Tacos and Airplanes
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Tacos and Airplanes
@blob_watcher
PhD in Tricknology from Hustlers University
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    @blob_watcher
    Aug 15, 2025
    Fun fact: the academic consensus is that Japanese in the 1890s basically read about *British* chivalry values from Victorian era fanfic stories about knights, and decided to translate that social paradigm into Japanese and then artificially retconned their history off of it.
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    MS1988🟥🛰️🌐
    @Himedanshi2199
    Aug 14, 2025
    Replying to @morris_que14
    also bushido is a myth and half of those guys were conscripts who didnt want to be there and and only did banzai charges cause theyd get shot if they didnt
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    @blob_watcher
    Oct 16, 2025
    As a child of the post-9/11 and Financial Crisis era, it's crazy to think that UK GDPpc > US GDPpc in 2007 (partially due to an overvalued GBP, but still). London was plum posting, highly sought after for new US finance grads. Britain was seen as cool, not dysfunctional.
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    Tacos and Airplanes
    @blob_watcher
    Oct 14, 2025
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    @blob_watcher
    Oct 23, 2025
    The Economist this week on how China started preparing early for Trump's regularly scheduled chimp outs over trade with Alcoholics Anonymous tier honesty and self-critique. As the US's original target, it had a seven year head start over everyone else.
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    @blob_watcher
    Feb 27, 2025
    Ukraine
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    🏳️‍🌈Mar G-O 🌐🇺🇦
    @MariGO2thepolls
    Feb 27, 2025
    Anarchists have Catalonia, racists have Rhodesia, what failed state do libs have?
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    @blob_watcher
    Sep 24, 2025
    Hong Kongers have a Hitler/Hirohito race superiority complex vs mainlanders and incorrectly believed that the average white British person sees them as an honorary white. They obviously miscalculated and now are suffering the (hilarious) consequences. Just Bong Empire things.
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    @blob_watcher
    Sep 11, 2025
    Canadians after hearing this:
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    Shashank Mattoo
    @MattooShashank
    Sep 11, 2025
    "China used electromagnetic weapons to literally melt Indian soldiers," claims US Senator Bill Hagerty in a bizarre statement
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    @blob_watcher
    Oct 14, 2022
    I've never been more convinced of the inevitability of war between the US and China as I am now. Not just based on public info, but private info from friends working in/adjacent to DC. DC is in a foul, belligerent mood right now. Downright scary stuff.
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    @blob_watcher
    Sep 15, 2025
    Netanyahu is part of the uber-realist wing (in the Mearsheimer sense) of Israel, and coldly recognizes that the Rise of China™ + relative decline of Anglos means that Israel's free hand will likely end in the next few decades. Hence going all-in on Greater Israel right now.
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    נדב איל Nadav Eyal
    @Nadav_Eyal
    Sep 15, 2025
    Breaking: Netanyahu says Israel would have to be “Athens and a super Sparta,” warning the country is in a kind of “isolation” and will need to “have autarkic features,” specifically in the military industry. Very harsh reactions across the political spectrum; the opposition
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    @blob_watcher
    Jan 27, 2025
    Let’s check in and see how OpenAI and their employees are taking the news
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    @blob_watcher
    Feb 28, 2025
    This went viral and came on to my feed so I did some investigating. Every single Japanese language reply to this says that this is false and that a white guy is basically trying to project Western style race hate on to Asians. Just another day on the racewar machine that is X
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    9mmSMG
    @9mmsmg
    Feb 25, 2025
    I have Japanese and Korean friends separately. My Japanese friends do not look at Koreans as humans. My Korean friends feel the same about the Japanese. They find common ground in rice and both hating the Chinese and "jungle Asians." Asian on Asian racism is wild to watch.
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    @blob_watcher
    Nov 9, 2025
    A decade ago I used to think allegations that Americans have acquired Qing dynasty tier ignorance and chauvinism was just characteristic Chinese nationalist blathering and ignorance about the US. My apologies. They were right more than even they knew.
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    Tacos and Airplanes
    @blob_watcher
    Jan 22, 2022
    Big news: China about to invade Ukraine.
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    Tacos and Airplanes
    @blob_watcher
    Sep 6, 2025
    Kenneth Pomeranz’s book arguing that the Great Divergence between the West and China only began around the 1700s/early 1800s has been such a damaging thesis (rectified by subsequent lit). In reality, it started in the 1500s because Western Europe didn’t suffer from steppe nomads
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    Sergey Radchenko
    @DrRadchenko
    Sep 6, 2025
    Merkel recounts her meetings with Xi.
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