Paul Goode

The science says that White House is unlikely to benefit from a rally-around-the-flag effect, nor is this likely to work as a diversionary war. And, as we all know, the Trump administration is all about the science.

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No immediate threat to national security.
No congressional authorization.
No constitution.

The Trump administration has become the greatest force for the spread of nuclear weapons. Near threshold adversaries now must get them to prevent an attack a la North Korea.
America's "allies" need them since the nuclear umbrella is now in tatters.l

A process begun already in 2014 with the state takeover of the Perm-36 gulag museum and its conversion into a museum honoring the prison guards.

I interviewed the original directors of Perm-36 as well as the advisor for its replacement and wrote about it here:

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Happening tomorrow! Still time to register.

Well that was fun. Bluesky is pretty much X now with a coat of paint.

Here we go. Pro-fascism accusations incoming.

Nope. It was absolutely infuriating.

As far as I recall, the GOP blocked prosecution for impeachment and there were at least four different suits against Trump for a variety of charges in New York and Georgia.

This you?

The felon is in office and pardoned all the J6ers. How's that working out?

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Fair point. Usually that requires a lot of people in law enforcement and civil service at every level. So maybe start with undoing purges and repairing institutions.

Catchy! Ok, then what about all the titushki recently employed by ICE? Do they get turned loose in society and wait for prosecution?

And who will do that, the Justice Department? it will take years just to undo the damage done to federal institutions from within.

well, "today in fuckery," one might focus on actually having a plan to govern, for starters.

touche

Having an actual platform would be a start. Heck, call it Project 2028 for kicks. "Throw the previous regime in jail" is not a platform and it certainly didn't work out under the previous administration.

reductio ad hitlerum wins all arguments, of course

lol not a worldview. It's social science. Decades of social science on regime transitions and transitional justice.

unless I'm mistaken, Brazil and South Korea were where the US was after J6: the coup failed in both cases and was the basis for prosecution, not the basis for campaigning. We are already past that point.

This is the internet. Can't stop people from making whatever out of what you say.

no

It's not personal, it's comparative politics.

Nobody said do nothing.

As a citizen, I’m all for this.

As a comparativist, name one time that telling authoritarian incumbents you’ll throw them in prison has worked out. If you thought J6 was bad…

PC component pricing is bonkers. We had a brief respite after covid, but time to dig in again.

The truth is that no AI company wants you to run a local AI, most consumers and enterprise will keep paying for subs, and the niche group of AI developers need hardware with gobs of memory not useless NPUs. There is no actual market for "AI PCs."

An appropriate way to start the new year!

Teaching graduate-level "Russian Domestic Politics" for the first time since... (checks notes) 2019?! Yikes.

Time to start a new syllabus from scratch. Topics and readings attached for the morbidly curious.