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23 Jul, 8 tweets, 2 min read
The border wall is and always has been meaningless and performative, so its efficacy was always gonna be shit. Half the shit coming across the border is in underground tunnels.
Deetz and receipts: bbc.com/news/world-us-…
Migrants with money to spare pay to use stuff like this, and those try to cross through the desert, where they sometimes die. Which is literal policy, not an oversight, made with the intention of being a deterrent. it hasn't been.

Details.

And hey, wanna know something wacky? Y'know all those things Republicans claim they want to stop? Undocumented immigration, et al? Know how to crash that?

Open the borders.
Prior to 9/11, when the border was more open, plenty of people lived in Mexico, and went to work/school in the US. They crossed the border DAILY. And they had no desire to move permanently, cuz why bother.
A closed/harder border is what has INCREASED undocumented immigration. Why fight for a nightmare-to-get visa if you could just live in Juarez and work in Texas?
Wendover has a great vid on the shitshow that passes for the situation at the US-Mexico border here.
It's an international border, not a fucking tree fort. You manage it with policy, not a wall.

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For folks into that sort of thing, DKUTV on Twitch is having a golden-oldie Miyazaki weekend. Now on deck: "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind" (NOT "Warriors of the Wind," the real deal).

twitch.tv/dkuteevee
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It's got a lot of... I believe the Pokemon folks call it "Cultural Odor."
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Oh, god. I'm gonna talk about this one, too.

This is a depiction of a kabuki actor, dressed to play a female part in an ancient drama originally performed in the classier, more-acceptable noh theater.

Kabuki was INCREDIBLY popular. Dangerously so, in the government's opinion.
Kabuki was originally started by all-women touring groups, and the stan culture surrounding them was frantic. The fact a lot of these women were also sex workers on the side, & that fans paupered themselves paying for sex, was what got female actors literally banned in the 1620s.
With women banned from the stage, their parts in kabuki were then played by... wakashu. Who I tweeted about earlier.

Who were already considered the embodiment of INCALCULABLY HUGE sex appeal by EVERYONE, at the time.

WOW, who could have foresaw, THIS DID NOT FIX ANYTHING.
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....There's.

There's a Kickstarter up.

To fund a documentary.

About Dingo Pictures.

And like... do I back this? DO I?? I DON'T KNOW???

I'm just
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They're also responsible for the eye-assaulting meme factory that was "Animal Soccer World."
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Had a #dream a fairly-well-known figure in the comics/animation scene made a conscious decision to get into marionettes, under the assumption this was a sparsely-populated hill they could be king of unopposed.

They were they kind of person, y'see, in the dream AND for real.
They uploaded YT bids of themselves playing with/describing acquisitions, one of which was a female version of Frankenstein's monster (no, not Bride of Frankenstein, a female Frankenstein). They just bounced the marionette up and down by all its strings at once, very amateurish.
But I was like, "That's an interesting character," and Googled it.

Turns out, it was an obscure, one-season Nicktoon about a woman who was a mad scientist who made herself a girlfriend, and whose cool cheerleader, Valley Girl daughter thought science was like, SUPER uncool, EW.
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*KICKS THE DOOR DOWN* Anna Swan??? You mean wife of Captain Bates, mother of the Guinness World Record-holding largest newborn, at nearly 25 pounds?
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Most sideshow military titles (General Tom Thumb, Commodore Nutt, etc.) were BS. Image
And, ever on my eternal "The sideshow as show business and these people were celebrities" crusade: When Anna Swan and Captain Bates married?

Queen Victoria gave them a matching pair of XL, diamond-studded gold watches as a wedding present.
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