jmcardenas.bsky.social
assistant professor of renaissance / early modern literature, uAlberta.
17th-century poetry, knowledge, self representation.
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I heard this too! I scanned it for a class I was teaching last year; there are indeed some irregular lines but when I scanned it, there was only 1 that seemed to need more than 5 feet. The rest were hendecasyllables and regular substitutions.
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That explains the logical catapult from “there are problems” to “it must be the result of liberal policies and the only solution are conservative policies”.
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Interesting. I imagine you’d need just one demographic to be open to Carney but cold on the LPC: young men? Surprising to me, but a few conservative friends of mine seem to like him but not the Liberals. Suggests folks do see him as a departure from recent iteration of LPC.
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It’s a bit of a catch 22, I suppose. If enough people close to the election think a LPC majority is in the bag, it may indeed not be in the bag. In some battlegrounds it’s just 3% one way or the other and *all* the races turn, sort of how all 7 US swing states went the same direction AND were tight.
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Bloc at 22% in QC is beyond game over, isn’t it? Liberal wave in QC would mean the tight races in BC simply matter less. And this, in one of the “better” polls for NDP.
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Tis better to have pumped and lost / Than never to have pumped at all
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Cold. Cruel. Soulless.
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This is absurd and unjust. I say you bring her in one of those cat backpacks. And if she should escape and either hug or eat one of the otters, it is on their conscience!
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Ahem. Sorry.
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Canadians: Death it is
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I found myself thinking this but then I didn’t see him miss any opportunities to skate or shoot. Puck not getting on his stick.
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This is right, and I feel like no one generally wants to say that voters make mistakes and that they are responsible for electing leaders who do them harm. Not each individual voter, of course, but the electorate. And I guess market forces dictates that CNN / Dems can’t say, “you messed up!”
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Astonishing to see tens of millions of people crave a king - and such a wretched one at that.
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One gets called woke for acknowledging that many people simply don’t care about women or racial minorities, and that that indifference (or outright hate) has real-world consequences. But in a society that wasn’t sexist or racist, such a man could not be appointed without enormous political cost.
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Right. The difference here though is that between “trade deficits are subsidies! We’re being ripped off!” and “we need, in whole, to balance our own need to make/produce things and to take advantage of more efficient production elsewhere!”
Only the former might prompt you to impose insane tariffs.
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Plus, the US is a very populous and wealthy country. Why would they expect, e.g., that a country with 1/9th their population would buy from the US as much as they buy from Canada? Y’all have the population and money to afford it! It’s just such a deep misunderstanding of how trade works.
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There is nothing inherently predatory about trade imbalances. If two countries have no trade, there is no imbalance. If one exports 100B and the exports 90B to each other, there is a 10B deficit for one. But they still exported 90B of goods out that they otherwise wouldn’t!
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Sid doesn’t ever backhand pucks. He violently flings the world, and the net, at the puck.
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What is this rhetorical framing? It’s a “jab” now to Trump to say Greenland can’t simply be conquered at a whim? Such an act makes her a “thorn in his side”? Ridiculous.
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Trump has some extraordinarily extreme (in truth, repugnant and moronic) positions. He won because Americans share his positions? Would be both demoralizing and encouraging: first, how awful! but great, people are responsive to policies! But I think partisanship & (mis)information account for more.
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A good-faith question: what do you make of the information/misinformation question? Or the messaging gap? If winning elections is primarily about having the more popular policies and positions on the whole, are you suggesting that Americans on the whole want the policies that the GOP and Trump sell?
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What’s my cat doing there?
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Yes, that’s fair. Hard to imagine a drastic change of direction from him.
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Are you referring to this quote?
“Our growth has been too slow. People’s wages are too low. Necessities like groceries and rent are too expensive for too many. The federal government spends too much, but it invests too little. Middle-class taxes are too high.” I can’t find him saying “lower taxes.”
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(Please don’t mistake my question as support for a candidate; I’m genuinely in understanding your reasoning as a person of principle.)
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I’m curious. Do you think him malicious, misguided, or simply incompetent? If neither three, then why would senior financial experience and a Rhodes scholarship (not buying one’s way to Oxford) be marks against a candidate?
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You’re right to be frustrated. Beyond the heinous Supreme Court decision, I’m talking about the longstanding DOJ “rule” about not prosecuting a sitting president, which has been around for decades. According to this article, it may have an even longer history:
www.law.virginia.edu/news/202301/...
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Right, but I’m not asking why Americans don’t mind voting for a criminal. I’m asking why American justice institutions have decided the law doesn’t apply to elected lawbreakers. It’s utterly backwards; lawmakers are the last people who should break the law and the first to be prosecuted.
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Are there other modern democracies in which being elected functionally grants you legal immunity? I don’t understand why America, reputed land of the free, haters of tyrants, carve out a safe space for popular criminals. In Europe and Asia (as we’ve just seen in Korea) this would not fly.
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Pretty remarkable how cherry-picked the quotes in the first article were. I try to give journalists the benefit of the doubt, but man oh man, if a student submitted something that distorted to me I’d probably fail them.
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A very kind invitation! It would depend on the timeline as you conceive of the series; shall we get in touch after the holidays?
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There's a good discussion of this in Barbara Lewalski's biography, p. 407–409 in the revised 2003 version. The Romantic-era portraits of M dictating to his daughters are fanciful. Students and friends were his writers, but he was sometimes desperate for good amanuenses, esp. when writing in Latin.
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Thank you, Prof. Prior. It's probably not the case that M dictated most frequently to his daughters; if he started composing PL (as most think) in 1658, Anne (who was disabled) would have been 12, Mary 10, and Deborah (for whom we have the best evidence as amanuensis) only 6. They did read to him.
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You’re doing great public work here, Karen. And as thrilling as I find Areopagitica, I’m sure readers will revel in PL under your guidance! Btw, Leonard’s Penguin edition is the first I used in undergrad, and it is so beaten up as to challenge M’s claim that books are not absolutely dead things!!
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Autopilot analysis. Find the first, easiest story you can tell yourself to justify what you already believe — and tada!
It applies to political thought too, and here we are! :)
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I see two videos on their Youtube page exactly on this? In the middle video, Chris Hayes dedicates an 8-minute segment in primetime on the atrocities in Gaza and reports on the limited response in the US government.