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Ulrike Höppner

@andnowhat.bsky.social

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Political theorist, podcaster, mother, remaining hopeful we’ll work this all out. We always did before, why not now #podcast #political #theory #itsonus https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/andnowwhat

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · 11m

Out now! The newest episode of my podcast. The (almost) last part of the #truth cycle - this time focused on #Foucault. Hope you‘ll enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/a...
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And now what? – A Political Theory Podcast

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · 12d

Ok, so Majorie Taylor Greene is a left of the GOP now. Just trying to keep things straight.

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · 22d

I have a little trouble following. Are you saying the description is meant to hide an anti-semitic trope? Because, while I cannot speak for the intention if the author, I might be too culturally distanced to get it.

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · 24d

geht nur bei Iphones und Trabbis

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · 27d

Well, it could give pause. Because 20% of kids still aren‘t helped as they should be. That is a large number. And pausing doesn‘t take away the fact, that 80% of kids ARE helped. I am not saying, the authors of the article took that position. But dismissing anyone who pauses…

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · 28d

The correct answer to most questions is: „I don‘t know.“ And even where we know stuff about the subject matter, we would still be safe saying: „I don‘t know.“ #questions #answers

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Sep 19

🙈 Es ist immer besonders zu verurteilen, wenn jemand getötet wird, weil man nicht mag, was er sagt. Es ist auch immer traurig, wenn einzelne Extremisten (hier christliche), eine ganze Gruppe (hier Christen) aussehen lassen wie Extremisten.

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Sep 18

Finally, someone admits to killing all the birds. Apart from the ones killed by window washers doing their job.😉

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Sep 4

Turns out, I am the kind of person who will tell #anti-social children off in the #playground, in no uncertain terms. And not just when it‘s my own. Nope. I am doing for #mankind.

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is brilliant - on the failed coup that made Hitler. Listen to it!

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The Failed Nazi Coup (Ep 1)

Podcast Episode · Journey Through Time · 20/08/2025 · 48m

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 2

There is a plan!

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 2

That is very true! It will take only days for them to realize that.

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 2

Second that. There’s always a percentage (!) of crime that goes unnoticed, but that %tage is fairly stable (or decreasing if methods of detection improve). This percentage would only increase if we stopped seeing crime and that doesn‘t appear to fit with people seeing more where less is reported.

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 2

What soes that graphic even try to say?

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 2

Nope, actual crime rates are down. There is actually less crime.

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 2

I know, it‘s easy to focus on the audacity of it. But really think of the consequences. Come midterms next year, there will be a campaign where noone really knows what the job numbers really are because the person in charge will be loyal to Trump not the numbers.

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Aug 2

That was Stalin‘s mistake. It is too overblown. Firing the statistician is enough. How would anyone even now what the job numbers really are come next year?

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Jul 30

So, I was really bored waiting for the bus and had Chat GPT do that bad Maths:
Fertility Falls to 1.3 by 2035, stays there. (like Japan)
Population starts shrinking ~2040s due to demographic momentum
By 2100, population might decline to ~5–6 billion. When I was born there was 4 billion….

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Jul 30

To believe it will all somehow add up and work out isn‘t much different drom believing pronatalism would solve the issue. Population collapse, well, that is just bad maths.

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Jul 30

…in the 1990ies and 2050. Yet, that will be a totally new experience. Human population has always grown (apart from a period during the black death in Europe and that was brief period). It has grown exponentially over the last 150 yrs. We need to rethink many foundations of our society and soon!

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Jul 30

5) Final point, pronatalist policies don‘t usually work. The decision to have children is an individual one and remains so. I think it is more likely that the world population wil meander somewhere between 6 and 9 billion people for the next couple of centuries. That is between what it was…

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Jul 30

..are build on a certain idea of growth. That idea is based on the assumption of population growth. So, if poulations stagnate or even slightly descrease, we need a new idea. I am all for it! Also, check this out growthecon.com/fully.html

Fully Grown - Dietrich Vollrath

University of Houston

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Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Jul 30

..or even rising living standards. We never had that before. Also, reviving areas with shrinking poluations (I see a lot of that in East Germany) is really, really hard. Especially because the age pyramid tend to change, many more old people than children is a difficult dynamic… Our societies…

Ulrike Höppner @andnowhat.bsky.social · Jul 30

4) That expensive infrastructure you mention. It isn‘t just less infrastructure, also less toys, everything. This doesnt have to be a bad thing, there is too much stuff in the world anyway. But the way we calculate growth, that would probably result in much less of it, even with the same…