Wanderthread Redux (Part 2)

Wanderfound · August 18, 2021, 11:00pm

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Wanderfound · August 18, 2021, 11:32pm

Things I do not miss about academia:

ARC = Australian Research Council. Primary source of science funding in Oz.

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Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 12:05am

So, much the same as ye olde Cold War. Empire never changes.

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 12:08am

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 2:48am

Wanderfound:

Known for his brutal rule of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the “Monster of the Shōwa era” (昭和の妖怪; Shōwa no yōkai ).[1] Kishi later served in the wartime cabinet of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō as Minister of Commerce and Vice Minister of Munitions,[2] and co-signed the declaration of war against the United States on December 7, 1941.

After World War II, Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a suspected Class A war criminal. However, the U.S. government did not charge, try, or convict him, and eventually released him as they considered Kishi to be the best man to lead a post-war Japan in a pro-American direction. With U.S. support, he went on to consolidate the Japanese conservative camp against perceived threats from the Japan Socialist Party in the 1950s. Kishi was instrumental in the formation of the powerful Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) through a merger of smaller conservative parties in 1955, and thus is credited with being a key player in the initiation of the “1955 System”, the extended period during which the LDP was the overwhelmingly dominant political party in Japan.[3][4]

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 2:59am

Dangerous times in the near future; the empire tends to lash out when its embarrassed.

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 3:04am

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 4:53am

Apparently he knew this interpreter so well that he never bothered to tell him that an “Afghani” is a unit of currency, not a person.

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 5:01am

Buckingham Palace and Capitol Hill
Blood of my ancestors had that all built

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 6:55am

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Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 8:23am

“Four days ago! Don’t you realise that the entire US imperial project relies upon the American public having the recall of a goldfish? Why aren’t you helping us to memory hole this already?”

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 8:42am

Wanderfound · August 19, 2021, 9:29am

…and this might provide the required excuse:

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