Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦

North Pole Ambassador to The USA
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[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

@Sharon_Kuruvila YES PLEASE!!!

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

I know a guy who I would swear fealty to as a feudal lord, but would never vote for as a democratic politician.

[akhivae @akhivae]

Many video games set in post-apocalyptic settings feature ideological "factions". But none seem to ask whether we'd see a revival of tight clan based lineage like we see across parts of the developing world?

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

@FriendlyNetMan John Wilkes Booth: *Standard of living decreases by 5%*

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

I read this tweet in the middle of class and just started laughing.

I still cannot get the image of Abe Lincoln managing the economy "like Stalin on Adderall"

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

I believe the French term for this era is "Trente Glorieuse".

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

The only previous time we dedicated monetary policy dominantly to avoiding recession was the disastrous 1966 - 1981 period.

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

Grant: "I understand Mr. President, I'm off the fight the whole rebel army with 2% of my troops"

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

Abe: "General Grant, I'm sorry I don't have time to speak to you. I needed to expand our coal mimes, to lower the price of steel and increase the profitability of our tooling workshops.... wait, what's this.. ok, now I also need to import sugar"

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

@FriendlyNetMan @PunishedLink I've refered to the game as "Gosplan 1836" for this reason.

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

You complain about "polarization" because you actually think extremists are on both sides

I complain about "polarization" as a dog whistle to complain about GOP extremism.

We are not the same.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

No, no, no. The problem is not “the extremes of political parties” (plural!), it’s not “both sides,” it’s not #polarization.

The key problem is the rise of far-right extremism and the accelerating anti-democratic radicalization of the Republican Party. 1/

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

Victoria3's economy is very unstable because there are no financial speculators.

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

I don't see anything to be gained by pushing people out of my life for political reasons. It doesn't help the cause of democracy in the slightest and it severs connections that temper future escalation.

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

@Notaflyingt0y @the_transit_guy On balance yes and it's almost exactly what you described.

Just think "Victoria 3, but you also need to get the people and goods where they need to go"

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

@EFMememacher https://t.co/46PtvjiIwY

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

The Republican Garuantee is a "non justiciable political question" POTUS could go full Robespierre on WI GOP and SCOTUS couldn't do anything*

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

The Republican Garuantee is a "non justiciable political question" POTUS could go full Robespierre on WI GOP and SCOTUS couldn't do anything*

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

@gillespie_ian @blandphilosophy @jbouie An authoritarian Wario to Singapore's Authoritarian Mario.

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

Me *Says something in law school class*
Prof: "This is an argument made by John Yoo"
Me: *realizes that my professor may think I like Bush Torture Man*
Me (again): *cries profusely*

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

Is it too early for the Denethor option?

[Special Puppy 🧦🐵 @SpecialPuppy1]

For the first time in ~100 days, Republicans are more likely to win control of the senate than Democrats according to 538

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

Now, in a pre-modern society this isn't significant in an "after the kids are gone I still have 70% of my prime left to make money and party or whatever" but the reduced burden of dependants is probably more significant.

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

An under-discussed facet of Tolkien's elves and men with unnaturally long lifespans is how little of their lives need to go into children.

Elves typically have 2 or three children, they grow up and then the elf goes back to their pre-child lifestyle for centuries.

[Greg The Bear🌐 🇺🇦 @BearNamedGreg]

Like, the time spent raising children is a small episode in your life, like your time in college, its not life defining the way it is for normal men.