If you want to say it's just privilege that lets me stay overseas, I can assure that moving back would far more expensive than stay given that exchange rates mean I'm effectively paid in Monopoly money

...shame on me for thinking he was actually as old as Hidetora

As I told my class this morning, if I, as a professor of American politics who's paid to teach this stuff, can't remember details of the March showdown, you guys as mid-information voters probably won't remember what happened this week, but you'll know that you're paying more for health care

Hadn't seen this before, thanks!

I think that's the base of my Tim Horton's opinion...why would I get donuts at Tim's when I could get much, much better donuts at the local dépanneur?

I think we disproportionally appreciate Mr. Donut because most other donut offerings here are so mediocre

Mr Donut of Revere, Mass has mostly good donuts but the coffee doesn't compete

The iced coffee drinks are where Dunkin shines

(The donuts used to be much better than they are now)

It's my opinions on the Tragically Hip that turn Canadians against me violently

Yeah Tim Horton's sucks

Also, they had tinned sardines back then? Or is that the an equivalent simile that the translator found?

If it makes you feel better, the entire field of international relations was based on a bad misreading of Thucydides for, like, 80 years

And Japan, and Singapore, and ect. You're exactly right that it felt like a natural progression at the time

#3 is really the point IMO where there's a critique to be made of the outreach in the 90s, because those were structural conditions that the WTO could never solve. Ignoring #2 is embarrassing and looks very bad in hindsight, but seemed confirmed by what else seemed to be happening at the time.

A lot of the critiques of liberalization with China almost always miss 1) What they would've done instead, 2) That China is it own country with power and agency and ability to chose its own direction, and China chose illiberalism, 3) China's scale and governance model always made it an awkward fit

The corollary is that big tent parties can't survive in moments of extreme polarization when supporters expect the party line to be held across all levels. I don't know if this is the moment it happens, but this could be a step towards Dems becoming a more ideologically coherent party like the GOP