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Over the past month, I’ve been surprised (pleasantly?) at how brittle social media Chinese nationalism is in the face of still moderate socioeconomic upheaval. If my Weibo feed (which includes most of the major nationalist public intellectuals) is any indication, it’s been…
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Of course it's not really about "invaders"...the Buffalo killer attacked Black people, whose ancestors have been here at least as long as his own, probably longer.
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Killing the filibuster is MAGA: Make America Governable Again.
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If you're at a casino, the odds are against you whether you're playing blackjack or the slot machines but there's still a big difference.
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Example of why I hate headlines that tell me what I think — my initial read of this was that it purported to overturn the findings of the 2019 paper, "Capitalists in the 21st Century."
But it's actually a writeup of that paper — the rich are exactly who *I* thought!
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MLK III writes a banger op-ed:
"The less housing stock we have, the more expensive it is. So if we want a radically fairer housing market, we have to literally build it."
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China has to face the fact that their post-Deng method for selecting leaders got lucky twice in a row and then hit the inevitable failure mode.
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This is a good point. Jiang and Hu were both picked by Deng. It's starting to look more like Deng was the Great Man of modern China, meaning Xi might represent a reversion to the mean of a flawed system.
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Dingdingding
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One measure of how badly Xi has failed is the change in Taiwan: in the 10 years I've lived here it's gone from "China is okay we just want to do business", to "We don't want a war but no one wants to be Chinese, what a terrible place to live".
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