation. So some differentiation is important
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My argument is that the difference-maker is domestic economic control rather than free trade as we understand it today. Anticolonialism does overlap with liberalism and a lot of indep. movements were led by liberals - but there were liberals among the colonizers too. It's a big ideology!
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Basically it seems like you are conflating "the creation a world full of sovereign nations that can trade with each other" with neoliberalism, which I think most would call a much narrower project.
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I'm pretty sure I read this in an Our World in Data article but I think that a persuasive way to read these kinds of chart is that decolonization was the biggest step ever toward global equality since incomes diverged.
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If I could snap my fingers and replace Chuck Schumer with @BlueWaveThankYouJoe2008, I would in an instant. These folks are more committed to Democratic power and fighting the Republican Party than elected Democrats themselves are. I don't know what it's going to take for them to see that.
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I think among voters (as opposed to posters) there's not as big a difference between those things as you're saying. People don't vote when demoralized by/bored with their choices, rather than taking an unbreakable moral stance. And that includes e.g. people mad at Biden over Palestine
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Currently reading through this, I think it's useful for visualizing what happened
catalist.us/whathappened...
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I guess I would just say that definitionally you have to chase unreliable voting blocs. To put it another way, we had a winning coalition in 2020 and then lost it. You can blame those people but you do have to get them back to win again. And it was both vote changers and abstainers.
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I mean, is there another option? There are two places to get new voters, people who voted for the other guy and people who didn't vote. We probably need some of both.
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Instead of the stupid "We're not indoctrinating students, we can't even get them to do the reading *laughs on twitter*", we should have said "Yes, ideas are powerful and transformative, education is a form of soulcraft, and we're here to defend our vision of a just society."
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This person seems to be trying to apply the Timothy Mitchell (and others) argument about USAID dumping wheat to benefit US agriculture to HIV medication. The one problem is that HIV medication isn't wheat.
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Hung up before I could learn that I needed Google play gift cards to maintain my status
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*Technically the WAR is for a race and not a candidate, that's why I think it's probably most useful here where you are comparing two candidates against the same incumbent
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A candidate combining these two could theoretically win, the problem is finding someone who can credibly claim to authentically run to the center. My feeling is that Beto was so far left that you wouldn't have to go all the way to Allred to have a chance if you could channel Beto's vibes /end
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Because they are such different candidates I feel like it gives us an idea of what their strengths may have been. Beto ran a campaign based on authenticity and integrity, Allred ran away from Biden on key issues, emphasizing his independence from the Democratic party
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They give Beto a +5.5 WAR and Allred a +6.6.* These are both pretty good, though that can also be put down at least partly to Cruz being unpopular. They are also very close, which I think is notable given that Beto was running as a left of center Democrat and Allred as a moderate, esp on immigration
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Isn't this a reference to the old conspiracy theory that the entire Palestinian population in 1948 were like Ottoman crisis actors brought in to try to take the "empty" land back from the Jews?
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In the West Bank I would say I don't have religion which was mostly fine. But one guy said "oh well everyone is born Muslim then converts to their religion so you must be Muslim then." Damn bro you got me.
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That's all true, but I think it's worth noting that this genocide in Sudan began under the Biden administration, which dragged its feet in responding--only taking any action to identify and sanction genocidal actors after Biden was already a lame duck.
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Sorry the *moderate* Kurds