Political thoughts of a political science & economics major. made as an alt acct on 07/26/2020 because I didn’t want to flood my followers with political takes.
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Lost in the Ukraine discourse is the fact that Putin doesn’t want elections.
He knows Trump hates him, which helps Russia. Why would he want Zelenskyy to be replaced by a figure Trump could get along with better? That would make it easier for Ukraine to ask for more aid.
And last, any election would need weeks of ceasefire to take place. There haven’t been any formal nominations, candidacies, or campaigns.
No polling stations are set up, no registration, nothing is ready. And if bombs kept voters from going to the polls or God forbid fell on…
When you hear one say “war crime” you may think they mean, “violating the well defined international rules of armed conflict” but you’d be wrong. 99/100 times, “war crime” means, “a thing I personally dislike, even if it is explicitly allowed under the literal laws of warfare.”
The death penalty regularly goes from being a solemn and authoritative final act of closure for the victims into a freakshow humiliation ritual for the state. This fiasco always comes at the expense of the taxpayer and decades too late.
Abolish it already. It’s pathetic.
Brazilians thinking we would ever care enough to invade Brazil are displaying embarrassing levels of main character syndrome.
TikTok needed to be banned so long ago. It’s actually making people into retarded medieval peasants, only now with voting rights.
Dissolving the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd, and the Northern Ireland Assembly and ending the failed experiment of devolution in the United Kingdom altogether should be considered the moderate position at this point.
On Monday, the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff to sign a cooperation agreement calling for the right to hold independence referendums.
The SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin leaders will discuss cooperation on the economy, energy, Europe and self-determination.
John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP, said the UK’s current system is “not sustainable.”
Source: The Telegraph
The most undeniably impressive thing about Trump is how his presence on a given issue seems to warp reality. A year ago had you asked self-identified libertarians about a private company freely developing on their land, it’d be their cornerstone idea. Now they rally against it.
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On one hand, data centers use insignificant amount of water. On the other hand, they cure cancer. So who’s to say if they’re good or bad.
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The people have spoken. They want price controls. This is a vote of no confidence against market fundamentalism.
For a deep dive into the politics of prices stay tuned for Anti-fascist Economics out 10/20.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Benito Mussolini, the founder of fascism, imposed sweeping price controls on the Italian economy in an attempt "maintain the purchasing power of those least able to buy, to protect the lira and to gain, if possible, an advantage in foreign trade by price manipulation."
jstor.org/stable/2143531
Okay, I was certain that the Nancy Mace tattoo sleeve thing was a joke. What do you mean it’s real?!
GDP maximization has done more to advance the green technological innovations needed to benefit the environment than anything else ever.
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An enormous part of the $20 burrito discourse that is being ignored is that the fast food companies are responding to the market.
Restaurants see that people are still willing to buy the $20 burrito even if they complain while doing it.
We should make Puerto Rico a state because the idea of shrinking America is unacceptable to me. Our goal should be to have at least 60 states, ideally closer to 70, by the time our nation’s 300th birthday rolls around.
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US has imposed a heavy 10 percent tariff on Russia of all imports in an unexpected move.
