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@extrarawpotato @NiftuA @bdquinn Historians show how things happened, political scientists make models for why things happened. But that doesn’t mean they can consistently predict what will happen.

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@NiftuA @bdquinn Political scientists can't predict anything either.

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@moshik_temkin Meanwhile the Nazi state was an extremely inefficient and ramshackle entity that relied on its leaders' extreme tolerance for complexity to survive.

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@souljagoyteller This creates a country that coasts off of free trade and factor endowments but chronically misallocates human capital.

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@souljagoyteller Basically, Argentina's biggest sins are 1) it never learned how to build a developmental state, 2) it never had a substantial class of small farmers and 3) it never invested any notable amount in the hard sciences.

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@souljagoyteller I usually find these comparisons ridiculous because Argentina's trajectory was much stranger than "Peron ruined everything."

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@nikicaga Interesting unofficial American flag variant with the staggered 8 x 6 star grid.

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@Szabadsag1956 I don't think most people wanted the USSR to either stay or go, they were more or less indifferent. A society untrained in democratic norms, regardless of how rich or poor it is can't decide for itself. So, the elites did. That is probably the worst indictment of the USSR.

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@Pancakeoid In front of every revolution, there is also a Pole.

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@nikicaga From a career perspective, it's not a career. There's no job market, pay is almost always going to be bad. It's for a very specific type of person who lives like an academic whether they have a fancy title and a salary or not. If that isn't you then it's usually a bad idea.

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@nikicaga Don't get me wrong, academia is fucked but the trick is to have rock bottom expectations. The people who feel burned often can't separate their own self-esteem from academia and proceed to self-destruct when it is obviously not what they thought.

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@voithontas Never has a single image made me feel more validated than this one.

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@PupsRoom In college, I knew very few women who weren't in a sorority. But this was at a school where Greek life had to be serious about academics (or at least pretend to be).

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@yi08q5 @jeremyjames234 @tylerdeanv You're arguing that being feminine is an innate trait, which is nonsense. Women existed long before femininity. The way you describe it makes it seem like women are a byproduct of femininity.

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@Donut_KnightPL The guy on the top right is exactly how Hungarians viewed Slovaks.

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@kerdslaayer @ConsulofRome_ I don't really agree. The Galician and Balkan fronts were a debacle due to Hotzendorf's constant meddling, but the Austrians were generally competent in Italy on their own. Luigi Cardona was probably Hotzendorf's equal in operational incompetence if not worse.

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@The_Davos_Man I wonder how Hungarians and Austrians felt about the son of a Habsburg emperor's involvement in this. Would it have been emotional for some elderly folks?

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@turan_explorer Wrong! Fiume is still Hungarian!

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@JacobAShell There was a very powerful country that wanted to destroy a massive series of wetlands to resettle its population on. What was the country? Nazi Germany.
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