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Post by jimmyspudboy on Jul 5, 2024 22:07:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2024 22:25:03 GMT -5
What was the one David Perdue did? Kamalamala
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2024 22:31:28 GMT -5
I didn’t realize Kamala has never won a competitive election for high office in her life.
She dropped out of the primary a month before the Iowa caucus.
She ran for senate in California unopposed except for another democrat (who pulled 17% of the vote and she got 39% so not even a majority).
So when people say she’s unelectable, she’s literally unelectable.
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Post by Perm’d by God on Jul 5, 2024 22:44:36 GMT -5
A lot of the people who’d do well at the actual functions of leadership are bad at running for office
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Post by NUKE THE INTERNET on Jul 5, 2024 22:47:29 GMT -5
A lot of the people who’d do well at the actual functions of leadership are bad at running for office Adlai E. Stevenson. Very arguably, Mario Cuomo.
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Post by Perm’d by God on Jul 5, 2024 22:53:29 GMT -5
A lot of the people who’d do well at the actual functions of leadership are bad at running for office Adlai E. Stevenson. Very arguably, Mario Cuomo. Drop some book recs. Think I’m gonna wanna get on some history for a bit
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Post by mots on Jul 5, 2024 23:02:11 GMT -5
Put Biden to sleep and put RFK on a debate stage. Can’t wait for Bidens staged debate!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2024 23:04:24 GMT -5
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Post by NUKE THE INTERNET on Jul 5, 2024 23:08:53 GMT -5
Adlai E. Stevenson. Very arguably, Mario Cuomo. Drop some book recs. Think I’m gonna wanna get on some history for a bit If I can think of any concrete ones, I'll let you know. In the meantime, it's basic, but read Robert Caro's The Power Broker if you haven't already done so. Regardless of one's apinion of Robert Moses (Caro's apinion of the man is low, as is mine), it's extremely informative about the history of New York City and New York state government (and New York's state government, in turn, served as a model for most other state governments later on). Delves heavily into the development of highway policy, outer-borough redlining and urban renewal, and many other Narc-ish topics. My history reading is extremely scattered and falls into the "this looks good, I think I'll eat it" school of deciding what to read. Among my relatively recent purchases have been Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz (173 pages down out of 399 of main body text), The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas, and When the Facts Change: Essays 1995–2010 by Tony Judt. Yeah, those all fall under European history, but that's a coincidence. I also borrowed from Judt's Postwar last year for lyrical inspiration.
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Post by mistah like ur post on Jul 5, 2024 23:33:51 GMT -5
Drop some book recs. Think I’m gonna wanna get on some history for a bit If I can think of any concrete ones, I'll let you know. In the meantime, it's basic, but read Robert Caro's The Power Broker if you haven't already done so. Regardless of one's apinion of Robert Moses (Caro's apinion of the man is low, as is mine), it's extremely informative about the history of New York City and New York state government (and New York's state government, in turn, served as a model for most other state governments later on). Delves heavily into the development of highway policy, outer-borough redlining and urban renewal, and many other Narc-ish topics. My history reading is extremely scattered and falls into the "this looks good, I think I'll eat it" school of deciding what to read. Among my relatively recent purchases have been Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz (173 pages down out of 399 of main body text), The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas, and When the Facts Change: Essays 1995–2010 by Tony Judt. Yeah, those all fall under European history, but that's a coincidence. I also borrowed from Judt's Postwar last year for lyrical inspiration. Yes. Caro is the best biographer of LBJ and the "Power Broker" provided insane insight of Moses. Mandatory reading if you care about urban planning. Lewis Mumford argued it better beforehand. If you don't care about any of that just watch this.
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Post by NUKE THE INTERNET on Jul 6, 2024 0:12:31 GMT -5
Perm’d by God, I was going to spare you, but you asked for recommendations, so... if you really want to go hard, I would suggest you track down a copy of Paul Grondahl's 1997 book Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma. I've mentioned before how Albany was basically a living case study in urban machine politics for some 70 years. Corning was mayor for 42 of them, making him the longest-serving mayor of a major city in this country (and despite its small size, it was considered a major city for a long time). Grondahl exhaustively researched his subject, a man who frankly could've been a brilliant executive but was content with acting in accordance with the machine's wishes because his desire to be in power was greater than his willingness to risk that power by exercising it. It goes heavily into the social history of Albany over his lifetime, the construction of the Empire State Plaza (surely one of the more contentious urban renewal projects in U.S. history) and Corning's role in facilitating it, and a general history of the O'Connell machine's evolving grip upon the city over the 20th century. At the same time, Erastus Corning 2nd was well-known for his accessibility and his personality quirks (some of which have inspired Broadway musicals, oddly enough). More broadly, it paints a picture of just how interconnected the social elites of the Northeast were during that time, and of the peak and decline of an old American city as the country's population (and politics) shifted after World War II. It's fairly dry reading, it's long, and it's about an obscure subject. But if you're up for a challenge, I lay one before you. And now it's crossword time. Edit: mistah like ur post, where should I start with Mumford? The City in History? (That's what's available from the local library system.)
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Post by Ian MacFlai on Jul 6, 2024 1:00:25 GMT -5
Empire State Plaza is one of the weirdest public places i've ever been in this country - i do not have the capacity to read a book about it but its existence is very intriguing
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Post by NUKE THE INTERNET on Jul 6, 2024 1:10:04 GMT -5
It's much more on the scale of a postwar Eastern Bloc reconstruction project than a typical American urban renewal project, considering the size of the city around it when construction began—an essentially very early modern Dutch town in layout, where not even 20 years before the Plaza's approval stood 17th-century Dutch-style frame houses in the middle of downtown. When I visited Dresden on tour, some of the buildings erected during the DDR looked pretty familiar.
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Post by thezman on Jul 6, 2024 1:11:32 GMT -5
Biden toting that he won the primary is so funny. I'm not sure if he's pulling the wool or if he genuinely believes it. Hard to tell with that guy :)
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Post by Perm’d by God on Jul 6, 2024 1:15:16 GMT -5
siiiiick solid recs, adding to my list.
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Post by NUKE THE INTERNET on Jul 6, 2024 1:27:20 GMT -5
And for lighter reading, I recommend Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King by Lloyd Bradley (also published as This Is Reggae Music). It's a thorough history of the Jamaican music industry, from its beginnings and the development of ska, through to the emergence of dancehall in the mid-Eighties. But it's also a social and political history of the late British West Indies and the first twen'ty years of Jamaican independence, including the intense political violence of the Seventies and the U.S. role in it. Many Jamaican music execs also later became politicians, as music was one of Jamaica's major export industries. Bradley also discusses West Indian immigration to the U.K. beginning in the late Forties, immigrants' cultural relationship with Jamaica and its music, and how reggae and ska developed distinct British forms as a result of different economic practices in the music industries of each country and greater economic opportunity in the U.K. Really fascinating and in-depth read on a topic (and in a field) that tends towards superficial examination.
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Post by Perm’d by God on Jul 6, 2024 1:29:23 GMT -5
When I get on my 10-20 pages a day type of shit it’s so over for some of you. I’m importing all my fucking notes and my library into Zotero and tagging all of it. You ever read a post so detailed, so thorough it blew your socks off? Cuz ur gonna.
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Post by NUKE THE INTERNET on Jul 6, 2024 1:30:42 GMT -5
When I get on my 10-20 pages a day type of shit it’s so over for some of you. I’m importing all my fucking notes and my library into Zotero and tagging all of it. You ever read a post so detailed, so thorough it blew your socks off? Cuz ur gonna. Well, yes, once.
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Post by Aaron on Jul 6, 2024 1:39:08 GMT -5
I am an actual idiot but NUKE sent me down an internet rabbit hole about the Empire State Plaza (something I didn’t even know existed before this page, again because dumb) and now it’s 2:30 and I’m totally fascinated (coaxed completely out of any desire for sleep I might have had) by this entire monstrosity, how it came to be, how it impacts people today and make them feel, those it displaced during its construction, etc, etc, etc.
Now I need to see this unsettling shit IRL.
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Post by throwdemgunz on Jul 6, 2024 8:19:14 GMT -5
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Post by hAloween h2o fan on Jul 6, 2024 9:05:33 GMT -5
Entirely plausible that he doesn't know the full scope of it. But his entire administration will and that's the problem.
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Post by Insufferable and uncompromisin on Jul 7, 2024 10:16:43 GMT -5
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Post by Osama Vinladen Jiménez López on Jul 7, 2024 13:08:08 GMT -5
When I get on my 10-20 pages a day type of shit it’s so over for some of you. I’m importing all my fucking notes and my library into Zotero and tagging all of it. You ever read a post so detailed, so thorough it blew your socks off? Cuz ur gonna. yeah this is how i post in the gkc thread. ain’t nothin new bud
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Post by Mr. Dingle Foot on Jul 7, 2024 14:02:12 GMT -5
Looks like New Fury's team came in 3rd in France.
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Post by ITID on Jul 7, 2024 14:37:33 GMT -5
I want a government that looks like infield batting splits
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Post by killedbyboard on Jul 7, 2024 14:48:33 GMT -5
Looks like a power meter for a golf swing or something.
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Post by Ronaldo Artest on Jul 7, 2024 15:38:45 GMT -5
The far right is not handling the election results in France very well!
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