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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 18h

For example, Foxconn founder Terry Gou came in second in the 2019 KMT presidential primary.

[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 18h

I think a lot of that is even true of Weather Report’s live performances, where Wayne Shorter actually has something to do.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 19h

Only one of those got a Jojo reference, though. /jk Also, I’d say some of Chick Corea’s work is an exception to this, but a lot of his 70s work is more straight jazz with a fusion coat of paint.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It’s far from the worst thing he’s done, but by God it is a perfect metaphor for all his sins.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This thread is Frank Zamboni erasure, I tell ya!

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Frank Zamboni - Wikipedia

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The sad bit is that they might have even been able to do the racism if they had the discipline to focus on one specific group to hate, rather than try to please every passing prejudice they see on Twitter.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Like, imagine a version of Curtis Sliwa that wasn’t cursed to turn into dust if he stayed more than a month outside of NYC.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The PA, the ultimate platonic ideal of “do nothing and cry“.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

More broadly, each far-right still operates in an at least somewhat different strategic and domestic context; PiS may be an bunch of anti-Ukrainian bigots, but I think they’d still rather strengthen the EU/NATO than Russia.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As far as I can tell, even when he‘s TACOing it still leaves us with effective tariff rates a far bit higher than in 2024; it’s just that sometimes he’s talking to people not named Peter Navarro.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was gonna say, 躺平 was already a thing at the very beginning of Covid, and the memes have only gotten darker from there.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

America trying to prop up the Nationalists like it’s the 1950s again? I blame that goddamn “Chang [sic]” sword Rubio has; “Unleash Chiang”, except it’s fucking Chiang Wan-an.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fortunately, we’ve still got a direct line to yell at the Feds about it until Dec. 9 (the specific section in question is under “Proposed Revisions to § 170.39—Threshold of Regulation (TOR) for Substances Used in Food or as a Food Contact Substance”):

regulations.gov

Regulations.gov

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If anyone wants to yell at the Feds about it, the proposed rule is still open for comment here (specifically the section titled: “Proposed Revisions to § 170.39—Threshold of Regulation (TOR) for Substances Used in Food or as a Food Contact Substance”):

regulations.gov

Regulations.gov

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hell, I remember reading circa late-2000s/early-2010s about how Somalia was skipping the landline phase and going straight into mass cellphones.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A part of me is curious if these types also get annoyed if we make Trump comparisons to, say, MBS or El-Sisi, or is it only “anti-American/EU” illiberal states we’re not allowed to make comparisons to?

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The funny bit is that the character her PFP is portraying actually has the surname “Kuo”.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Kōdōha, who mostly succeed in catapulting their hated rivals into power.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think the big thing is that Trump II is probably the best chance we’ve got to associate the *entirety* of Republican ideology with general incompetence/corruption in the minds of at least some median voters.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

More specifically, King Cotton and its kin lacked enough presence to counter-balance all the Irish and German Catholics and Lutherans coming in.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, pretty much every Southern classmate/coworker I’ve had considers STL more Midwest than Southern.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A big thing is that St. Charles is where the hardcore white flighters fled to, while those of us in STL County still very much consider ourselves and the city as part of a (very awkward) whole. (And St. Charles still has enough development/STL connections that Trump still got under 58% in 2024.)

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a Taiwanese-American, strong agree. (Though I imagine a lot of people whose brains are stuck in 1949 are going to be surprised when Taiwan tries to completely sit this one out.)

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The main exception are the Animation Obsessive people, but their actual articles also often go in depth into how Soviet animators were suppressed by the authorities or were themselves influenced by art from outside the USSR.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Granted, “center-right goes fast-curious” is basically “dog sniffs ass” level of surprising.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And if you do know the “twist”, it runs into the issue of “if I’m already familiar with Tom Lehrer’s quip about German cabaret and Hitler, Disco Elysium being a commie game funded by capitalists, etc, what else do I get out of it that’s worth giving money that’ll end up in the Ellisons’ pockets?”

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh no, this was a review that zeroed in specifically on the “satire on satire“ portion but found it poorly executed and undercut by the film still seemingly wanting the viewer to be impressed by the whole production.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I will say that the harshest review I’ve seen was from a Brit that basically summed it up as “as toothless and pointless as the shit it’s trying to satirize”.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, my mom and I used to have to regularly retranslate brochures/etc. for our local Taiwanese-American association because they’d all look like this before we got to them.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

According to the reporting, it’s primarily going to people making 400% of the FPL (so about $63,840 for one person and $132,000 for a family of four).

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And on the flip side, good luck getting any Chinese speaker to adopt 啊美義喀 rather than 美国/美國.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And bizarrely, that last bit may be how America manages to somehow find a way out before most of our peers.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Only *two* flags? We’re gonna have a bazillion wacky hybrid flags for varying occasions: a Star of David on the Palestinian flag, Arabic calligraphy on the Israeli flag, both flags in each other’s colors, etc.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was gonna say, the man clearly has a brand image to maintain across realms!

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, the *one* possible bad case scenario would be if it turns out the “muh Ukraine bioweapons!” bullshit was in fact classic Russian projection. But thus far it doesn’t look like even Putin is that self-destructively paranoid.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To paraphrase a common remark, the WSJ newsroom exists to give the American elite a reality check, but the WSJ opinion section exists to sooth their egos afterwards.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Funny thing is that apparently Lula genuinely did try to let the next generation take over, only for his party to hit the “bring Lula back” panic button because his 2000s tenure made him the only member popular enough to even stand a chance against Bolsanaro.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing to remember is that PT never actually once had a majority in Parliament, with all of its coalitions always needing to include center-right parties, which is to say that even when Lula was getting 80% approval ratings, he was always repping a country much more right-wing than himself.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Presidentialism means that Trump will probably eat the blame anyways, the same way voters gave Biden no mulligans for having a Republican-controlled House in 23-24.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Depending on how hard Petah Hungarian ends up going, the 2030 Hungarian parliamentary elections might end up telling us if the problem is that throwing the bums in jail doesn’t work, or if it’s more that it only works if you jail *all* the bums *and * annihilate their resource base.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Taiwan, a developed US-aligned democracy where the political spectrum is nonetheless based on how blue/green you are on one specific issue rather than which spatial direction the bulk of your beliefs fall into.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

and I think that even if we defeat authoritarian ethnonationalism for good, it’d just be replaced with, I dunno, a movement to deport all under-30 sociology majors and replace taxes with (inter-faith) prayer.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unfortunately, there will *always* be a large subset of voters attracted to “beggar thy literal neighbor” and/or “no take, only throw” promises. Combine that with inherent human stupidity (as a grocery worker, I’d know),

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The weird bit is that pretty much every corruption scandal with a Lula connection this cycle has an even stronger Bolsanaro one.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And lost by like a collective 1% all her previous attempts combined!

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At the end of the day, you don’t *have to* fire on targets 24/7; just enough to make sure nobody gets *too* comfortable.

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[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Even a lot of the more astute Russian nationalists gripe about their country being a technological/industrial laggard!

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