Rafa Jaffa Rafa

Future important person. Maybe. Mainly technocratic politics discussion but sometimes anime sneaks in.
Capitalism Ho!

[Rafa Jaffa Rafa @rafa12341]

Capitalism Ho!

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

A viral Japanese tweet compares this photo of the former and current Prime Ministers of Japan to a shot from the opening of the anime series Gundam Seed.

[Rintaro Nishimura | 西村凜太郎 @RinNishimura]

The survey suggests the likelihood of Koizumi vs Ishiba is the highest, followed by Koizumi vs Takaichi. Ishiba vs Takaichi would be less likely if Koizumi is truly breaking away from the pack. Kobayashi & Hayashi hold bargaining power in run-off if they don’t make it themselves.

[Dragon connoisseur 🐉 @LadySapphyre]

Bards when they’re the last party member still standing in combat:

[Rintaro Nishimura | 西村凜太郎 @RinNishimura]

Ex-PM Koizumi Junichiro asked about his son’s statement to call an early election if elected PM, leaving the remarkable quote instead that Shinjiro should not become prime minister right now. Seems his remark that his son should wait until turning 50 still stands.

[Leslie J. Anderson @inkhat]

All hobbies require zero talent if you’re comfortable with being bad at them.

[Rafa Jaffa Rafa @rafa12341]

When I was in air cadets we all watched full metal jacket and laughed at the drill Sargent scenes. We turned it off once they got to Vietnam

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

Coppola on Apocalypse Now and 'anti-war' films.

[Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs]

Gambling is one thing I’ve flipped on as I got older. I used to laugh off the critics and think of gambling as “a tax on those who can’t do math” but I’ve come to think that’s cruel (and regressive) and paternalism is good here. This paper is another brick in that new wall.

[John III Sobieski @JohnIVSobieski]

King Michael I of Romania lived long enough to play as himself in Hearts of Iron 4.

[Rafa Jaffa Rafa @rafa12341]

@Stustaboo @ponettplus @thedrunkendan Never died baby

[Luan97 @Luan9717]

As the Olympics are coming, here is my cleaned cover based on the original artwork by Rumiko-sensei for the Weekly Shonen Sunday 1984 (Showa 59) vol. 3-4, to celebrate the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Games of the XXIII rd Olympiad, in Los Angeles.

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Fallout: London is out on GOG (free mod, requires Fallout 4 + all DLC) https://t.co/4IfyEVc48b

[Basil🧡 (they/them) @LinkofSunshine]

Taiwan choosing to make the most valuable commodity on Earth over a bag of rice

[Max @MFRP92]

Microsoft outage but Teams and Outlook are both fine is the adult version of snow that doesn’t settle enough for a school closure.

[Karl Pike @p_ikek]

Keir Starmer said it a lot. How many people heard? Answered in the More in Common/UCL report.