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Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto. book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG
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John Fetterman’s a disgrace to the oaf community. He does not represent America’s lumbering buffoons, ham-fisted galoots, or men whose heavy footsteps are soundtracked by a tuba.

Here’s what you get if you google this

- becomes leader of a declining superpower - promises major changes - promotes ideological dissolution - reforms make the economy worse - hobbled by his own party’s corruption - supposed allies start to leave the empire - be donald trump - pic unrelated

Yascha Mounk, whining that Trump was persecuted and his opponents went too far, sounds like a Nasserist. Every autocratizing regime has those who subtly and self-protectively adapt to the new hierarchies of power, and sing its tune. Interesting to see it happen so quickly in the US.

damn you Gerardus Mercator!

romanian handyman I've known for two years came by yesterday I said hey, how are you, he says "you do not need to say this"

the big difference is that the US was founded by psychos and Canada was founded by fleeing cowards. that's why no one speaks up and five families control everything

the proper realist take is that canada is in america's legitimate sphere of influence and people who object to annexation are being naive. where is mearsheimer on this

elite overproduction is so bad that ivy leaguers are now taking traditional working-class jobs like assassin

the paradox of this is that this is - assuming it doesn't go haywire and hallucinate shit - a very useful tool for everyday Chinese bureaucratic life, which involves churning out huge amounts of meaningless content written to party orthodoxies.

two healthcare professionals taken down in one week, yet everyone is celebrating

days like this make me think damn, if only prigozhin had a few more miles left in him

This is absolutely the logical endpoint of Mearsheimer’s career.

letting the state media report on your coup while you commit your coup. classic coup error

(Biden after reading 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine'): I have to pardon my son

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

rfk jr to finally take revenge on the nation that killed his father and uncle

by ensuring the decline of US hegemony the american voting public has proven itself as the greatest anti-imperial force in the world

An antivax secdef is crazy. Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of human civilization than disease.

russian mass media seems much more skeptical about what trump could deliver for them this time -- if you watch please tell me you disagree but I feel a cynicism absent in 2016

kudos to shiping tang on this one, not an easy call for anyone let alone an IR theorist

I wish no harm to the american ruling class my enemy is the american people

much less talk of moving to canada this time. glad to see people have realized it sucks up there too

I think that Trump’s status as an instant lame duck will be the defining characteristic of his second administration. the likely consequences of that are mostly bad: he has no particular ideological legacy he wants to leave, so it’s just going to be court intrigue and cash bribes all the time

crazy thing is i'm encouraging europeans to become the vile warmongers they once were, as the optimistic outcome

europe really thought they had settled into being a kind of museum and now they have to take the old armor off the shelf again

on the plus side political scientists have an official end date for american unipolarity

well it's going to be tough for all the media types to sanewash this nazi rally. now to take a big sip of water and load up usa today dot com

someone called bezos a quisling but Quisling at least waited for the nazis to show up before giving in

I stand with my comrades at the Washington Post in their rejection of the fascist corporate duopoly

guys I've seen the video and it's a bombshell that will end the campaign. Trump actually confuses structural realism for neoclassical realism

Carlson: what caused the war and why was it NATO? Putin: In 862 the people of Novgorod invited a Varangian prince…. C: and what about NATO? please say Nato P: Let us recall Yaroslav the Wise, who once had a dream about a Ukrainian witch….