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a rhetorical device of lexical repetition
- Reposted by ploke3. Aperçu: a comment or brief reference that makes an illuminating point. Read in Patrick Farrel's NYT piece on Joan Didion's Thanksgivings.
- Reposted by ploke"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
- Reposted by ploke“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
- Reposted by plokeYou occasionally see a variant of this in econ discourse where people fret that issuing long-duration bonds will increase borrowing costs when they massively decrease it because investors recognize the rate convexity is very valuable (see, eg, Austria's sovereign curve with the century bond)
- Reposted by plokeone of the things that comes up in matranga's "the ant and the grasshopper" is that, going by skeletal evidence, the average pre-agriculture human experienced ~11 episodes of severe starvation *before adulthood*. agriculture brings this down to ~4 www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...
- Reposted by plokeFifteen years ago Kyrgyzstan was famous for having both an American and a Russian military facility. Syria now? www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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- Reposted by plokeRomani ethnic identification attenuates with educational attainment www.nber.org/system/files...
- Reposted by plokeOn the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
- Reposted by plokeI’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.
- Reposted by plokeamong the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism
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- Reposted by plokeEveryone having social media was supposed to create millions of informed public citizens. Instead it created millions of William Randolph Hearsts, all eager to create their war.
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- Reposted by plokeI take no pleasure in reporting that social scientists' conclusions regarding the effect of immigration on support for the welfare state, based on the exact same data, are affected by their own political beliefs about immigration. Wild experiment by Nate Breznau et al. www.nber.org/papers/w33274
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- Reposted by plokeIrregular verb again. We overwhelm with superior numbers, you perform human wave attacks, they betray their own by ordering suicide charges. (Discussing Viet Nam requires optional verb tenses available as DLC.)
- Today we would call it 'civil society', but in fact said civil society has long rested on a precarious dependence on state funding but tacit autonomy, which has been openly challenged on the merits from time to time...
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- Reposted by plokeHate a MAGA = Maoism comparison but this reminds me so much of the Mao badge craze, which unleashed market forces Mao had sought to tame.
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- Reading R. Mortimer's 1974 exploration of the PKI...
- Mortimer later goes on to carefully weigh the Soviet and Maoist criticisms of 'Aiditism' for being too legalistic and parliamentarian, but doesn't consider at all what his own summary of the 1964 aksi sepihak seems to imply:
- ... that it had made the PKI many enemies without earning it the desired friends by the time of the denouement in 1965. He doesn't even address his own narrative of events at all.
- Reposted by plokeI like how Adam combines my handwaving with Russell Hardin's theories of coordination, making a connection that I didn't (despite being formed by this literature). For my money, the best short version of Russell's argument is his piece in Cook's Limits of Rationality. web.archive.org/web/20150921...
- Reposted by plokeDarkly funny that Tolkien predicted the current moment right down to the Nazi-LARPing "orc cults," wrote a few pages about it, then determined it was depressing and sucked too much to be worth writing about.
- Reposted by plokea dog who can read you the newspaper and get 85% of the headlines right is the most important invention in dog history and the least important invention in newspaper history
- Reposted by plokeProud to have a guest post by the great Michael Kinnucan up on my blog, making the fundamental but underappreciated point that in the US, political parties (as most people imagine them) are illegal. jwmason.org/slackwire/po...
- Reposted by plokeNot to "hand it" to Mao, but the recent arc of US politics does support the notion that people have an inherent fascination with sudden change (and, essentially, accelerationism).
- Reposted by plokeThis is consistent with data from the Indonesian case: here is data on declining inequality and strong economic performance in Indonesia in the run-up to the election of Prabowo Subianto (from a working paper with Bill Liddle and Saiful Mujani). Populist authoritarianism is victorious nevertheless.
- Reposted by plokeFor @financialtimes.com, Sarah Dadouche and Raya Jalabi sit in on meetings between ministry staff in Damascus and their increasingly exasperated new bosses from Tahrir al-Sham. www.ft.com/content/7efc...
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- Reposted by plokeit is incredible the extent to which modern communists are the inheritors of bordiga and not anyone who accomplished literally anything
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- Reposted by plokeMe when I’m disenchanted by the bureaucratization of power under liberal modernity: I would rather kill millions in a war of all vs all than sit through another fucking meeting Me in the Murder Bureaucracy’s third meeting of the day about cost overruns in materiel procurement: wait what the fuck
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- Reposted by plokekalecki was right that capitalism is unstable because bosses hate it when the economy is running at capacity and workers have power but the real blackpill is that the proletariat hates it just as much
- Reposted by plokethe French Revolution was caused by proto-twitter
- Reposted by ploke🚨My Annual Review article "Endogenous State Capacity" is now available online. I am very grateful for the rich conversations with @annagbusse.bsky.social @pberamendi.bsky.social Cathy Boone, David Stasavage, Emily Sellars, Volha Charnysh, Dann Naseemullah, Francesca Jensenius, Mai Hassan & Xiuyu Li.
- Reposted by plokeThe 2024 US Presidential campaign
- Reposted by plokeRereading Fr. Walter Ong’s Orality & Literacy this weekend. Absolutely gripping book
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- Reposted by ploke- I want the most French military officer possible - no, that’s too French
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