The new background photo is Lee Kwan Yew because I recently read his book "Third World to First". Retweets =/= endorsements.

Im jealous. Someone should make me read these.

But interestingly the majority of Gazans who oppose Oct. 7 have a lower voting propensity, so Hamas would win hypothetical elections based on the pole.

Hamas's policies are most unpopular with the people who suffer the most for it, makes sense.

Interesting that the popularity of Hamas in Gaza has gone way down, but not in West Bank. I remember there was popularity gap before but it's gotten way larger.

Perhaps they define free speech as only relevant to non-political speech? But governments rarely regulate non-political speech.

I really don't understand how Europeans say this "you can have free speech unless you support my rival political parties" seems obviously wrong by definition to an American. But to them there is a different definition of free speech that I guess is non-political speech only.

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RT @providenceluvr: honestly cuba has destroyed any lingering sympathies towards socialism and I feel incredibly stupid and naive for havin….

RT @IsaacKing314: This is, apparently, fake. Many of the historical and legal details are just made-up, even the ones that purportedly rela….

Only Nixon could go to China.

It makes me wonder what if thr first industrial states had gibe communist, perhaps around the 1840s uprisings. In a world with few capitalist states, the performance gap between command and free economies would be hidden.

Most people find the argument for capitalism confusing, counterintuitive, and kind of icky (greed is good), but capitalism succeeded because it delivered higher standards of living than communism even if voters didn't understand why.

RT @Sam_Dumitriu: In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different….

One theory is that having independent tribal political units allows them to act autonomously, and many nontribal Palestinians feel the same but cannot act alone. That seems plausible, particularly in Gaza where repression is fierce.

During the Crusades Bedouine also sided more often with the Franks, but of course those were alliances against the Turkish invaders who threatened to consume bedouine pasture and water.

Interesting trend of tribal leaders and more bedouin communities breaking with the PLO project. It parallels the 1970s divide between Jordan (more tribal and more bedu), which was more interested in peace and deescalation than the PLO. A similar dynamic in Gaza recently.

Weird. I have asked people from divided societies their ethnic or sectarian identities hundreds of times and have never had this happen.

RT @Sam_Dumitriu: This would be illegal to build in the UK. (All buildings 18m or higher must have two staircases.).

RT @_hudsonc: Darfur armed groups to keep cabinet posts in new government. That also means that they will keep fighting on the side of the….

RT @sgodofsk: this is a critical failure of reading comprehension.