mattpb.bsky.social
He/him. Physically disabled. Canadian-American; fond of rye toast, when he can get it. Dreams a little.
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Coming from Michigan, I can assure you he was both
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Who really went round the twist when he decided “bankers” had stolen a senate race from him
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I’ve argued Israel isn’t really a “Junior partner” in any real sense because there is no political will in the US to get more involved in the Middle East. Israeli threats to take the ball and go home are more credible than the US’s.
open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...
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The US has a lot of power on paper, but that only becomes leverage if you’re willing to use it. If everyone knows you’re not willing to pay that political price, you have no leverage.
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I'm not sure either party has ever learned how to leash its most special and precious junior partner.
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See the Biden administration's active encouragement of the Israelis in their invasion of southern Lebanon— McGurk and Hochstein (the "reasonable one") were very enthusiastic about it.
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One starts doing the legwork at a certain point, and consider places you might have the ability to flee to if things get too ugly in America, and you start noticing that all your options are unstable because America, the global hegemony, was a key part of their regional stability.
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Trump just gives off the vibe that he can’t be bothered!
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The administration has factions; the biggest hawk, Bolton, got purged, but there are others (I think Hegseth), who are annoyed the Biden-era action against the Houthis and Iran wasn't decisive enough, and aren't decisive enough to go to war themselves but don't want to block Israel from doing so.
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And Gabbard apparently gets paid in rubles not rials
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This also is what Wilhelm II (perhaps Trump's closest historical analog) failed to do - he was committed to defend the Hapsburgs but didn't meaningfully constrain them when they started fights much bigger than what they could finish
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At least he hasn't started forcing the Navy to build battleships he drew?
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Wait did Wilhelm do that too?
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*turns and stares in anger at Fernando Wood and Fernando Wood's paper*
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I feel like it is a condemnation of modernity that I have opinions about who is going to be mayor of New York City.
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I should get to live my whole life entirely innocent of knowledge about the mayor of New York. It’s like, if I were a peasant in the 9th century Mekong delta I wouldn’t need to know who was running shit in Hanoi. This feels like a regression, to me.
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But my last mayoral race was between a Republican and a Libertarian so
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Had a double take there, reading Ford had gone on an antisemitic tirade, while on a camping trip with Harvey *Firestone* !
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Also "oh you think Henry Ford helped out Hitler because he hated Jews" like idk does this seem like something an antisemite would publish?
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Say, what was the name of his city, again?
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Henry Ford, of Dearborn.
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Far from the biggest issue here, but lol at the america-brained use of “bipartisan”. Nazi Germany: famous for its 2-party system.
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Hitler always be privatizing services.
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I mean it was kinda damning when the social democrats said "after Hitler, our turn!" and tacitly aided the Nazis through accelerationism
or was that someone else?
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Privatising numerous government services in... Weimar Germany???
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The SPD fought Hitler a fuck-ton more than the KPD ever did…
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Famous Social Democrat Paul von Hindenburg.
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This one's severely brain damaged EVEN FOR A TANKIE
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"The liberals voted for the Enabling Acts" one I get. It's extremely dumb, but if you convince yourself that Zentrum and the DVP were actually the Weimar equivalent to the Dems, it makes sense.
But the SPD rather famously did not do that.
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@khartsun.bsky.social has the best explanation for this behavior
bsky.app/profile/khar...
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The Catholic Church's party isn't liberal by Euro definition either
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Zentrum had swung substantially rightward, even without von Papen, and most of the actual liberal leaders were dead before the Depression?
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Peele has said he suffered massive imposter syndrome for a while afterwards. I can relate.
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mr. defunctland isnt on the spectrum he IS the spectrum