Jelena Subotic
jelenasubotic.bsky.social
Jelena Subotic
@jelenasubotic.bsky.social

I write books and academic things. OG AI hater.
https://jsubotic.com
I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at# .. more

Jelena Subotić is a political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is known for her research on memory politics, human rights, and transitional justice. She has expertise in the politics of the Western Balkans. Her 2019 book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism won the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies and the best book award of the year by the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association. .. more

Political science 46%
Sociology 18%
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Slow walking into a nuclear war was always going to be because of toxic male insecurities. It's just really, really unpleasant to be living through it.
"Pope you need to do better"
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I keep telling all distraught Americans that Europe will not save us and yet

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European leaders appear torn in face of new world order after Venezuela attack
European leaders appear torn in face of new world order after Venezuela attack
Leaders try to focus on what comes next, as backing for ejection of Maduro mingles uncomfortably with voicing of support for international law
www.theguardian.com
So when can you start

This is the correct take
Mentally Ill Elderly Man Forced Out of Bed to Commit War Crimes

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Mentally Ill Elderly Man Forced Out of Bed to Commit War Crimes
A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

My husband and I have been arguing all morning as I believe this thing was "big boy likes fireworks on TV" and he believes he bombed a bunch of Marriotts and Hiltons so he can build Trump Caracas and both could be true and I am losing it.

I have no faith I just have no fucks to give any more
I think the key to this version of US imperialism is the interaction of 1 and 2 here
i think that people really underestimate reality that

1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man

2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually

3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval.

If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Why has US attacked Caracas and captured Venezuela’s president?
Why has US attacked Caracas and captured Venezuela’s president?
Trump’s unprecedented capture of Nicolás Maduro follows months of military campaign and years of strained relationship
www.theguardian.com

yes clearly this is all because Venezuela wanted to join NATO

that is a fate worse than death so no

solidarity to my fellow IR scholars who have to talk to normal people today

I can't string two sentences together to even comprehend let alone explain this to anyone
The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

pretty sure applies to London also, no?
Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?