Elaborate headgear ✅
Concentration of power ✅
Competing viziers✅
Succession crisis✅
Piracy schemes in its southern sea✅
Elaborate palaces ✅
Slavic wives ✅

And they say globalism failed

listen to me. listen to me right now. if you don't know what this tweet means, just close your device. don't look anything up. go for a walk. return in a week. if you don't listen to me, your life will be ruined and i can't be held accountable

There are people in this story who are victims and its not the three principles involved in it

Democrats gaining the House back (and possibly the Senate) is most useful for this specific reason. There has to be weekly publicizing of sensational hearings and leaks to the press

I do a good deal of my IT job over the phone an my emails are very curt for a reason

Godard’s Alphaville is not a book, but if you have any patience for French philosophizing, it is what I always think of as a canonical, non-literary, early cyberpunk work