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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:07 UTC

Coming soon to the US for soccer games: fences

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:17 UTC

I wonder how much of the GOP freakout at AOC winning a few years ago was plain partisan differences or a fear that finally a new generation who gets how to play politics and not give the game to the GOP was entering the Dem Party.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

I'm getting back-to-school adverts and I don't appreciate it at all.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

JINX

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:51 UTC

Looking forward to Spain demolishing England.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:40 UTC

US city: Here is where a cool dense neighborhood was until they razed it for a 4-lane freeway.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:43 UTC

So England votes out Conservative in favor of Labour and now England plays more open?

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:30 UTC

This is a fun game between two former naval powerhouses.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

Amazing to see how international football has the technology to immediately know if a ball crossed a line, when the ball was touched, etc but US football still uses chains to measure if a ball has gone 10 yards and video review if the ball crossed into the endzone.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

And defending on a high-line. Did someone body swap Southgate?

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

I think this is the case. People see a single actor, but don't understand the organizational complexity behind it. This probably also produces the green lantern theory of the executive, because its difficult for people grasp how complex the US government is in its entirety.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:59 UTC

4 reviews? Seesh.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:44 UTC

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:43 UTC

Sorry, but this got a legit laugh out loud. Well done sir. Well done.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

I hate to be the one that has to say this, but people don't get to decide what a democracy is. Only Robert Dahl and Adam Przeworski get to. Sorry, but thems the rules.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

How does he keep getting a contract? In all of world football, they keep going back to...him?

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

I think you need to turn in your polisci card, Tom.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

Here is a two hour lecture on active learning

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:52 UTC

Since George Clooney is chiming in on things here is my favorite take on him from Tina Fey

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C58...

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

There are many reasons for the party's paralysis right now. 1) Biden may not be sure if he wants to drop out 2) Internal disagreement on if Biden should drop out 3) Absence of clear understanding of how the decision will be received 4) Absence of rules on how to resolve Biden dropping out

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

Its growing because we are considering decisions that a party *could* make but in which there are no rules to formally guide it. The party will continue following its rules, but if it does make a change, we really can't have a good idea of what it will do.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

Julia is one of the best people in the US on understanding the processes of party behavior. You should read this.

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:40 UTC

The Democratic Party can choose to do whatever it wants with its party nomination rules and that doesn't change whether we're a democracy. The Democratic Party, however, cannot choose whether voters or party activists perceive the party's decision to be democratic/legitimate.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

I'm 100% on board for a critical juncture w/re to our parties as long as it does not lead to a Hungary like outcome.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:35 UTC

If the fact that if a party does not allow voters to have a say in its nomination processes does not qualify as being undemocratic blows your mind, wait till you learn about undemocratic democratic transitions.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:10 UTC

There are a lot of people online making the case that voters must-have a say in party nomination processes for a system to qualify as a democratic. They are incorrect. That is the scope of my post.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Did I say they should do that? Don't infer something that I didn't say.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:45 UTC

Dear people in my mentions. Parties around the world do not use primaries to select their candidates. There is nothing undemocratic about a party doing it. Yours truly, A comparative political parties scholar.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:43 UTC

If Joe Biden can walk from the White House to Capitol Hill, he stays. If not, you get Kamala, Whitmer, and Shapiro on a stage and whoever gives the most moving speech takes the nom.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

This transition is not going well. Basically all my potential contributions to the PSLF were ignored. Emails explained that it should take through July to get everything on board...so I'm waiting until then

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

I don't have a strong preference on Biden because of how much uncertainty there is, but seeing stuff like this cross my path is going to kill me. I'm begging people to learn how parties work. You can't Aaron Sorkin your way out of this.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

Please pause your freakout about the POTUS election to appreciate that there is a trailer for Severance season 2 now.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

Academics: I want to be an academic so I don't have a boss Also academics: Who assigned me so many projects!?

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:13 UTC

I don't understand why people are still there. Its not remotely good anymore and thats before considering its a space for Nazis and just *the worst* people.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:57 UTC

All these performative Christian policies but dead silence on the command to have no poor among us.

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

Coming soon: a new SCOTUS ruling saying the DoJ can't investigate justices

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:33 UTC

TFW you return to the US from Europe and there are no trains and everyone is driving oversized pickup truck's

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Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

It's always the people you suspect the most