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Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot

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oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

09.03.2026 01:43 — 👍 796    🔁 147    💬 16    📌 6

They like Trump and want to help him rule us a king, so they help downplay scandals that would've merited banner headlines for weeks under any other president

09.03.2026 01:30 — 👍 654    🔁 133    💬 7    📌 3

"Who was president during the whole fucking pandemic year" is mysterious to the public and the reason is because they're stupid, and conditioned and expectant for Democrats to save everything and thus are blamed for everything, no matter who did what and when

08.03.2026 14:13 — 👍 362    🔁 41    💬 5    📌 2

The reason Biden caught the fallout over the economic recovery, which was EXCELLENT unlike what everyone on this fucking website thinks and will get to learn over and over again in the next four years or so, is that wreckers come on here and say stupid shit like this

08.03.2026 14:11 — 👍 354    🔁 34    💬 3    📌 1

The reason Biden shares Trump's shame in mishandling the pandemic is Murk's law, no more, no less

08.03.2026 14:08 — 👍 281    🔁 34    💬 6    📌 3

great book!

09.03.2026 05:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

oh yeah, he's a flaming shitbag.

09.03.2026 05:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

see also The Sparrow (1996)

09.03.2026 05:44 — 👍 39    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

this is true and I sincerely believe that there are Jesuits out there who would suck every ape's dick to save one soul.

09.03.2026 05:43 — 👍 110    🔁 6    💬 8    📌 0

one thing the U.S. and Iran share is a nepobaby problem

09.03.2026 05:42 — 👍 164    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 0

you know this is going to be a banger when he drops "having in a manner of speaking been a slave" in the first line (he was a POW of the Japanese for four years)

09.03.2026 03:40 — 👍 147    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Second-campist American leftists are insanely gullible. Completely unable to see AI slop.

They're the mirror image of gullible MAGA imperialists.

I still see people sharing that obvious fake "US bombed F4 drawings" pic, where the planes are bigger than the buildings. Insane.

08.03.2026 22:27 — 👍 260    🔁 48    💬 10    📌 9

I'm so sorry.

09.03.2026 01:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

oh I saw it many times as a child!

09.03.2026 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eva, her sister, not Zsa Zsa.

09.03.2026 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

also the three Gabor sisters (Eva, Zsa Zsa, and Magda, Eva voices Miss Bianca, had an impressive total of 20 marriages between them)

09.03.2026 01:01 — 👍 86    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

between that and Duck Tales Disney has a solid earworm hold on my childhood

09.03.2026 00:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

oh doh, mentally confused him with his brother David (a very different kind of writer)

09.03.2026 00:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

the implied geopolitics of Mousedom are very confusing, since Latvia apparently maintains a separate seat in 1977 but Africa has a single representative.

09.03.2026 00:54 — 👍 176    🔁 2    💬 8    📌 3

watching Disney's "The Rescuers," set in an adorably childish fantasy universe in which the United Nations actually does something.

09.03.2026 00:54 — 👍 334    🔁 24    💬 13    📌 3

This tweet is a precis of the themes of Shusaku Endo's Silence

09.03.2026 00:41 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

a pleasant 73 in DC!

09.03.2026 00:52 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

19.02.2026 01:20 — 👍 630    🔁 153    💬 2    📌 1

did not realize that Miyazaki, the Dark Souls designer, is a huge Fighting Fantasy nerd but it makes perfect sense and you can see a bunch of the influences.

09.03.2026 00:07 — 👍 46    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

hidetaka miyazaki: some parts of the game will be jumping sections
designers: wow! so there'll be a robust jumping mechanism?
hm: you sweet summer children.

09.03.2026 00:04 — 👍 82    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 0

DA very consistent on this - white is not the assumed default.

08.03.2026 23:43 — 👍 68    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a neat little thing about Rivers of London is that the color of white people's skin gets noted.

08.03.2026 23:42 — 👍 111    🔁 6    💬 8    📌 0

much like bsky if you play well enough you unlock a more powerful timeline

08.03.2026 23:40 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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