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Teacher, researcher, globalist, republican. Banned from Russia, because dictators fear the truth. Currently clean on OPSEC. tompepinsky.com
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I want to patiently explain that this is exactly why U.S. national security interests depend on maintaining a trained and effective "Voice of America" broadcasting service, and nurturing deep area and linguistic knowledge, and I also want to lose my goddamn mind

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Josh Malina once knocked on my office door looking for directions

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

presidentialism, man

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

New open access article online! Find @tompepinsky.com new article, in which he traces #Indonesias democratic decline to the interaction of electoral rules, presidential politics and political cleavages. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Realizing that Gavin Newsom is America's Macron (grudgingly laudatory)

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This is the messaging that the Democratic Party needs. Not just the content, the style. Sincere, principled, angry.

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Anyone who gives an interview to the Washington Post could face this treatment. Next time you get that call from a journalist, you might want to ask explicitly whether they plan to report on your political activities.

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Liberals like me actually love it when people try to use liberal as a slander. It's like a Power-Up that makes me want to defend your rights even harder, right in your mutualfunding face.

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we devised a test to see if American libertarians exist

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John Candy saying "Barfolomew" is still the funniest thing that 7 year old Tom Pepinsky ever heard www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBw-...

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The Great Khan follows the Old Gods as he commands the Maize Horde

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The new, more balanced panel will include members of the idiot and charlatan communities.

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a senior political scientist recently described type-2 titles to me as "affirmations" and I think about this all the time

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A useful way to think about AI slop in a social media age is that two generations of people accustomed to YouTube have been given the ability to watch cartoons about the news that they find most amenable to their politics

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I can confirm that this pediatrician will tell you to vaccinate your children so that they do not die of easily preventable diseases

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Pet Sounds is the best rock album ever recorded by an American band, RIP legend

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Oh look, the most obvious theater ever was theater, and now the National Guard is in the streets

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maybe AGI can make the metaverse interesting

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We are not 5 years away from colonizing the galaxy! However, we are very close to having AI that can flawlessly replicate tech CEO bullshit, freeing all of society's resources that are currently being channeled towards extremely expensive human-powered word salad

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always struck by how everyone who screams “we’re full” citing the strain on services is also viciously opposed to the safety net

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Do it. And let the English see you do it.

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The city of LA is more representative of America than 25 states are. LA *is* real America.

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How Europeans react when you try to speak their language.

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