Constant Fractal
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So the world of unabashedly villainous US foreign policy is a worse world for everyone else. Except for autocrats and corrupt regimes, of course, for them it’s a dream come true.
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So the world of unabashedly villainous US foreign policy is a worse world for everyone else. Except for autocrats and corrupt regimes, of course, for them it’s a dream come true.
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As I like to sum it up (simplistically, but with a point)
--In Engineering all that matters is whether the bolt works, whether it passes the required stress tests, NOT who made it.
-- In Humanities, who said something is the foundational question without which there can be no true knowledge 10/
--In Engineering all that matters is whether the bolt works, whether it passes the required stress tests, NOT who made it.
-- In Humanities, who said something is the foundational question without which there can be no true knowledge 10/
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
As I like to sum it up (simplistically, but with a point)
--In Engineering all that matters is whether the bolt works, whether it passes the required stress tests, NOT who made it.
-- In Humanities, who said something is the foundational question without which there can be no true knowledge 10/
--In Engineering all that matters is whether the bolt works, whether it passes the required stress tests, NOT who made it.
-- In Humanities, who said something is the foundational question without which there can be no true knowledge 10/
Comparative politics is very useful, but it needs to be performed with the required rigour and appreciation of local nuances. It's at its best when used to unsettle, not confirm, what you’ve come to believe based on your own country’s political culture. (7/7)
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Comparative politics is very useful, but it needs to be performed with the required rigour and appreciation of local nuances. It's at its best when used to unsettle, not confirm, what you’ve come to believe based on your own country’s political culture. (7/7)
In conclusion: please be sceptical of pundits who tell tales of some far-off country where the pivot that pundit has always already wanted was tried and found to be the perfect panacea to all political ills.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In conclusion: please be sceptical of pundits who tell tales of some far-off country where the pivot that pundit has always already wanted was tried and found to be the perfect panacea to all political ills.
3) The 2019 elections were just one election. Since then, the Danish populist right has regrouped and the social-democrats are bleeding voters on both sides: losing anti-immigration voters to the populist right while losing pro-human-rights voters to the more principled left.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
3) The 2019 elections were just one election. Since then, the Danish populist right has regrouped and the social-democrats are bleeding voters on both sides: losing anti-immigration voters to the populist right while losing pro-human-rights voters to the more principled left.
This gives the Danish social-democrats a path to win at conservative identity politics that has no equivalent abroad. E.g., the Dutch PVV or the German AFD voters are radicalised against “the left” and (often falsely) blame social-democracy for post-war immigration into their countries.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This gives the Danish social-democrats a path to win at conservative identity politics that has no equivalent abroad. E.g., the Dutch PVV or the German AFD voters are radicalised against “the left” and (often falsely) blame social-democracy for post-war immigration into their countries.
2) It's a locally specific feature of Danish political culture that social democratic values are seen as a national pride. Danish culture explicitly associates the 20th century post-war “golden age” with social democratic policies.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
2) It's a locally specific feature of Danish political culture that social democratic values are seen as a national pride. Danish culture explicitly associates the 20th century post-war “golden age” with social democratic policies.
1) Research shows that in 2019, while the social-democrats won over significant numbers of populist-right voters, they did NOT win on immigration issues. Voters whose biggest issue was immigration stuck with the populist-right. Voters who crossed over reported their biggest issue was social welfare.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
1) Research shows that in 2019, while the social-democrats won over significant numbers of populist-right voters, they did NOT win on immigration issues. Voters whose biggest issue was immigration stuck with the populist-right. Voters who crossed over reported their biggest issue was social welfare.
The argument for the “Danish model” is based on the Danish elections of 2019, when the social-democrats tacked right on immigration and inflicted an electoral trouncing on the populist right. However, there are three issues with turning this election into a model for the centre-left worldwide:
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The argument for the “Danish model” is based on the Danish elections of 2019, when the social-democrats tacked right on immigration and inflicted an electoral trouncing on the populist right. However, there are three issues with turning this election into a model for the centre-left worldwide: