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Life, I lost interest

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@ObamaGarak I tweeted this based off our conversation, I agree that Pinyin is objectively superior, hard to dispute this.

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Wade-Giles is superior to Pinyin as it reminds one of opium parlours rather than the classmates page for introductory accounting.

Zhongguo - Chung-Kuo
Qingdao - Tsingtao
Mao Zedong - Mao Tse-Tung

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@postlibgooner “Wong Kar-Wai speaks about this”

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I admire how the Russian conception of their nation is divorced from the political nature of the state. They are able to simultaneously identify with the Empire, USSR, and Putin’s technocracy.

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The amount of young people ‘excited’ to vote straight ticket Republican is functionally zero.

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The appeal of leftism to students is that it is a total negation of the existent society. The ‘right’ briefly offered this and was rewarded accordingly.

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It is impossible to be a radical of any variety without a form of hatred for your constituency. This is how the disconnect between the idealised form and the reality is psychologically reconciled regardless of if one is a Bolshevik or a fascist.

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In this manner Valentin is his only real ‘equal’, implied by Bresson through the omission of the scene where Charles explains the act to him.

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In ‘The Devil, Probably’, Valentin, not Michel, is the true foil to Charles. He represents an alternate version of Charles, who while still bearing an identical burden, is free from cerebral analysis and thus able to exist in pure, permanent nihilism.

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Patrick White, 1938. The source is ‘The Home: An Australian Quarterly’, an arts and culture magazine published in Sydney from 1920-1942.

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This is how I have always related to my city: autumn leaves falling on the playing fields, the sun illuminating the terracotta roofs of the east, the grand cliff faces towering above the Pacific. Such powerful images, composites of childhood and various formative media.

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Lou Reed and Nico, 1967