Alexander Thatcher

First of my articles from my time in Turkey is out!

Yuvamız İstanbul is the name of the overall project and not distinct from İstanbul Kreşleri right?

There comes a time in every man's life when his sister's obsessive lesbian fanbase discovers you're in Turkey and write about Turkish politics and make a long post about her advocating for the boycott of regime-aligned businesses.

If a Turkish follower could help me find mean things İnce said about Kılıçdaroğlu I will literally love you forever and do literally anything for you.

The left accelerationist case for Trump paints him as a vile vessel who will, nevertheless, achieve important goals: (1) make the US less militaristic & (2) empower the Global South.

It makes intuitive sense bc Trump is weakening USG & Western alliances.

But it’s deeply naive. Here's why: 🧵

I kind of predicted this would be the case, but writing for an Armenian magazine seems to open some doors in Turkey. I don't think I'd be able to talk to the level of people I'm able to talk to if my background was writing for sites that focused on the Balkans.

This was an absolutely astonishing episode, I'm so excited to read the book.

Anyone know where I could get 54mg Concerta in İstanbul? I have a prescription, but no one has it.

This is accurate af 😂

r/MandelaEffect u/KnatEgeis99 • 188d The lyrics of Get Low have changed. Flip-Flop It used to be "till the sweat drops down and falls", "all these females crawl" and "ah skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet skeet", but now it's "till the sweat drops down my balls", "all these bitches crawl", and "ah skeet skeet motherfuckers". I hate this. The OG lyrics were classic and so much better. KidNamedMohammed • 188d I think you were listening to the clean version brother

reddit continues to unintentionally produce the funniest people and situations imaginable

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

A lot of Western Anatolian Köfte (meatball) dishes derive from Balkan migrants, but can anyone think of *why* these taste and look so Albanian to me? I asked the owner of the restaurant and he said his family was "from Kosovo, in Skopje."

Düzce saw huge numbers of Circassian, Ubykh, Abkhaz, Laz and Georgian migrants arrive in the 19th Century, and it's not difficult to see why. Germans, Poles and Scandinavians came to the Midwest because it reminded them of home. This place looks and feels like the Caucasus.

CHP'nin İstanbul'daki son seçim zaferleriyle ilgili ABD merkezli son derece saygın bir solcu yayın için bir makale yazmaya başladım da, kendisiyle bir söyleşi için Sinem Dedetaş'a nasıl ulaşabileceğimi bilen bir takipçi var mıdır?

1999: Make my mom take me to a Greek restaurant for my birthday because it makes me incredibly happy.

2025: Get paid to go to an Armenian tavern with a live Greek language music performance.

So jealous.

in the runup to the Ukraine war, US conservatives were jacking themselves off to footage of Russian VDV guys doing hand to hand combat. Then 90% of those guys were wiped out in the first day of the war because it turns out hand to hand combat isn't very important if they shoot your helicopter down

With Hegseth in charge, at least Canadians and Mexicans can begin to feel confident after a while that the US military won't even have the logistics to invade and occupy Michigan, never mind neighbouring states

Well this was a well timed
piece - foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/10/p...

I helped write a piece for the latest Central Asia and South Caucasus Bulletin about the trial of the leaders of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

When you get your Catholic teaching so wrong the pope himself has to issue a correction ☠️

the constitutional crisis is here

It's just so funny to me that he could have had a really nice life - writing for Commonweal, The Lamp, AmCon, maybe becoming the successor of Deneen and Vermule- but instead he's going down in history as Englecuck Dollfuß.

It's called autocratic legalism, lawlessness for the friends of the populist leader, and prosecution of his adversaries.

Wanton destruction

Who are some interesting scholars working on the CHP?

Objectively weird to see Musk hate doing increasingly popular on Twitter. Like watching the system start to break.

The Influence of Austrofascism on JD Vance Where many of the ideas buzzing in his ear come from.

You should.... probably read this.

www.thebulwark.com/p/influence-...

Yes what we learned from the 20s was that inflation results in cool politics, bubbles are good, tariffs are excellent, isolationism works and is chill, and that it's extremely cool when a dumb old right-wing leader relies on fascists with fun and eccentric beliefs about Bronze Age Aryans.

I don't think it's possible in the US for some reason. It's one of the reasons I'm so uniquely unsympathetic to the American right.