PhD candidate. Comparative Politics, IR. Nationalism and ethnicity. Democracy Understander. Really into political violence (studying, not doing)
May 31, 2023 β’ 4 tweets β’ 2 min read
Look at my psychiatrist, dawg π
I don't believe a word of the bio, FWIW. He went by his real name on his banned account, per Wayback Machine, and there's no psych by that name in the Miami area lmao
May 31, 2023 β’ 4 tweets β’ 1 min read
Is it just me, or does assuming that direct auto sales = "running auto service like Comcast" betray a complete and utter lack of imagination?
I'm just wondering how you even get from Point A to Point B. Will Toyota make independent auto repair shops illegal, in Matt Stoller's fever dreams?
May 23, 2023 β’ 4 tweets β’ 1 min read
This place would rock so much harder if we had steppe hordes out here
The governors of New Mexico and Oklahoma paying annual tribute to keep them from invading
The Emperor of Austin deftly playing the Amarillo, Lubbock, and Midland hordes off of each other
May 22, 2023 β’ 5 tweets β’ 1 min read
Jesus the Prequel writing was dogshit
Like the broad outlines are fine, but George Lucas really needed to know when to farm out the particulars to a professional
Feb 19, 2023 β’ 8 tweets β’ 2 min read
The far-right outrage about supporting Ukraine is because this war is a "hard test" of their ideology
In their political cosmology, the West is supposed to fail, because they've reached some "decadent" stage of history and are therefore supposed to fall to "hard men"
They're throwing a temper tantrum because if Russia - a country of supposedly authentic people living traditionally, "uncorrupted" by the values of liberalism and pluralism - actually loses, then their entire worldview is called into question