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Bro Dad posted:iirc the book ends with toranaga giving an epic oceans eleven reveal about how he's been playing everybody from the start and now the gaijin will spend his life building ships for him yeah i didn't have the word "orientalist" when i read it in high school, but that's what it is. the crafty asian who defers to everyone but it's all a sham and his every thought is about how to achieve superasianity. i was very surprised to hear anyone was adapting it, and even more surprised to hear it turned out okay.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/she-still-carries-an-aura-of-spectacular-failure-why-hasnt-liz-truss-gone-away
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Jose posted:the guy shogun is based on is interesting imo lol that when he eventually saw his countrymen he was mostly just disgusted.
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 23:32 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:was a while since i read it, but i thought the book was about some english dude who ended up in japan and thought he was hot poo poo but the japanese guys basically figured him out immediately and humored the uncultured idiot because he might be useful some day well the actual guy was more like a nuclear scientist.
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Jose posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/she-still-carries-an-aura-of-spectacular-failure-why-hasnt-liz-truss-gone-away lol
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Doc Hawkins posted:yeah i didn't have the word "orientalist" when i read it in high school, but that's what it is. the crafty asian who defers to everyone but it's all a sham and his every thought is about how to achieve superasianity. it's particularly weird because it already got adapted decades ago i got the dvds for the 1980 version from a yardsale or something at some point it wasn't low rent either, toranaga was toshiro mifune ffs!
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 03:30 |
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when has something already existing ever stopped hollywood lol
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 04:38 |
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Jesse Ventura posted:was this in the Cincinnati area or did this exact thing happen more than once? lol yeah it was - wouldn’t be surprised though if it was such a smash hit they rolled it out to multiple schools since then
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 07:21 |
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https://twitter.com/Ken_Stonger/status/1774115556867666420?t=sC0dMhdoAOjDrafIbzDSsA&s=19
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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/Ken_Stonger/status/1774115556867666420?t=sC0dMhdoAOjDrafIbzDSsA&s=19 wait they are communist???
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Vomik posted:when I was in high school the pd put an undercover cop as a student in our school - and she dated a guy for 3 months before they arrested him. I remember thinking it was weird for a 24/25 yo woman, pretending to be 17 and loving a teenager because he is some low level dealer why do you hate our brave police officers
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# ? Mar 31, 2024 23:27 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah like the whole Meiji Restoration and what followed I'm pretty sure was specifically Japan seeing what European powers were doing to China, going 'oh poo poo, they're clearly drooling at the thought of doing that to us' and playing imperial catch-up. Not that they didn't have experience with that before with Hideyoshi invading Korea. (I think that's the one anyway.) if you really wanted to be an obnoxious pedant you could argue that shogun whitewashes japanese imperialism in favor of orientalist fetishization by making hideyoshi seem like a wise defeated ruler whose main problem was that the japanese are naturally warlike and not that he deliberately aggravated these tendencies to seize power such that they pretty much had to at least try and invade korea because of how psychotically militaristic the culture had become i dont hold this against shogun because (a) its a stupid argument (b) its not something any of the white perspective characters would have noticed or cared about (c) if they had noticed or cared about it their reaction would have been awww hell yeah this idea rules we should use it to defeat the papacy once and for all
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Jose posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/she-still-carries-an-aura-of-spectacular-failure-why-hasnt-liz-truss-gone-away this literally made me lol. "corbyn is convinced that his policies are popular, because they poll extremely well, the loving idiot, the absolute moron"
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 00:54 |
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Some Guy TT posted:if you really wanted to be an obnoxious pedant you could argue that shogun whitewashes japanese imperialism in favor of orientalist fetishization by making hideyoshi seem like a wise defeated ruler whose main problem was that the japanese are naturally warlike and not that he deliberately aggravated these tendencies to seize power such that they pretty much had to at least try and invade korea because of how psychotically militaristic the culture had become I mean would that even be meaningfully different from the european cultures at all lol
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 12:21 |
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World War Mammories posted:this literally made me lol. "corbyn is convinced that his policies are popular, because they poll extremely well, the loving idiot, the absolute moron" They are both convinced of their beliefs. Corbyn thinks the sky is blue, which is correct. Liz Truss thinks it's brown like dog poo poo. They are virtually the same person.
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 14:04 |
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today's Connections made me yell out the second I saw it
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Goa Tse-tung posted:today's Connections made me yell out the second I saw it ?
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Goa Tse-tung posted:today's Connections made me yell out the second I saw it Sheep... Anyway, have a sports reporter you've probably never heard of posting a KYS (or presidential health advice) on x.com: https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1774593560525902323
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 16:17 |
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that jacobin writer is having a hell of a week https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1774781597310480890
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 17:08 |
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are these serious unironic takes i honestly cant tell
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 17:17 |
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The Palestine/Israel episode of Curb was pretty both-sides, but I might be be misremembering.
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# ? Apr 1, 2024 19:06 |
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That's a nice bumper crop of opinions today, sub-Saharan Africa could learn some lessons.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:39 |
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Precambrian Video Games posted:
You get a "selling organs should be legal" column about once a year, and I want to know who is behind it because they are probably some of the most evil fucks around.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:53 |
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PostNouveau posted:You get a "selling organs should be legal" column about once a year, and I want to know who is behind it because they are probably some of the most evil fucks around. laffo
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PostNouveau posted:You get a "selling organs should be legal" column about once a year, and I want to know who is behind it because they are probably some of the most evil fucks around. this got published last week and wouldn't you believe the freaks endorsing it want economically inactive people to die
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 17:57 |
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The Oldest Man posted:he was the nytimes climate blogger until he got sacked in 2013 Oh, I don't care about the author. I want to know who is paying the author to write this. What think tank represents an industry that is salivating at the idea of an organ market?
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 18:13 |
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Precambrian Video Games posted:
how good/bad is the t. bacon one
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 18:15 |
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Megamissen posted:how good/bad is the t. bacon one It's mostly critical of the US and Israel for having no interest in stopping settlements or allowing a fair two-state solution, so better than the headline suggests but without really making a case for alternatives.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 18:21 |
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PostNouveau posted:Oh, I don't care about the author. I want to know who is paying the author to write this. What think tank represents an industry that is salivating at the idea of an organ market? that's just the nytimes acting in the best interests of the public to bring new products to the marketplace of ideas
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 18:51 |
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Jose posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/she-still-carries-an-aura-of-spectacular-failure-why-hasnt-liz-truss-gone-away lmao
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 19:00 |
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Precambrian Video Games posted:
I don't understand how anyone can see this on the front page of a website and think "yes I'd like to pay money regularly for the privilege of reading this"
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 19:02 |
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Honky Mao posted:I don't understand how anyone can see this on the front page of a website and think "yes I'd like to pay money regularly for the privilege of reading this" It wouldn't be a marketplace of ideas if you weren't selling them
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 19:08 |
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Precambrian Video Games posted:
lol wolfers quote:Economists disagree on Biden’s polling. Even when they’re in love. even his "wife" thinks he is a dumbass
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 22:23 |
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I hate when writers veer into a 300 word discussion of their source's personal life.
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 22:36 |
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i disagree i think it added a lot to the story the note about how these economists arent actually married because like any sensible person they view the institution entirely through tax benefits
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 23:27 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol wolfers Monica Gandhi:Dying of Covid::Justin Wolfers:Starving to death
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# ? Apr 2, 2024 23:45 |
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Monica Gandhi man that's a blast from the past. She never never suffered any reprecussions for her bullshit did she.
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 00:05 |
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weirdly people these days are marrying because they like hanging out together, and not because the economic calculus has determined that their marriage will secure them the most optimal tax strategies and school districts
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# ? Apr 3, 2024 00:06 |
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I don’t know if you’re joking about married-only school districts and I’m OK with that
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still the best thing i've posted itt
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