Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

This line from an article I did on the show when Bowie died is reeeeeally speaking to me today. That feeling of wanting so badly to do something normal and just "go hear a concert." https://t.co/fVVXhQKPg0 https://t.co/D9bwz5TtHt — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Here's the show, which was broadcast into the East, which some Germans still swear helped bring down the Wall, and of which Bowie later said, "It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. I was in tears." https://t.co/cWu7XlQidB — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Today's "I thought I was fine, until" — listening to David Bowie's 1987 Berlin Wall show, thinking about the fear & isolation of divided Berlin that inspired "Heroes," getting hit with the lyrics "We're nothing, and nothing will help us / But we could be safer, just for one day" — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @yashar: Reporters aren’t above criticism or examination but Matt Lauer is literally the last person I want to hear from. https://t.co/e… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@Vinncent @HeerJeet The corollary is that even once we realized we were losing, we delayed withdrawing for fear of “losing credibility” in Soviet eyes. Soviet archives later revealed this was baseless. But same credibility concern brought up to justify every military action since. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@Vinncent @HeerJeet The forgetting is weird given that there’s an entire genre of popular culture in the US lamenting the overreaction in Vietnam — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@Vinncent @HeerJeet Yeah. And very easy to overstate even the simpler IR-driven balancing by China’s neighbors. Even Pakistan and North Korea are hedging. But as you say the US might well overreact anyway, esp given the panic that erupts every time a country somewhere accepts China investment. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

You won’t hear much about this explanation for China’s coronavirus failures — though it’s probably the truest — because neither Beijing nor the Trump administration has any political interest in promoting it. Which is creating an information vacuum being filled by nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

The Trump admin is again pushing the idea that China delayed Coronavirus response out of deliberate nefariousness. But as I wrote back in Jan, political dysfunction is a much likelier explanation — and is a clear pattern from public health crises in China: https://t.co/jtPZUq9TM1 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Feel like I finally understand the PewDiePie phenomenon and its significance (which is...enormous?) for the first time. https://t.co/sDgj6nAaZW — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias sure but it’s strange that this famously tiny and ideologically homogenous community has produced suc… https://t.co/694M8HmT8B — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

The extreme + centralized measures that Korea, Hong Kong, China are taking to prevent new outbreaks — *after* have suppressed transmission — are quite a contrast to the American strategy of reopening amid of multiple ongoing outbreaks and just doing a shrugmoji https://t.co/FReTTwqz9j — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @NYT_first_said: beforetimes — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @jamesoriel: "Each step toward reopening, then, is also a set of experiments with whole societies serving as guinea pigs — or, if you pr… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Seeing a lot of people who could really stand to google “selecting on the dependent variable” — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias Pretty far to the right at that https://t.co/dRDpJdj1dq — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @michaelcrowley: excellent big-picture synopsis by @Max_Fisher https://t.co/NXe2RUxcjM — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It's wild to see the food world in an uproar over one successful person tearing down another for no obvious reason. In journalism world this happens 37 times a day every single day no exceptions forever — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @nytimes: As countries afflicted with the coronavirus move ahead with reopening despite limited knowledge, whole societies are becoming… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

What happened to @johnholbein1? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @JustinWolfers: Pretty compelling evidence the problem is the virus, not the lockdown. https://t.co/7a2OFs8bbT https://t.co/NKSIIsfxFQ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@Breukelen299 @deisenman @nytimes @T_Inglesby Ugh, I’m so sorry about that. Fixing it right away. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @ChuBailiang: Goodbye China — for now. My time here is ending after 24 years. I am filled with sadness at leaving, and gratitude for fam… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Imagine living in a country where 15 infections is national news and everyone just assumes it’ll be taken care of within a DAY. And South Korea started out way worse than we did! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @lkmcgann: I spent a lot of time reporting on Tara Reade's allegations this year and last year. It is the most difficult story I've grap… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It's looking like this will be the first year since 2014 that I won't take a reporting trip to Germany and I already miss the hell out of that country of good-natured, rule-loving, fancy-glasses-wearing, bad-pasta-eating goofballs. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @whorevidal: https://t.co/nu7G6gWMxE — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias Attitudes toward China map pretty imperfectly onto DC’s broader ideological divides, which I think is part of what’s scrambling this. E.g. lots of liberals who start from the position that China’s policies are usually nefarious and its statements lies. So it feels like consensus. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@nktpnd Old and busted: social distancing, mitigation, sprint to a vaccine New hotness: The Smash Sparrows Campaign — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias You’ve really come around on centralized quarantine policies! — PolitiTweet.org