To the extent Tooze is right about the 21st century necessarily being narrated from a Chinese perspective, the decline of American research is not like hard to understand. Of course this wasn't built to last

Or "someone misunderstood what was going on in the original source"

My brother pointed out that in Season 2 the real villain is incompetence, and in Season 4 it's Herc's incompetence specifically

Tooze's books are i think rich enough that I'm happy considering his work as an Œuvre, you know? Study it as something that's better than what I could do and inexhaustible like Foucault or Herodotus, no need to know much about the guy who did it

What did he do now

you cannot win over the New York Democratic Party, you have to beat them

there is no downside here, Chi's outstanding and will fight cleanly, Jeffries already hates the left, maybe he'll learn to fear us a little

To put it another way, *capital* is perfectly capable of organizing decarbonization. The problem is *capital-owners*, who are political actors and not just the embodiments of the accumulation process. Elon Musk is symptomatic here.

crowns are fucking littering the gutter, pick one