anyways, the idea i'm outlining here isn't exactly new, I'm stealing it from people a lot smarter than I am bsky.app/profile/sky....

In Arms & Influence Schelling argues favorably for the strategy of bombing North Vietnam, so at least that one example was empirically a massive failure. I'm not saying he's wrong writ large, but certainty that he had a lot of blind spots.

A. "Weak sides who have no real initiative capability wine." is is a very differnent arg from your initial tweet, which read in highlighted part, said. B. Your initial tweet, with an incredulous “what history & theory FFS” was a clear implication that I was not actually familiar with the topic.

also the "I probably am better placed to know this than you." is credentialism - you do have a PhD in this, but being well educated absolutely does not give you the right to *attack* anyone else, particularly amateurs (like me!), from engaging with the concepts in good faith (as in my initial post).

No, actually, I’m not going to do that. If you are going to make the claim that I have made an error in my understanding of Thomas Schilling’s concept of initiative, or that my argument that Dems should be more active not reactive in politics, then you need provide evidence for that claim.

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I agree with her. She has the expertise and you don't. You should back off. Especially since you're a male and she's a woman with superior knowledge. You should respect her and defer to her.

[chat sends me this]

oops! all mad

chat sends another one, apparently I'm dangerous because I read the book wrong

😂 come to life. More mad than anyone has ever been.

she tried to quote dunk on me for saying that her behavior was worse for academic communication than any random amateur being wrong motes and bleep-bleep beams

Yeah if I were her I would try not being a huge asshole

Wow

One of the worst aspects of academic culture is people thinking that believing themselves to be right gives them the right to be rude 😤

It works great if you're sitting behind a ton of Kursk style prepared defences. But when your entire fortification is a strongly(ish) worded letter and spam texts asking for donations... Well