Analysis of both district-level and aggregate time-series data from postwar House elections supports the thesis that strategic political elites play a pivotal role in translating national conditions into election results and therefore in holding members of Congress collectively accountable for the government's performance. More high-quality candidates run when prospects appear to favor their party; they also win significantly more votes and victories than other candidates in equivalent circumstances. Thus, strategic career decisions both reflect and enhance national partisan tides. The electoral importance of strategic politicians has grown over time in tandem with the trend toward candidate-centered electoral politics. This has rendered the effects of national forces less automatic, more contingent, thus threatening the capacity of elections to enforce some degree of collective responsibility.
An abstract strategy game is a strategy game in which the theme is not important to the experience of playing.Many of the world's classic board games, including chess, Go, checkers and draughts, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess), Reversi (marketed as "Othello"), nine men's morris, and most mancala variants, fit into this category.As J. Mark Thompson wrote in his article "Defining the Abstract", play is sometimes said to resemble a series of puzzles the players pose to each other:1
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1. To descend into a feeling of abject madness or rage, often tantamount to having a nervous breakdown.
2. To be fiending hard for a substance, experience, or thing, to the point where it can cause a degree of minor insanity.
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The term “abstract” is a direct reference to the web-series “The Amazing Digital Circus”, where abstraction refers to the phenomena of losing one’s mind and bodily integrity due to total and complete insanity. It is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the mental strain required to cause abstraction, and is mostly used somewhat hyperbolically within conversation. The term was first used around early November 2023 among a digital circus fan who was fiending for a cigarette, and the humor in it ended up cementing it within the fandom’s lexicon, mostly due to its comedic and referential value between fans.
1. To descend into a feeling of abject madness or rage, often tantamount to having a nervous breakdown.
2. To be fiending hard for a substance, experience, or thing, to the point where it can cause a degree of minor insanity.
Origin:
The term “abstract” is a direct reference to the web-series “The Amazing Digital Circus”, where abstraction refers to the phenomena of losing one’s mind and bodily integrity due to total and complete insanity. It is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the mental strain required to cause abstraction, and is mostly used somewhat hyperbolically within conversation. The term was first used around early November 2023 among a digital circus fan who was fiending for a cigarette, and the humor in it ended up cementing it within the fandom’s lexicon, mostly due to its comedic and referential value between fans.
“Shut up before I abstract on your ass, you goon.”
“Can anyone spot me a cigarette? I have been abstracting for a smoke break all day.”
“I stg, I am about to abstract with the way that y’all be acting sometimes…”
“Can anyone spot me a cigarette? I have been abstracting for a smoke break all day.”
“I stg, I am about to abstract with the way that y’all be acting sometimes…”
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1. To descend into a feeling of abject madness or rage, often tantamount to having a nervous breakdown.
2. To be fiending hard for a substance, experience, or thing, to the point where it can cause a degree of minor insanity.
Origin:
The term “abstract” is a direct reference to the web-series “The Amazing Digital Circus”, where abstraction refers to the phenomena of losing one’s mind and bodily integrity due to total and complete insanity. It is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the mental strain required to cause abstraction, and is mostly used somewhat hyperbolically within conversation. The term was first used around early November 2023 among a digital circus fan who was fiending for a cigarette, and the humor in it ended up cementing it within the fandom’s lexicon, mostly due to its comedic and referential value between fans.
Alternate Forms: Abstracted (past tense)
Abstraction (noun form)
Abstracting (present tense)
1. To descend into a feeling of abject madness or rage, often tantamount to having a nervous breakdown.
2. To be fiending hard for a substance, experience, or thing, to the point where it can cause a degree of minor insanity.
Origin:
The term “abstract” is a direct reference to the web-series “The Amazing Digital Circus”, where abstraction refers to the phenomena of losing one’s mind and bodily integrity due to total and complete insanity. It is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the mental strain required to cause abstraction, and is mostly used somewhat hyperbolically within conversation. The term was first used around early November 2023 among a digital circus fan who was fiending for a cigarette, and the humor in it ended up cementing it within the fandom’s lexicon, mostly due to its comedic and referential value between fans.
Alternate Forms: Abstracted (past tense)
Abstraction (noun form)
Abstracting (present tense)
“Shut up before I abstract on your ass, you goon.”
“Can anyone spot me a cigarette? I have been abstracting for a smoke break all day.”
“I stg, I am about to abstract with the way that y’all be acting sometimes…”
“Can anyone spot me a cigarette? I have been abstracting for a smoke break all day.”
“I stg, I am about to abstract with the way that y’all be acting sometimes…”
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an “artistic” movement reflective of post-WWII America’s industrial dominance. Just as GM was able to slap together shitty cars & dump them on the “free” world, American "artists" figured they could slap any shit they wanted onto a canvas & declare it artistically "relevant". As the philosopher P.T. Barnum observed, a sucker’s born every minute, & so the shit sold.
A major reason these artists sucked was they couldn’t stay inside the lines. They side-stepped this seeming career-killer by ignoring the lines & marketing themselves as rebellious, anarchic, idiosyncratic & nihilistic which explains A LOT about why the “art” looks the way it does… when you set out to paint shit, you end up with art that looks like shit.
Eventually the art world caught on to the scam, forcing the “artistes” to rebrand themselves as trailblazers in other bogus schools like “Post-painterly Abstraction”, “Color Field Painting”, “Lyrical Abstraction”, “Action Painting”, “Minimal Art”, “Post-minimalism”, & eventually some crap labeled "Neo-expressionism", a style so insignificant it barely escaped the late-70s. Given the paucity of talent in the artists who inspired them (e.g., Amedeo Modigliani, Max Jacob) it’s no wonder their works have the aesthetic appeal of a dog’s breakfast. Truth be told, most were frustrated poseurs who couldn't handle composition & perspective, & burned out on cocaine in the 70s to escape their anger at just missing the free-love movement of the 60s.
an “artistic” movement reflective of post-WWII America’s industrial dominance. Just as GM was able to slap together shitty cars & dump them on the “free” world, American "artists" figured they could slap any shit they wanted onto a canvas & declare it artistically "relevant". As the philosopher P.T. Barnum observed, a sucker’s born every minute, & so the shit sold.
A major reason these artists sucked was they couldn’t stay inside the lines. They side-stepped this seeming career-killer by ignoring the lines & marketing themselves as rebellious, anarchic, idiosyncratic & nihilistic which explains A LOT about why the “art” looks the way it does… when you set out to paint shit, you end up with art that looks like shit.
Eventually the art world caught on to the scam, forcing the “artistes” to rebrand themselves as trailblazers in other bogus schools like “Post-painterly Abstraction”, “Color Field Painting”, “Lyrical Abstraction”, “Action Painting”, “Minimal Art”, “Post-minimalism”, & eventually some crap labeled "Neo-expressionism", a style so insignificant it barely escaped the late-70s. Given the paucity of talent in the artists who inspired them (e.g., Amedeo Modigliani, Max Jacob) it’s no wonder their works have the aesthetic appeal of a dog’s breakfast. Truth be told, most were frustrated poseurs who couldn't handle composition & perspective, & burned out on cocaine in the 70s to escape their anger at just missing the free-love movement of the 60s.
Chip: Hey, Dale. I didn’t know Hunter S. Thompson did Abstract Expressionism painting… hope you didn’t spend much on that piece of crap you hung in the foyer.
Dale: I’ll have you know that’s a Michael Petroni… one of Neo-expressionism’s finest artistes!
Chip: If that’s the good stuff, save me from the rest of it. And hang that monstrosity somewhere else, like the attic.
Dale: I’ll have you know that’s a Michael Petroni… one of Neo-expressionism’s finest artistes!
Chip: If that’s the good stuff, save me from the rest of it. And hang that monstrosity somewhere else, like the attic.
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