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It worries me how many people appear to be genuinely adopting these ideas about criticizing a genocide that a government is committing being an attack on them personally. As I understood it the point was to be a smokescreen for Israeli policy, but it feels like an increasing number of these folks will be permanently broken by this, big time brainworms.

I was gonna say that's not how I remember him looking.

I especially appreciate how checked out he appears.

I cannot stress this enough, you could buy yourself a plot of land and put a prefab on it and have money leftover to furnish the thing with the amount of money these people are spending on their meme truck. A permanent country vacation spot.

And then what? This fella thinks he's gonna successfully sue a billionaire? In the US?

I'm super excited for Hoshoryu and Kotozakura, they both seem like they obviously have Yokozuna in their future and it's great to see the consistency out of both of them. I've grown a soft spot for Keisho over the last year so I'm glad he's holding on. Now that there's all this competition at the top it's easy to overlook him but he did all of us a real service being a consistent quality Ozeki when there were basically none around.

I was happy for Takerufuji, and I'm glad we're seeing all this new talent rising, but I really hope some of the guys at the top get their shot at the rope soon, which is gonna mean these one-off Maegashira yusho have to stop, at least for a while.

My usual faves were Endo and Kotoeko, who both appear to be on their way out. Guess I'll need new faves.

Depending on when you're there you could go watch live sumo! The next tournament will be in the Kokugikan in Toyko starting on the 12th. It's pretty fun to watch and in the long form you get to see a lot of cool ritual practice and brightly colored traditional clothing and stuff.

Pretty fun time to watch too, we're seeing a real changing of the guard, Lotta new faces rising in the ranks and ousting longstanding top rankers.

Hakkiyoi!

Yeah I worry about this. It's already hard to talk about this stuff, now fascists will be more likely to assume I'm in league with them if I express my disapproval of this stuff.

So far I've found that trading is balanced in such a way that you can't just set up an industry to fund everything, you need to be shifting through different products to avoid flooding the market, you reach a point where you literally can't export a good because there is no demand for it.

I'm pretty sure the US can't survive social security ending. Everyone here hates everyone else as it is, it's literally the only carrot left.

It was an interesting but impactful choice to intersperse chapters that mainly talked about how fucking outrageous and unjust the treatment of workers in 19th century England was.

Forreal I thought it was astonishing how long these same talking points have apparently been around. Karl just owning economists 150 years ago for saying how great capitalism has been to workers while they're living in literal squalor. Like okay I guess now we have to talk about toddlers hauling hundreds of pounds of clay uphill now.

It really is astounding just how incapable of diplomacy the US is. It's like they got to swing their might around unchallenged for a decade and in that time completely abandoned any notion of negotiation. It's one of their enemies' greatest assets, they're playing with an opponent that feels like there aren't any stakes to failing to convince anyone of anything.

My understanding from the folks on r/UkraineRussiaReport is that this is a breakthrough behind 2 of 3 lines of defense, which means going further forward might be harder than wrapping up the two lines going parallel to the front. Lotta folks with the impression that whatever they do they ought to do quickly because the aid is probably going to force things to slow down again.