whats wrong babe you have barely touched your 19th-century ottoman empire administrative and legal reorganization perfume
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had a great, extremely fulfilling summer and finally understood how people can be so disconnected from politics (spent a grand total of maybe 20 mins on twitter)
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still cant quite wrap my head around how this came to be but my current knowledge of the state of affairs is like someone who entered a coma late may and just woke up
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Alex Karp in a keffiyeh.
Quite the archival find in @weinbergersa's VALLEY OF DEATH.
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Ukraine lost in 1991. Nothing can justify the loss of millions of lives, the loss of an advanced economy, and the national catastrophe that unfolded — slowly at first, then as an avalanche.
I’d say Ukraine lost the war in the spring of 2022. Istanbul framework was already far worse than Minsk and what came later is worse yet. But it’s taking years to admit this rock-solid reality instead of looking for yet another magic wand or Wunderwaffe that will end Putin and undo Russia, because Atlantic Council and CEPA geniuses promised so to pay back Lockheed Martin donations.
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Missed connection: I saw you in the woods, I thought we'd have a moment, but, alas, you were texting (Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, "Die Erwartete", 1850).
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east german manic pixie STEM girlie to ordoliberal austerity auntie pipeline 💔
Young Angela Merkel at a physicists’ conference of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-Adlershof, 1987.
Community note
That is actress Jella Haase, not a younger Angela Merkel, in the photo
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i think the bigger tragedy is that “orientalism” entered the vocabulary of people who evidently have zero idea what it means so now they think an ottoman painter depicting ottomans is a gotcha against said. very advanced level of not getting either of them
I will never forgive Edward Said for convincing every humanities undergrad in the US that this is evil
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if you look at it and go ‘wow tiles -> orientalism good’ you are exactly the kind of philistine said was criticizing
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been saying for years that the akp should just close shop and relocate to the uk. theres no more surplus value to squeeze out of turkey whereas the uk is a virgin market of unmitigated squalor. uk gets eight lane highways, turks get a gin and tonic, everybody wins
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the akp will flatten the victorian trash and give them TOKI blocks with double glazed windows that actually close in 6 months with a 120-month payment plan. for all their historical misgivings brits still deserve to experience the baseline dignity of functional architecture……
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if you're a marxist my recommendation is that you get the best job you can, making lots of money doing as little as possible, with good benefits and plenty of paid vacation time
We dont need more or better Marxist professors we need a Marxist organized proletariat. Drop out of college and go move boxes for UPS or come lash shipping containers at the port
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