SJ

International Development, Capital Markets, Political Economy, Corp Governance & Arsenal FC. RTs =/= Endorsements

[SJ @SJean007]

@dilanesper This seems largely right. Some of it reflects extreme tribalism & low standards (not so different from the U.S.). Security-minded supporters often assume all decision-making must be correct if it’s coming from one certain PM when it repeatedly turns out to not be the case.

[SJ @SJean007]

@dhaaruni @AGlavkoverkh I don’t think moderates can do this since they’re more attuned to the policy consequences of GOP wins than the left, who tends to care less about Congress and votes, and the image of Dems and how cuts to programs affect at-risk and minority groups.

[SJ @SJean007]

@cancelkultur @arash_tehran My suspicion is that you likely lack knowledge & curiosity about the different legal systems & practices of nearby & similarly situated states since the 20th century. And note, the OPT as a system is horrifically bad but that wasn’t the topic at hand. Good luck as you learn more

[SJ @SJean007]

@cancelkultur @arash_tehran I’m saying it can be improved. He’d likely agree. Many states have an ethnic center yet are democratic. Greece has special immigration laws for Pontic Greeks around the world that it doesn’t have for expelled families of Muslim/Turkic citizens from the early 20th century.

[SJ @SJean007]

@JHWeissmann Possible but unlikely. The left is too superficial & arrogant to examine voter patterns like this & how they link to policy prefs/politics. To this day, they cannot process why black voters liked detailed universal healthcare ideas from the Clintons & Obama but not screams of M4A

[SJ @SJean007]

@cancelkultur @arash_tehran You know it’s normal for states to lean into one ethnic group, right? Armenia, Turkey, Greece all write it into law. Azerbaijan doesn’t even bother, they just pretend Armenians don’t exist. Israel’s treatment of minorities should be improved, but it’s not alone in that need.

[SJ @SJean007]

@MahnazShirali مردها کنار مسعود، طالبان نیستند؛ اعضای جبهه مقاومت ملی افغانستان‌اند. مسعود و سازمانش پول زیادی ندارند، بنابراین باید با ج.ا کار کنند تا وقتی که دیگر لازم نباشد.

[SJ @SJean007]

@adastroworld It’s not merely a matter of pushing and advocating. It’s a fiscal capacity issue. You have to raise the money from the state or get Dems to have control of both the house & Senate (probably the WH too) to allocate funding that contribute to this & along with municipal bond sales

[SJ @SJean007]

@adastroworld There is no public developer capable of making the difference because the money doesn’t exist at the city, state, or federal level. Vienna can get funding from Austria’s national government in a way that’s simply not possible for NYC through the federal government.

[SJ @SJean007]

@websterkaroon Iranic victory right here. Afghan assist with a Kurdish Yazidi goal executor. Team Melli your move…

[GunnerMZ7 @GunnerMZ7]

⚽️Deniz Undav (Germany 1 - 1 Ivory Coast)
🅰️assist by Nadiem Amiri

[SJ @SJean007]

@funtimehaver13 @hecubian_devil School teachers? These are cops that would beat women in the streets, pull them into vans and even kill them for a slippage of hair under hijabs.

[SJ @SJean007]

@BenPanam @ayatr0llah It’s implausible to say it’s very similar since no country in the world has a corruption structure where military extraction, clerical/bonyiad opacity, and a self-sufficiency ideology function as a single integrated system, each part shielding the others from accountability.

[SJ @SJean007]

@BarredinDC It’s the Knicks. Wins from the distant yet seemingly near past. Big city team with both an elite and working-class fan base that is long-suffering and devoted. Also, a lot of international fans too.

[SJ @SJean007]

@rostam_pechorin The exact future political situation matters a lot for this. But I wouldn’t discount Iranians due to imperfect values. Compared to Turkey/Mexico/Gulf countries, it has higher proportion of engineers in its diaspora/internally & high success rates across secular/religious & ethnic

[SJ @SJean007]

@SirMichaelRocks NYC politics bores most folks including
other politicians & no one cares when good policy comes from a person they don’t like. Since 1975 every mayor has had to balance the budget by law. Eric Adams added a lot more money for behavioral health & early child care yet no one cared

[SJ @SJean007]

@indiemusicfan4 @iaindunning @3stddev You do realize the report has modeling on waste generation inNYC at the block level & projections on volume of waste produced? Even with AI, for a city as complex as NYC, that’s a lot of data to parse through which requires significant man power. Don’t think NYC could do it alone

[SJ @SJean007]

@janecastles @arash_tehran Yes, Akhond Khorasani was probably the best & years ahead of time (early 20th ct). He believed in clerics as advisors, constitutional democracy & monarchy in an Islamic framework, & equality for citizens. He was all a leading scholar & a total contrast from Khamenei/Khomeini.

[SJ @SJean007]

@SasanianShah عجیب است که ایده‌ها و استدلال‌های دوران م��روطه، در مقایسه با ایده‌های امروز، بهتر به همین مشکلات فعلی می‌پرداختند. آن دوره هم احساسات شدید و شرایط خاص خودش را داشت، اما امروز کمتر کسی مثل خراسانی، حسن پیرنیا یا دهخدا و آن سطح بحث و تحلیل دیده می‌شود.

[SJ @SJean007]

@ThatchEffendi Italy & Turkey seem very off since modern Italy’s path relies on crushing the Papal States & Italian reunification vs Turkey’s Islamic/Turkic past shaping its politics today. Ancient history-driven nationalisms like enosis & Megali Idea might give it a Greece, Armenia/Iran feel.

[Ali Ansari @aa51_ansari]

A prayer for Historians:

Dear Lord, protect us from the Models of political scientists and the Theories of International relations experts. May we always understand the contingent and irrational in political action.