Favorites December 8th 2021
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I was not aware of this, maybe this indicates that I'm not really working on the bleeding edge. Check out the full thread for more details.
Another item I wouldn't have thought of otherwise is that school shutdowns "also further undermined confidence in the country’s public-school system".
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Term limits as a protection against tyrants only works when the tyrants don't overturn the term limits. If power doesn't pass back and forth, it's not a democracy.
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This is a really good point, he gets into it a bit more in the thread:
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![Don Draper Madmen GIF](https://substackcdn.com/video/upload/e_loop,vs_40/vnbqbqqj5yezs0kbryu7.gif)
Including this part, which uses my favorite Mad Men gif to explain how much the American public thinks about Russia. The Russian public, perhaps understandably, see themselves as the center of US foreign policy.
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Speaking of which...
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More data on this, although there are so many studies coming out on Omicron now that it's a bit hard to keep it all straight.