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Scary Mr. Olmec Man

@scarymrolmecman.bsky.social

Sociopolitical malcontent. Chinese lit sometimes. 我的名字是一个问号。
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Such an insult, and considering that the author didn't use ChatGPT to write the novel, he is just specifically denigrating translation
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Genuinely cannot figure out what this means:
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FWIW, the idea that a lot of the double haters will eventually come home is Klain's theory of the election, which is plausible to me but just incredibly risky
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Ganz puts this quite well. If what is necessary to do is to put daylight between the Dems and the GOP/Trump, Biden is making that mission harder.
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The guy at the other end of the phone
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This is the least of the issues with this GOP platform, but I continue to be fascinated by the idiosyncratic capitalization used by MAGA types
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Keep thinking about who the "you" of "your foreign policy" here could possibly mean.
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So you're telling me that UK conservative voters would gladly take the hate and the racism and dump austerity and conservative policies? Wow.
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I love replies like this. I dunno, dude! Go read a newspaper or something! Why are you asking online?
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What, no fourth metaphor stuffed in there?
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Thought of this quote from Steven Hahn's A Nation Under Our Feet, of Prince Lambkin, a freed corporal in the First South Carolina Volunteers
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You can't be called Glen, dude, come on
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The psychotic assumption underlying this Bobo column---and you better believe he believes it in his bones---is that an administrator's career is a matter of life and death.
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WaPo's new market strategy: Supervillain shit
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The thing about Tablet's politics is how wildly out of step they are with the American Jewish community. Like, yeah, I expect the majority of the community has stomach turning opinions on Israel, but nobody's giving thanks for Ted Cruz, man.
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People were so red-ass mad about Harvard saying that black lives matter that they demanded a fucking committee on it with neocon dipshit Noah Feldman on it to make sure it would never happen again
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One of the things I find lowkey fascinating about Rufo is that he does not understand the most basic mechanics of the academy. The next step for a Yale postdoc is not to become a named chair professor at Yale. It's not even like the fifth step.
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God it's so telling that they're trying to make "colonizer" a taboo:
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I forget how often Biden just lies
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Who better to weigh in on Asian-Americans and Affirmative Action than three white dudes
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A great example of Hawley's whole deal is that he is writing this blood-and-soil shit and uses the word "bougie," which will absolutely not register with the average Republican
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Low-key think part of this nonsense is that cops think bikers are social undesirables, period
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Adams is deeply committed to a specific brand of toxic paternalism. Mayor as abusive father.
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The third sentence here is such a good fact.