@kamilkazani This is not true. Brazil is a lot more like the US than the ottomans

@NotMeNotYouAlso @ChadNotChud Yeah you're a real big man for going to the grocery store and buying a steak

@wrathofgnon European cities are generally newer than you'd think and American cities are older than you'd think

@littmath @thesasho @1WhiteTruck @Blobster81 @nope_its_lily They don't have any, they're just dumb and angry. You gotta think of them like dogs with rabies

@Andr3jH Race is a Sephora construct

@ordinaryepsilon @nope_its_lily The transition was peaceful in the sense that no external power invaded them and installed a democracy (like iraq or afghanistan). I am not defending the soviet union

@DeepDishEnjoyer This is my quant

@nope_its_lily I think generally autocracies have to get things correct on policy a lot more to have buy in from the population. This is why china (or singapore) are stable. But once things start to go wrong democracies have a greater ability to self correct.

@nope_its_lily Also arguably British India

@xgigglypuff See the mistake you made is thinking they had the ability to think for themselves

@tylerhnorris - Matt Yglesias

@streetfrontier Sure but it's going to be hard to do all that. Easier to just build more metros and add more buses

@GrantSlatton This trick works almost everywhere btw. A notable exception are the French speaking countries, instead of borrowing words like normal people they insist on awful translations

@alz_zyd_ Do you believe that the trump tariffs are a rational revenue maximizing policy ?

@tolstoybb