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5 years, 7 months ago

the Syrian war as a series of extravagantly funded proxy wars

The war’s complexity makes it difficult to see a viable path forward, but there is a sense in which it would be foolish to think of the conflict as one big Rubik’s cube in need of solving, because the complexity itself is part of the problem — the best thing to do with the Rubik’s cube would be to …

—p.12 n+1 Issue 28: Half-Life The Syria Catastrophe (11) missing author
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fatuous

TRUMP’S CLAIMS to independence based on his private stash of billions were, of course, fatuous

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the investment theory of party competition

The “investment theory of party competition,” advanced by political scientist Thomas Ferguson, holds that investors exert influence through monetary contributions but also through organizations [...]

[...] The strength of the New Deal, he argues, came from the alliance between labor and the bloc…

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chiasmus

Yes, they seem to have a teeth-grinding fondness for the rhetorical figure of chiasmus (“We can build on the strength of our diversity, and the diversity of our strengths”).

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bathos

Yes, a majority of Democratic senators voted to invade Iraq, later indulging in bathetic recantations as they transferred their animus to Russia

ugh i love it

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