Or in not cynical terms: if your dog loves a toy to death, buy some replacements

Thanks for pointing it out.

Who did the study anyway? CAP?

Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses issues concerning political, social, economic, and environmental change in local, national, and international contexts.

The journal has a tradition of presenting critical and innovative analytical perspectives that challenge prevailing orthodoxies. It publishes original research articles on all world regions and is open to all theoretical and methodical approaches.

https://www.scipublications.org/report/impact-factor-of-Studies-in-Comparative-International-Development.html

I didn’t waste my time studying a study

If checking before you spout something incorrect is “wasting your time”, then why should anyone take what you say seriously?

It took me way less long to check than it did to write this comment, who’s wasting time here?

According to one study 🙄

A study that samples 148 different articles, I’m sure you reviewed a good selection of them before you came to a different conclusion than the study did, right?

It’s not like you just named 6 very different politicians and claimed they’re all the same because “neoliberal”, that would be exactly my point.

According to one study of 148 scholarly articles, neoliberalism is almost never defined but used in several senses to describe ideology, economic theory, development theory, or economic reform policy. It has become used largely as a term of abuse and/or to imply a laissez-faire market fundamentalism virtually identical to that of classical liberalism – rather than the ideas of those who attended the 1938 colloquium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism = liberalism I don’t like

General Buck Turgidson

General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.

It sounds to me like that’s the perfect time to elect a new president, one suited for the times

Is that a Turkish Van?

They’re probably still in the planning stages at this point

Atlanta isn’t a country, which ones are you talking about?

I believe in Rome they watched Circus Vulpes

I think it’s mostly inertia

Maybe you should use “bribery” then

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lob·by: seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue.

How isn’t this lobbying?

At this point I think everyone is waiting to see how the war turns out. Nobody’s getting paid if they lose

Maybe their leader is going for a The Mouse That Roared gambit

I do love a bird that yells its own name

Bold talk for someone armed with water rockets

I’m in awe of the bravery it takes to use civil disobedience in Iran