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OK, how the hell is the Gulf of Mexico a "gulf", Hudson Bay a "bay", and the Sea of Okhotsk a "sea"???
And how is the Arabian Sea a "sea" but the Bay of Bengal is a "bay"? They're basically twins!
And let's not even talk about the Baltic "Sea" vs. the Persian "Gulf"...
Folks, this is what happens when my shower curtain is a world map.

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Noah Smith πŸ‡πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Profile picture
Feb 23
1/Everyone talks about diverse casting in shows like Witcher, Wheel of Time, LotR, etc. like it's all because of wokeness.

But I think the biggest factor is that producers want to show audiences a world where the people look like the people those audiences are used to seeing.
2/I live in a country where the people are about 60% white, 20% Hispanic, and 20% Black, Asian, and other. And I have spent most of my adult life living in cities that more or less reflected that ethnic mix.

That is what is "normal" for me to look around and see.
2/If I am in a place where everyone is white, I don't think "Ahh, the people around me look normal". I think "I am in a foreign country." Because I can't even remember being in such an environment in the U.S.
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Noah Smith πŸ‡πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Profile picture
Feb 23
1. A thread of online leftists getting mad at Bernie Sanders for condemning Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

2/Bernie literally and repeatedly said he wanted the U.S. to be like Denmark, which is a social democracy. Where was this "mask"?

(Also being a social democrat is good, obviously)
3/Remember, a very large fraction of this "ideology" is just dumb-butt anti-Americanism.
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Feb 23
Agreed. Sorry, Italians, we have appropriated your food and made it ours. But in turn, we will lose ownership of pizza to Japan, when broccoli-corn-mayonnaise pizza becomes the global norm!
Here's fried shrimp and sausage pizza
Teriyaki chicken mayo lettuce pizza
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Noah Smith πŸ‡πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Profile picture
Feb 22
It's good to see lots of leftists backpedaling their embrace of Russia's victim narrative and condemning Putin's move in Donbas.

Apparently they were betting that the Russian buildup was all for show and no invasion would happen.
As long as it was all just posturing and show, they thought they could use it to score points against liberals by exploiting Last War Brain and claiming that U.S. anger over the buildup was somehow similar to the Iraq War.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/last-war-bra…
Obviously tankies will keep pushing the Kremlin line, but mainstream leftists will distance themselves from that line. Expect to see tankies shift to attacking mainstream leftists, as they attacked Bernie for criticizing Russia the other day.
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Feb 21
FWIW, I think "culture war concessions" works only at the level of the candidate, not at the level of policy -- when it works at all. Nothing could ever have convinced America that Obama was socially conservative, even though he was and is.
Biden is making all kinds of compromises and concessions on immigration, and no one is recognizing it or caring (except for progressives who notice and get mad).
You saw the same exact pattern with Jimmy Carter. By the end of his presidency he had tacked so far to the Right that progressives primaried him with Ted Kennedy and almost won. But Republicans kept on thinking he was leftism incarnate.
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Feb 20
1/Let's talk about Bidenomics.

Politically, Biden's agenda has stalled. But it's still what America needs, so don't expect the basic ideas to go away.

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2/I think of Bidenomics as being composed of three basic elements:

1. Investment (both government and private)

2. Cash benefits

3. Care jobs

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3/Biden got off to a good start, passing a Covid relief bill that included a pioneering Child Tax Credit similar to Canada's successful program, passing an infrastructure bill that repaired roads and did some other good stuff, and passing a semiconductor industry support bill.
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