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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · 6d

I feel the creators can make it work relatively well if they just say “hey this is like a worst case scenario of what happened. The reapers were defeated but Shepard fucked up so bad that this is the hell-world their fuckups created” and explore a chaotic, post-conflict galaxy

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · 10d

We should bring this back for barely remembered Civil War generals. Where is the loving epic about Winfield Scott Hancock. Or George Thomas. I’d even accept one about Benjamin Butler.

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · 12d

There have been at least 2 successful street-led revolutions in the past year in which one piece iconography was a regular part of the protests. And protestors have used it in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Morocco (just off the top of my head) in the past year. Glad to see it’s here now too lol

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Sep 17

The hyperinflation occurred due to the Ruhr crisis of 1923 and had low impact on the Nazi rise to power. By the time of the Great Depression (which truly caused the rise of the Nazis) Germany had had 5 years of solid growth and recovery. In 1928 the Nazis were marginal, by 1930 they were not

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Sep 15

I disagree since American doesn’t have the intentionally divided military systems like in your two examples and ice and police services would need to be very different institutions to be able to try to be used as sources of civil conflict with the US military. Sources of Coups though? Yup!

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Sep 15

Even then too, Syria had an Alawite-stacked military which created incentives for both defection to the revolutionaries by non Alawites and the remaining military to cohere together against a united threat. So it too created opportunity for violent dispute resolution through war.

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Sep 15

In Susan’s case as well, you had a divided armed forces which were intentionally set up between the Islamist-dominated national army and regional militias given official backing to fight insurgencies (Darfur; South Sudan). So the minute the two militaries had a falling out, war could break out

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Sep 12

The thirty years war was a battle royale of some of the most talented figures in early modern Europe and some of the most absolute “what were you thinking” mediocrities and incompetents of the era. Just a horrific smorgasbord

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Sep 11

My favorite historical figure from this book was Elector John George of Saxony. He was just totally out of his depth and continually switched sides and was just completely not prepared or equipped for the world-historic crisis that affected his entire adult life.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Sep 11

READ THEORY

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is a realness overload, this has given me such hope

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Aug 20

What were the threads about? I never remember the beef behind that account being very annoying

Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Aug 10

It’s so funny Huntington wrote this whole spiel about the glorious apolitical Prussian officer corps when he famously praised Ayub Khan (Pakistan’s first military dictator) as “the modern Solon”. Almost like he had larger ideological priors!

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Aug 10

This is a piece I’m starting to formulate but its incredibly funny to me that Huntington cites the Prussian officer corps as a model of “apolitical” military professionalism when the officer corps literally boxed in king William into declaring war on France to defend the honor of the army in 1812/13

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Aug 8

They’re talking about Indian gdp growth. 6% would be in line with recent trends for them, even if worsened by the trade war

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Aug 1

But American did have a relatively coherent national party system before the civil war concerning opposition to Jackson and The American System? It’s hard to underplay the role of slavery the battles of the 1820s and 30s, but there was a national party system by 1836 by the Whigs vs Democrats.

Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Jun 12

Ed Davey next election

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Jun 12

More Dems need to follow the Indian theory of politics: actionable death threats

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · Jun 4

The French have low unionization rates though! About as much as america does lol. Which makes his argument even dumber since if that’s the commonality between us, then it does suggest it’s not about labor unions!

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 27

Bruh just trust me the Manchu should still be ruling China as a minoritarian regime unable to reform itself. Bruh just trust me they were totally gonna do a constitution before they were overthrown. We just need one more puppet child emepror to achieve modernization

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 27

The absolute funniest thing is the phrase “could have just stuck with the Qing”. Sir what the fuck do you mean it was a completely desiccated ruling order. I guess if he’s only read Jung Chang’s terrible bio of Cixi his blatant ignorance is understandable lol

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 13

So I always think of ideology (or charismatic authority) as the glue that holds these competing interests together and not like a panacea to make these interests form together in of themselves.
So sorry for the rant lol

Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 13

Like politics is not purely ideological! Interest group literature shows that, imo, ideology is pretty secondary and prone to social circumstance! And so it’s annoying when many folks on the dem side go “we need to get more rightwing/leftwing to win” when these fissures aren’t neatly ideological.

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 13

And there are benefits to like boring programmatic politics! But clientelist networks make sense for voters, and voters are very good at parsing these networks in ways just as sophisticated as programmatic politics treats the ideal, informed, discerning middle class voter.

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 13

I feel this so strongly. like after an entire graduate degree in comparative politics focused on democracy in the global south, we expect parties to act in a very narrow western-centric way and demean any other way they function if they are clientelistic or non-programmatic.

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 11

Do you have any books to recommend on this? I’ve been trying to find good books on the affair and the third repiblic in general but it’s hard lol

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Kalaignar Enjoyer @hotzendork.bsky.social · May 7

Democrats don’t know how worse it could be. Like “bad at winning elections” is so, so much better than “failson runs party into the ground as it drifts into irrelevance as he is unable to pick winning issues or promote talent”. Dems have never had it as bad as the 2019-2022 INC.

Double Good Think @onedayinjune.bsky.social · May 7

One redeeming thing about the US situation though is that the Dems, as bad as they can be are nowhere near as feckless, incompetent and opportunistic as the INC.

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