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1 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Finally watching #recipeforseduction , in between Rogue One and New Hope...
I hope someday to leave my children nothing but a name and a legacy of debt. #recipeforseduction
Point being she should have married Billy. Obviously. #recipeforseduction
OMG this movie has a gay black best friend! #recipeforseduction
2020 is the year of media set in Kentucky featuring no one with an even faintly Kentucky accent. #recipeforseduction
OMG this is a movie about intellectual property protection and trade secret theft #recipeforseduction

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2 Jan
Lotta GOPsters hoped that they could keep their heads down and get through the transition, apparently forgetting that outbidding is a thing.
And hey, I can appreciate the true level of anger that they have against Hawley and Cruz. It's one thing to get outbid by a genuine idiot like Gohmert; comes with the territory when you've decided to represent the kind of people who make up the GOP primary electorate.
Hawley and Cruz aren't dumb, they're just utterly unprincipled and are outbidding in an effort to control the future of the party. Turning a crisis into an opportunity, so to speak.
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1 Jan
Why doesn’t C3PO speak Jawa? #newhope
"You can trust him. He's our new master!" #c3poisaracetraitor #newhope
Discuss: C3PO is the Jar Jar Binks of the original trilogy. #newhope
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12 Jul 20
This needs to be emphasized more, because it’s not accidental. It’s the result of ideological hostility to governance that produces decision-makers who are inept at best, and view politics as a mechanism for distributing spoils at worst. Often both.
Before March I was onboard the “worse human than Bush, but not thus far a worse President” train, because Trump had been lucky enough to avoid any serious external crises. That ended in March, with predictable effect.
And while generally I’m happy that we’ve shifted to the idea that invading Iraq was a Bad Idea, and not simply Bad Execution, it’s worth remembering that it was in fact a Bad Idea that was Very Badly Executed in large part because of the way the GOP approaches governance.
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15 May 20
This column is frustrating. washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
There are a few big claims that I can't exactly disagree with:

1) Wargames have shown China has a path to victory
2) Bureaucratic politics matter in US defense
3) Major US platforms have vulnerabilities that China can take advantage of
But all of those deserve extremely big caveats. Regarding the first, I know of first-hand and have heard of second-hand numerous wargames where the US military cleans the PLA's clock, so to speak.
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26 Feb 19
The electoral college is not doing what it was designed to do, because it wasn't "designed" in any meaningful sense of the term. The extant electoral college is a kludge of different elements that existed for different purposes in the early republic.
For my part, I honestly don't give a fuck if the EC favors either rural or urban voters; I prefer a majoritarian Presidential election in any case. But even if your purpose is to maximize the impact of rural voters, the EC is a *horrible* way to go about it.
In service of maximizing the influence of the good people of Wyoming, the EC effectively "disenfranchised" (if we're going to bother using that term) *many* Wyoming-sized chunks of the GOP electorate in California.
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3 Dec 18
Alright, so last week I promised to run a thread of all of the @UK_Patterson Security and Intelligence comps questions that I've asked since arriving here in 2005.
Turns out that was a lie; I only have the list since 2007. But nevertheless, let's proceed. These questions are kind of a running history of US national security policy since 2007, mediated by my own personal obsessions and intellectual tics.
It's important to understand that the question is only a prompt for the student to tell me what s/he knows. Students can answer in whatever way they feel appropriate, and are evaluated (in oral defense) on the strength of that answer.
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