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@themamahagan Not surprising it happened here - this is I-70 just past the Eisenhower tunnel (highest point on the US interstate system), 7% grade for miles. Definitely the craziest downhill I've driven on a highway

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@SecessioPlebiss It is absurd, and it is downstream from thinking of a world that can (or should) only be composed of bureaucratically complex nation-states

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@insanitiser_ua @IAPonomarenko Yeah, the real question is not why did Zelensky refuse to recognize Kosovo (this was already the case and Kosovar support remained) but why he decided to state it so explicitly to the press. Does support from Vučić really matter that much?

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@__Vegapunk__ @TheGreeneBJ @Skellyton6 Also regarding agency, people always portray the US as expanding NATO unilaterally as its personal project, when really it is often states in CEE pushing the US for NATO membership. Polish and Czech membership in the 90s is a good example - Clinton wanted to go slow, they didn’t

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@actsmaniac I think public transportation being cheap is a relatively new development that came with the 9-Euro/Deutschlandticket. I think, otherwise, it has been relatively expensive both regionally and for intercity, but D-ticket has definitely driven down revenue

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@_night_brain__ Unironically think Ohrid is going to become more popular. Probably never huge, but more popular as a vacation spot surely

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@anti_socialform @Benthamsbulldog Yeah, his friend has a wider range of examples, throwing Habermas, Husserl, and Levi-Strauss in. And certainly poststructuralism is a kind of nebulous and oversimplified category in the same way Continental Phil is. I just wasn't sure of a better term

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@anti_socialform @Benthamsbulldog Particularly the list of "key thinkers" being "Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, Lacan, Heidegger" with Heidegger thrown on the end got me lol

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@anti_socialform @Benthamsbulldog These are the main problems in this piece. Interestingly, he doesn't even mention Habermas besides the quote. The examples he engages with are very poststructuralist-heavy, perhaps on purpose. It reads more like he is attempting to critique poststructuralism

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@wolfpacmk @thantmyintu Students in military academies, mostly. And some academic articles. "Crooked Lessons from the Indian Wars; Simons, Anna" is a good example. It is publically avaliable

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@wolfpacmk @thantmyintu The closest I can find to something comprehensive on this is "Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire" by Stefan Aune. I've never read it. Back when I researched it briefly for a paper I mostly ran across theses and dissertations from students

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@GeorgeHategan @mattduss This is correct. He has a section (I believe at the end) where he says that, while he is primarily concerned with critiquing communism, the grass isn't completely green on the other side and the capitalist West promotes conformity and passivity through other means

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@nikicaga Incredible how people refuse to know anything before speaking or engage with any nuance ever

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@cheirinhodepao @Marhelius @dieworkwear I totally agree. I’m from the US, and Cologne is miles ahead of most places there. Compared to other European cities though, it can be a little rough

[Carson @bobmontcee]

@Marhelius @dieworkwear Both of those cities feel very walkable comparatively for sure

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@Alexisization A lot of that history is glossed over, sure, but at minimum there is talk of the Plains Wars and events like Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears. The corn thing (while true) is literally elementary school, this person’s ears turned off at 10 yrs old

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@lefttwick To really comprehend it you have to follow the daily news there. It’s no exaggeration to say that they wipe out a whole town of people nearly every day, and usually do it in the most disgusting and disturbing way possible. It’s really hard to understand a group so evil is real

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@PamirSahill @Rout_PoliticsIR @AcademicChatter Congrats Pamir:) will definitely be getting a copy