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I'm leery as fuck about Biden but Jesus at this point it's fucking stunning to have someone without an overt psychological pathology as the President.

Like it's fucking weird to have someone who can devise policy and explain that policy and petition congress to make that policy into law and not just screaming that he's going to magically make another country pay for the racist border wall designed to keep them out.

It's been as much a blessing as a curse that most of the time Trump has had no fucking idea how to implement policies.

Remember that shit he was doing with the Census? He fucked it up because he just declared something and left it to others to figure out how. It's not happening.

But then you had the times when Trump was like "Make the brown people stop" and he threw Stephen Miller at it and we end up with kids in cages and troops on the Mexican border with vague orders to maybe start shooting people.

It's been this constant farce of horrors.

The "trade war" with China, what the fuck was that?

Place tariffs and demand negotiation.

Wait, no, they implement their own tariffs. MORE TARIFFS THEN.

Shit they still aren't negotiating and now to keep the farmers from revolting we did a socialism shit fuck shit

Iran, North Korea ... that's just a goddamn disaster. What was even the point of all that shit? What was the policy goal? What the hell did Trump accomplish?

At least by pissing off NATO there's a whole lot of countries that would be willing to extradite ...

THAT WASN'T EVEN HIS THAT WAS PAUL RYAN'S https://t.co/hIqWPm9zF2

It's stunning to think he sat in office for four years and his only major legislative accomplishment was making rich people richer with his tax plan
— Anthony (@APope45) January 17, 2021

And the one single lizard brain accomplishment he made - appoint SCOTUS judges to overthrow the election - and they wouldn't even overthrow the election!

He's just all id, all the time, screaming and farting and jerking himself off through life.

Eh. It's splitting the baby.

The best solution would be to change labor law and end the practice of tipping in the United States altogether.

It's a half-measure, but it's what we're getting and I hope it helps someone. https://t.co/NmIJIvEcon

His stimulus package seems really good. Ending subminimum wages for tipped workers is pretty huge.
— Matticus\U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308 (@Stoutstone) January 17, 2021

Like I don't know if you know this America, but the whole "we'll pay you less and you'll make it up with tips" thing is fucking barbaric and the rest of the world looks at us like we've got shit smeared on our faces.

But hey, we still allow the state to use murder as a punitive measure so the tipping thing is the least of our barbarism.

You can't sell something if you don't slap a price tag on it in the first place. https://t.co/k6sD8j9KUb

Agreed, but that seems like a tough sell.
— Matticus\U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308 (@Stoutstone) January 17, 2021

Yeah, you're not lying.

We need someone who will be willing to get dirty, to pull hair and kick nuts. That's our only hope of keeping them down.

I don't think Biden's that guy. I guess we'll see. https://t.co/touFFoMSPa

The problem with incompetent authoritarian coups is that they're generally followed by competent ones.
2024's gonna be bad.
— nobue (@nobue_weh) January 17, 2021

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The disrespect was absolutely unacceptable. No self-respecting African-American should be allowing old White dudes to talk to them this way. (THREAD)

The other thing that irritated me was his demand that we work with White Hispanics. We GOTTA do it.

Nobody is else is told they have to work with other racial groups except African-Americans. No other racial groups are ridin for us!

I'll show you. 2/

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) advocates for all people of colors. It was founded by Blacks, but looked out for all the Brown immigrants that came here AFTER us.

Black folks fought for and protected the rights of all non-White people.
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Other groups don't. I looked.

The National Council for Asians and Pacific Islanders don’t advocate for Black people. I haven't heard on call for them to help and support Black people.

The Jewish Federations don’t advocate for Black people either. Nobody is telling them they need to include Black people in their agendas or work with them.

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US is the world leader in SG research, with most funding from private sources – largely billionaires, wealthy individuals, and their boutique foundations – with ties to Silicon Valley tech firms, venture capital, and Wall Street hedge funds (also major donor bases for Dem Party)

Some philanthropists funding SG research include Bill Gates, Rachel Pritzker (billionaire heir of Pritzker family; Chair of Board at Breakthrough Institute), Chris Sacca/Lower Carbon Capital (billionaire VC, deep ties to Silicon Valley). All representatives of “green” capitalism

Leading centrist think tanks and environmental orgs like EDF and Resources for the Future (RFF), both of which take corporate funding (with RFF taking money from fossil fuel industry, e.g. Aramco, Chevron, Shell) support SG research and promote its inclusion in US climate policy

RFF recently published an SG policy paper by Harvard economists Joseph Aldy (fmr. Special Advisor to Obama for Energy and Environment) and Richard Zeckhauser that advocates SG as merely one prong of “prudent” climate policy:

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After 4 years of Donald Trump, the US must "reassure" its allies.

That's what I'm reading/hearing lately, such as in this @nytimes piece. What do international relations scholars know about reassuring allies? Can it be done? Is it even

This passage from the article captures well the call for "reassurance": the US must convince its allies in Asia and Europe that the US would indeed use its nukes to protect them.

That's a tall order!

Indeed, such a tall order that it's been a major question explored by international relations scholars for a long time. A LONG TIME.

The topic was of keen debate in the 1950s, with Henry Kissinger writing a series of pieces on the topic, such as this 1956 @ForeignAffairs

The academic discussion picked up in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

This included Robert Schelling's paper in the first issue of the Journal of Conflict

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@simonbarrow @Ekklesia_co_uk Some thoughts on Fintan's piece.

Can Joe Biden make America great again?

Since the day Trump was elected America as we thought we knew it was over, there was no way back, there would only be a way forward. This was not necessarily bad, bc the old imperial America did much harm in the world. 1/

The fissures O'Toole points to have always been there. White supremacy has structured our society far more than ppl realize bc it's been internalized as a communal assumption about who should wield political and eoconomic power. 2/

The task facing Biden is enormous, perhaps the most challenging any president has ever faced and O'Toole captures the complexity of someone who knows suffering being able to lead/offer us vision in this moment. I have consistently underestimated him . . .3/

but perhaps he is the bridge to what comes next. I think it is undeniable that we are now sliding toward open civil war, being held hostage to the guns we allowed to proliferate, but Biden, if he sees clearly, could help. Public facing rhetoric of healing is fine, 4/

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