Max Fisher

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

@MarkLGoldberg @evanchill mark you always know how to cheer me up — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@evanchill i have some bad news for you about the past 15-20 years — 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

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Does anyone remember who made this prediction? It’s a fascinating insight — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Five months into this, with every govt and expert studying it, there are still enormous gaps in our knowledge about when, where, and how outbreaks happen. Is it so shocking that the WHO might not have all the answers within 2 or 3 weeks of a single outbreak in central China? — 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

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@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

I’m not sure I fully understand why everyone insists on describing any degree of US-China competition as “a new Cold War.” The actual Cold War was a hair-trigger nuclear stalemate plus an extremely violent set of global proxy conflicts. US-China competition is neither of those. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ProfTalmadge: Rather than a serious effort to adapt arms control to a world of multiple nuclear-armed great powers (a very real challen… — 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

RT @IrfanDhalla: This is a great explainer from ⁦@Max_Fisher⁩. It isn’t just test and trace. It is #TestTraceIsolateSupport. Seems th… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I wrote about the last coronavirus taboo: centralized quarantine https://t.co/N3rGpq42dp — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@EmilyDreyfuss @mattyglesias what was/is getting missed do you think? — 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

One of the many things I don’t understand about Silicon Valley culture is how it’s simultaneously dominated by rich… https://t.co/4sbGbTKdDK — 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 @Neil_Irwin: This sentence, man. This sentence. https://t.co/UoQotmtuzE — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Lattif: “Only six people were allowed at the funeral. What do you do if you have five brothers and two sisters? Who do you take and who… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It sort of gives away the game on blaming China for US coronavirus deaths that the virus actually traveled to the US from Italy, after it had a terrible outbreak exacerbated by govt failures, and literally no one is even considering demanding reparations from Italy. — 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

Hot take: For all the awfulness of pre-covid air travel, we’ll soon look back on it as an incredible bargain (be anywhere in the world within a day & for less than the cost of your hotel stay) whose indignities were manageable and often well worth it. https://t.co/Ed1tzmU0Ha — PolitiTweet.org

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@MazMHussain I will always fav cardboard Khomeini content — PolitiTweet.org

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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