Then again, Israel didn't see cases start to collapse until ~50% vaccination, so maybe it's just too early to tell. These other countries are in the mid 30s.
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This is interesting, because I feel like weebism is in many ways an effort to recover teen love...not just because people missed out on it, but because America's version of teen love is not very romantic, fun, or fulfilling.
I need to write my General Theory of Weebism in a blog post.
The preview: Weebs imagine Japan is a place where dorky, awkward young people get to be romantic and sexy. And whether or not they're right about that, they end up using Japanese media to create a not-very-Japanese subculture in which they DO actually get to be romantic and sexy.
3/For example, Hickel completely put words in @NickKristof's mouth.
Hickel claimed Kristof was a cheerleader for capitalism, when in fact Kristof was simply celebrating the drop in global poverty without making any claim as to the cause.
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.
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.