rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Trump's policies aren't the sort that trigger immediate disaster. Instead, his more closed U.S. economy, rejection of immigrants, and cronyism will slowly degrade economic activity. Fiscal largesse offsets that erosion for now, but the higher interest rates it provokes will take their own toll. 000
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 26/08/2026That makes sense. The question is: where did Mamdani point the public to this public information? 001
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Deportations should be added to the list of factors fueling inflation. 1290
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Deportations are also contributing to inflation, and that won't stop even if the Strait is opened or El Niño turns mild. 000
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 25/05/2026That's how conservatives balance those alternatives. 010
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Holding those beliefs simultaneously is inherently liberal. It’s what neoliberalism should be. 020
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Perhaps, but was the walkback planned before making the original statement? 030
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This is incorrect. These actions are abetted by a U.S. constitutional design that combines presidentialism with a range of counter majoritarian institutions that currently grant congressional majorities to a narrow range of public opinions that favor or are indifferent to these policies. 020
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I am not even sure which play you are referring to 000
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 19/12/2025This is the shot. Takaichi's statement is the chaser. www.scmp.com/news/china/m...scmp.comIs China changing tack and accepting North Korea as a nuclear-armed state?In a break with the recent past, Beijing makes no mention of ‘denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula’ in a white paper. 000
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Exactly! It's why choosing not to distort one's own market in response to mercantilist trading partners is typically optimal. Trump policy choices imply that Japan and Germany made better trade policy than the US over the past few decades. But observed performance suggests otherwise. 020
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 22/07/2025In the minds of Japanese voters, Sanseito's anti-foreigner position is likely much weaker than Sanseito's position on reducing the consumption tax. But foreign media focused on the former. 2143
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Hi Tobias, This is a major contrast to the post-war pattern in which the LDP outperformed as turnout rose. This pattern combined with an increasingly younger electorate will make the next lower house contest interesting. 010
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I feel this standard continues a long practice in social science of undervaluing replication relative to other sciences. Replication should be at least as strongly embraced by social sciences, probably more so. 000
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Clinton would be in her second term. 000
Reposted by @rossdschaap.bsky.socialCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second. 20245395436867
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Indeed, in this case it’s remembered not forgotten. 000
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Wasn't that pre-WW2 Republican isolationism? Western hemisphere plus Philippines. 000
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 14/12/2024American conservatism was great when it was classically liberal and pragmatic. Reagan moved against pragmatism. Trump moved against classical liberalism. Now the Republican Party's preferences are back to where they were pre-WW2: isolationist plutocracy, and employing state power toward that end. 010
rossdschaap.bsky.social @rossdschaap.bsky.social · 02/12/2024So you claim whataboutism is providing comparative context and evaluating the alternative situations. Why do you reject this? 020