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1 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The Chinese State Media Guy really reminds me of a 2000s-era Fox News Dad. Except instead of telling me about how government always wastes money and Muslims want to implement Sharia Law, he's always telling me about stuff like this:
I mean this is exactly the Fox News Dad haircut. He just came back from a local realtors' association meeting. Image
Fun story: The actual Fox News Dad on whom these stereotypes are based once told me that I needed to make a series of FIVE-YEAR PLANS for where I wanted to be in life. I don't think he even got the irony.
@brianbeutler You may also know this particular Fox News Dad

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And why he's also wrong about the nature of the global economic system.

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A good thread about the history of anti-Asian racism in pre-WW2 America. Note the pretty incredible shift from before the war to after.
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How can America save the world from catastrophic climate change?

There is a way.

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