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and another helpful reminder,

artappraiser — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:15:17 +0000

In reply to that toon's okay, but I still

and another helpful reminder, how the role play thing can always get worse:

Every now and again I remember that the King of Thailand made his dog Fufu an Air Chief Marshal of the Thai Air Force pic.twitter.com/Rlh8HeHw3r
— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) January 14, 2019

A helpful reminder of how

artappraiser — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:13:43 +0000

In reply to Good ones, Driftglass had

A helpful reminder of how there's really no there there, all is an act and "stories":

Reminder in 1999 Trump told Tim Russert this of Buchanan: "He's a Hitler lover. I guess he's an anti-Semite. He doesn't like the blacks, he doesn't like the gays. It's just incredible that anybody could embrace this guy/I just can't imagine that anybody can take him seriously" https://t.co/tKCdf865dS
— Chris Donovan (@chrisdonovan) January 14, 2019

Apologies to NCD for any

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 04:56:53 +0000

In reply to And yet I hope that like Mark

Apologies to NCD for any hijacking, but I just gotta go there being a longtime fan of 19th-C cultural studies. There is true irony in the whole Twain racism thing about simplistically interpreting cultural history by current standards. In context of his own time, Twain was remarkably anti-racist as regards southern American blacks, while at the same time it is less known that he was xenophobically racist about the Ottoman Turks and other eastern cultures, a thoroughly-pro-western-civilization kind of guy. See here and here for examples.The evidence is mostly in "Innocents Abroad" but it's in some speeches, too. Now in that context, compare how he treated American blacks in his work! Totally different picture! They are basically his equals, with human foibles, for sure, but not like "dirty Turkish people" etc.

I was envisioning just from

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 04:40:26 +0000

In reply to I ate at the Mikado in Vegas.

I was envisioning just from your two simple sentences, sounds like: FUN!

I ate at the Mikado in Vegas.

NCD — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 04:23:54 +0000

In reply to A hah, you so funny. But let

I ate at the Mikado in Vegas. Lots of Japanese in the place!

And yet I hope that like Mark

ocean-kat — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 03:52:10 +0000

In reply to A hah, you so funny. But let

And yet I hope that like Mark Twain one hundred years from now people will see my work and think, Wow, that is actually pretty racist.

A hah, you so funny. But let

artappraiser — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 03:30:51 +0000

In reply to In 1879 when the Pirates of

A hah, you so funny. But let's get real: Gilbert & Sullivan not only racist but "transphobic", too! It's not enough to just skewer the upper classes, you gotta do more.Dickens, Shakespeare...banish em all, bourgeois.

In 1879 when the Pirates of

NCD — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 02:19:12 +0000

In reply to Usually I don't like rap but

In 1879 when the Pirates of Penzance was written, cultural appropriation of rap, jazz or even punk was the norm, I blame the French and the EU for what went on then.

Wow. I'm hoping for some

ocean-kat — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 23:57:39 +0000

In reply to oceankat: off-thread (or

Wow. I'm hoping for some really good things from her. I'm amazed that she won especially considering Trump won Arizona by almost 4 points. And Sinema is not some center right democrat that you'd expect from this conservative state. She's clearly to the left.

Consider how many people who voted republican for years and who voted for Trump must have flipped for her to win. I'm not sure what that means going forward, one off or the beginning of a trend, but it's a big deal for me. I thought I'd spend all my time in Arizona ruled by republicans just like I spent 10 years in Florida with republicans in charge. It's a glimmer of hope for me.

oceankat: off-thread (or

artappraiser — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 23:23:26 +0000

In reply to Usually I don't like rap but

ocean-kat: off-thread (or maybe not if it's about shifting cultural realities); oy, you've got quite some new Senator there:

You got to love @SenatorSinema at her swearing in just now in the Senate chambers. pic.twitter.com/BA7eeS2Rac
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) January 3, 2019