Pepe Weber
@pepecw.bsky.social
Student of Political Science and English | Student Research Assitant at Institut for Political Science & Institute for Didactic of Democracy Hannover 📊📚
The pension crisis is fundamentally a problem of democracy. No party wants to raise the retirement age or cut pensions as they fear backlash from the largest voting bloc: seniors (rational choice at its best). 42% of voters are over 60. A real reform might only be possible if ... /1
July 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The pension crisis is fundamentally a problem of democracy. No party wants to raise the retirement age or cut pensions as they fear backlash from the largest voting bloc: seniors (rational choice at its best). 42% of voters are over 60. A real reform might only be possible if ... /1
Is the economy really the universal remedy for societal acceptance, as the CDU wants us to believe? At least, data suggests that a positive assessment of the German economy (AES) is linked to...
July 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Is the economy really the universal remedy for societal acceptance, as the CDU wants us to believe? At least, data suggests that a positive assessment of the German economy (AES) is linked to...
Students who have only taken a statistics class without receiving a proper introduction to probability will look at 100 shots of vodka in front of them, thinking that only 40 will get them drunk. With that in mind, cheers!
July 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Students who have only taken a statistics class without receiving a proper introduction to probability will look at 100 shots of vodka in front of them, thinking that only 40 will get them drunk. With that in mind, cheers!
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If I hear someone referring to ChatGPT as "Chattie" one more time, I'm gonna snap and hit them with a bowling ball.
June 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If I hear someone referring to ChatGPT as "Chattie" one more time, I'm gonna snap and hit them with a bowling ball.
Reposted by Pepe Weber
Gonna start sections in all the big conference that’s called “barely political science” about all the cool stuff that’s happening in our discipline that people don’t think is “Real Poli Sci”
June 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Gonna start sections in all the big conference that’s called “barely political science” about all the cool stuff that’s happening in our discipline that people don’t think is “Real Poli Sci”
When will @unihannover.bsky.social offer asylum for all the foreign students of Harvard University? I’m sure the offer will be appreciated.
May 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
When will @unihannover.bsky.social offer asylum for all the foreign students of Harvard University? I’m sure the offer will be appreciated.
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Googles I/O, especially their audio engine, made me think again about how personal relationships will and are starting to (!) be impacted by AI. Heard the likes of “I talked to ‘Chatty’ the other day” way too often in the last few weeks to not be concerned. What does Putnam have to say about this?
May 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Googles I/O, especially their audio engine, made me think again about how personal relationships will and are starting to (!) be impacted by AI. Heard the likes of “I talked to ‘Chatty’ the other day” way too often in the last few weeks to not be concerned. What does Putnam have to say about this?
AI-written term papers wouldn't be a problem if lecturers encoded students' past term papers/essays into linguistic features. Then, conduct a principal component analysis. If the newly submitted term papers don't cluster with the student's earlier work, it likely wasn’t written by them.
May 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
AI-written term papers wouldn't be a problem if lecturers encoded students' past term papers/essays into linguistic features. Then, conduct a principal component analysis. If the newly submitted term papers don't cluster with the student's earlier work, it likely wasn’t written by them.
Wer ist der Heide-Mörder?
May 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Wer ist der Heide-Mörder?
Trump is averaging 4,149 words per week on TruthSocial and X since his inauguration. Meanwhile, undergraduates struggle with their 4000-word term papers all semester.
April 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Trump is averaging 4,149 words per week on TruthSocial and X since his inauguration. Meanwhile, undergraduates struggle with their 4000-word term papers all semester.
It’s interesting that those concerned about offence tend to say Jewish people rather than Jew. Because even though it’s the correct word, and not a slang word coined by racists, the deep burial of it in a bad place in the Christian unconscious means that it feels insulting anyway. [Jews Don’t Count]
April 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It’s interesting that those concerned about offence tend to say Jewish people rather than Jew. Because even though it’s the correct word, and not a slang word coined by racists, the deep burial of it in a bad place in the Christian unconscious means that it feels insulting anyway. [Jews Don’t Count]
Democracy = negative-sum game? On key issues like inequality & climate change, there’s broad consensus on the problem – yet disagreement on the path forward. The result: stagnation (often the worst possible outcome). How problematic is this die the support of democracy?
March 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Democracy = negative-sum game? On key issues like inequality & climate change, there’s broad consensus on the problem – yet disagreement on the path forward. The result: stagnation (often the worst possible outcome). How problematic is this die the support of democracy?
Even the bylaws of my club will be resilient than the German constitution in this respect. (Majorities can only be changed by the same majority.)
March 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Even the bylaws of my club will be resilient than the German constitution in this respect. (Majorities can only be changed by the same majority.)
"Regardless how nuclear war begins, it ends with complete Armageddon-like destruction. With the death of, at minimum, a half billion people in the war's opening alone. Followed by the starvation and death of almost everyone who initially survived."* The only things preventing this desaster are…/1
February 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"Regardless how nuclear war begins, it ends with complete Armageddon-like destruction. With the death of, at minimum, a half billion people in the war's opening alone. Followed by the starvation and death of almost everyone who initially survived."* The only things preventing this desaster are…/1
With Söder (and some extent Merz) stating that the CDU/CSU won’t enter a coalition with the Greens, and a new GroKo looking like the most probable outcome, I wonder how many Green voters will switch to the Social Democrats to strengthen them & ensure at least some "leftist" policies get implemented.
February 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
With Söder (and some extent Merz) stating that the CDU/CSU won’t enter a coalition with the Greens, and a new GroKo looking like the most probable outcome, I wonder how many Green voters will switch to the Social Democrats to strengthen them & ensure at least some "leftist" policies get implemented.
"The single most important lesson I have learned from campaigning is never to tell people they are selfish, and never assume that they aren't" [via The Reasoning Voter]
Luckily for the parties, @zeit.de got them covered.
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-02/wahlprogramme-parteien-steuern-rechner
Luckily for the parties, @zeit.de got them covered.
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-02/wahlprogramme-parteien-steuern-rechner
February 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"The single most important lesson I have learned from campaigning is never to tell people they are selfish, and never assume that they aren't" [via The Reasoning Voter]
Luckily for the parties, @zeit.de got them covered.
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-02/wahlprogramme-parteien-steuern-rechner
Luckily for the parties, @zeit.de got them covered.
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-02/wahlprogramme-parteien-steuern-rechner
The one and only question I'm asking myself when writing term papers.
February 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The one and only question I'm asking myself when writing term papers.
In the recent ZDF talk show "Schlagabtausch," the candidates had 30 seconds to present their most important election topic. Watching it, those 30 seconds were a textbook example of issue ownership. (No, not everyone said migration).
February 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
In the recent ZDF talk show "Schlagabtausch," the candidates had 30 seconds to present their most important election topic. Watching it, those 30 seconds were a textbook example of issue ownership. (No, not everyone said migration).
I know this is confusing. „Der politische Aufstieg der Trump-freundlichen Broligarchen stellt den Schlachtruf der Boston Tea Party, ‚no taxation without representation‘ (Keine Besteuerung ohne politische Vertretung), auf den Kopf.“
January 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I know this is confusing. „Der politische Aufstieg der Trump-freundlichen Broligarchen stellt den Schlachtruf der Boston Tea Party, ‚no taxation without representation‘ (Keine Besteuerung ohne politische Vertretung), auf den Kopf.“
How is this even legal? A higher threshold for decision-making, but a lower one to change the rules. In Germany, BVerfG justices are elected by a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag, yet the law… \🧵
January 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
How is this even legal? A higher threshold for decision-making, but a lower one to change the rules. In Germany, BVerfG justices are elected by a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag, yet the law… \🧵
Fighting fire with fire? In the latest issue of @blaetter.bsky.social , Thomas Greven cautions against the potential ‘Orbánisation’ of the United States. To safeguard American democracy in anticipation of the upcoming Trump presidency, /🧵
January 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Fighting fire with fire? In the latest issue of @blaetter.bsky.social , Thomas Greven cautions against the potential ‘Orbánisation’ of the United States. To safeguard American democracy in anticipation of the upcoming Trump presidency, /🧵
I wonder how long Trump’d be able to postpone the next election. Hot take: The Supreme Court wouldn’t bother.
January 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I wonder how long Trump’d be able to postpone the next election. Hot take: The Supreme Court wouldn’t bother.
Milei fans be like: Right to demonstrate & freedom of information restricted; poverty @ 53%; > 6 mio. people no longer have enough 💵 to eat daily; min. pension at €240 (@ Europ cost of living) - but bro comes around & says “but inflation has dropped to 3.5% per month.”[ @blaetter.bsky.social 12'24]
January 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Milei fans be like: Right to demonstrate & freedom of information restricted; poverty @ 53%; > 6 mio. people no longer have enough 💵 to eat daily; min. pension at €240 (@ Europ cost of living) - but bro comes around & says “but inflation has dropped to 3.5% per month.”[ @blaetter.bsky.social 12'24]
Love it to buy second hand books in bad condition with personal notes from my predecessor. (Here: „Trump is a fascist“ in How Democracies Die)
January 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Love it to buy second hand books in bad condition with personal notes from my predecessor. (Here: „Trump is a fascist“ in How Democracies Die)
Democracies die in darkness - genau mein Humor
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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January 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Democracies die in darkness - genau mein Humor
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