Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Max_Fisher: It’s pretty funny that this joke tweet turned out to be our trillion dollar military’s actual plan https://t.co/OPA2RaWVcU — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It’s pretty funny that this joke tweet turned out to be our trillion dollar military’s actual plan https://t.co/OPA2RaWVcU — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Max_Fisher: after all the sturm und drang (sorry) about peering into the german soul to understand the tank hesitancy the explanation t… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

one of maxs Golden Rules of Thumb is that when a competently-governed state appears to be behaving irrationally it usually just means we're misunderstanding its incentive structure — PolitiTweet.org

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after all the sturm und drang (sorry) about peering into the german soul to understand the tank hesitancy the explanation turned out to be (a) pretty straightforward (b) more or less what the germans said it was — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @schanmalik: As the #MontereyPark shooter was a 72-year-old man, an observation about how some Asian American elders consume media latel… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Max_Fisher: The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns. https://t… — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm sympathetic to the Ukr view that tanks are necessary for it to sustain the fight. But a lot of prominent US+UK voices making a very different argument that Moscow can and should be forced into full surrender, which is not really about tanks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty striking how quickly the Western debate on German tanks has sprawled from "how would Leopard 2s affect the battlefield" to "should the West seek Russia's outright military defeat" — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cd_hooks: jacinda seems lovely and all but it's frankly insulting we're being expected to learn about new zealand. they don't even incl… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JoannaMang: this is a very funny thing to say about visiting upstate New York https://t.co/VJmOY16m4J — PolitiTweet.org

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Unpaid product endorsement: The @WarOnTheRocks @KofmanMichael podcast absolutely worth the cost of membership. Super interesting Russia/Ukraine deep dives, historical & present-day. Kind of show that’s for anyone but makes you feel like a fellow expert. https://t.co/Z2AQay40sP — PolitiTweet.org

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For 20+ years we've been inundated with warnings that China is about to take over this or that chunk of the globe. It never happens. This thread is a good examination of what the predictions get wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@grouchybagels Damn they already optioned your dissertation nice work — PolitiTweet.org

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Ever since the Cold War ended, US & European leaders have been steadily eroding the right of people facing unbearable danger to seek asylum abroad. This week, Biden landed something of a death blow to that right. https://t.co/vci97fzcPe — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cbudoffbrown: Like so many, I'm grieving over the loss of @blakehounshell. He was my partner and confidant for the entirety of my @poli… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NPRKelly: Struck by the outpouring of praise & grief tonight for ⁦@blakehounshell⁩. Wish we could have told him all this last week, wis… — PolitiTweet.org

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You've never met a kinder, sweeter, more thoughtful or more supportive guy. There's a reason that everybody in his many orbits, and he kept quite a few spinning, loved him. Whether you knew him or not, we are all worse off without him. We miss you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@fordm @dylanmatt Great headline — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt Purpose-built capital as coup-proofing measure is no accident – Myanmar, Egypt, Nigeria all did it. Some speculation Brazil also saw it as an ancillary benefit — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DionRabouin: The incident in Phoenix wasn’t the first time I’ve been harassed and/or detained by the police for seemingly no reason. It… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Max_Fisher: The images out of Brazil yesterday might've looked eerily similar to Jan 6th, but there are some extremely important differ… — PolitiTweet.org

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So while Brazil's Jan8 is a scary reminder that grassroots far-right authoritarianism remains a potent force, it's also a (relative) success story in girding against those forces. After years of global democratic decline, that's actually a little encouraging. — PolitiTweet.org

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Brazil's coup-proofing worked. You can see it in how differently things played out there, vs in the US, since Bolsonaro lost in October. Instead of seriously challenging the election as feared, he effectively conceded and left the country. He got the message. A coup would fail. — PolitiTweet.org

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4. COUP-PROOFING // US political institutions were mostly unable or unwilling to do the work to gird the system against a possible coup attempt. Not so in Brazil. Lula, domestic groups, intl orgs & Biden admin all put heavy work into preparing every level of the system for a J6. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Brazil J8ers plan appears to have been "cross our fingers and hope the military backs us." No plan at all. Even if they had actually tried to cultivate the military, Lula foresaw this and spent months preemptively cultivating military elites first. https://t.co/WvqXdRQiQB — PolitiTweet.org

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3. INSTITUTIONS // This is really important. Coups need major political institutions to back them to succeed. J6ers, including Trump, knew this & spent weeks cultivating Congress, the VP, and SCOTUS. In Brazil, the J8ers had only a very minimal & very weak version of this plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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In other words: Brazil appears to have been largely / entirely bottom-up. Whereas Jan6 was both bottom-up and top-down, and both need to happen for a coup to actually succeed. — PolitiTweet.org

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That elite involvement didn't materialize in Brazil. Even if it turns out some pols played a role in quietly encouraging the unrest, that's not the same thing as leaders visibly coordinating to seize power from the top. — PolitiTweet.org

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2. ELITE SUPPORT // Coups don't succeed without heavy elite involvement. That was one of the most important parts of Jan6: the highly visible role of Trump and others seeking to overturn the election. That's how coups work: elites wield unrest, i.e. the capitol siege, as tools. — PolitiTweet.org