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Wednesday fan, political scientist, socialdemocrat, golfer, cyclist, tee near total Real Ale Twat. Spreadsheets+analysis on football in general and esp. #swfc Write at http://substack.com/@ploehmann Also on Mastodon at http://mastodonapp.uk/invite/ojufs

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Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)

submitted 8 days ago • 125 comments

Paul Krugman nailing it: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/political-... 'But I hope the rest of us have learned a lesson from the oligarchy’s support for Trump, even if it’s now cracking: Extreme wealth inequality has given great power to people who exert a malign influence on our politics.' Amen!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is an excellent data-driven thread that, in my mind at least, gives some glimmer of democratic hope for the US: The murmurs of discontent are growing large.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Striking parallel between Trump and Liz Truss in terms of the power of economics/markets to turn even one’s own partisans against you. Trump isn’t losing any support over his performative cruelty towards immigrants, but is rapidly losing Republicans over economic policy, stock market, inflation etc

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

it's not just that he doesn't care about the troops he is viscerally disgusted and discomfited by reminders of suffering and mortality and he will do anything to escape them he lacks the most basic foundations of any kind of fellow feeling and recognition of shared humanity

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting albeit scary: If you work with words the robots may be here for you already:

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly cannot express how awesome it is that the DoD was putting out these statements at the literal exact same time that the Secretary of Defense was negligently transmitting classified information on an unsecure platform to a journalist. It's just utterly amazing. What a time to be alive.

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

#swfc' s loss at home in the derby means we've still won just 5 home matches, 26% of the 19 played. That's the FOURTH worst home win percentage in our history in what is the 122nd league season. Our win percentage away is 47%. It's the most the away rate has topped the home rate in our history.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

#swfc (another) update: That's now FIVE wins away from home after conceding first which is: - more than any team had all of last season - with four away games remaining we've already equalled the most such wins in a full season since 2019 (stats from soccerstats.com)

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments