Christianity had a pretty big influence on Japanese culture due to missionaries, Samurai Champloo (same director as Cowboy Bebop) is a good watch if you haven't seen it.

I think it is operating on the logic that Israel has some shiny toy the US doesn't and why is the US giving them so much money to not have the same toys they do

I think he's widely believed to be the top candidate for the next speaker after Pelosi ends her imperium, so probably just running for congress again.

Would highly recommend using Bookwyrm instead unless you are using it to connect with friends that are already on Goodreads, Bookwyrm is the Goodreads of the fediverse.

https://bookwyrm.social/

Someone not moderating antisemitism in their comments, when there is so much of it there, probably does not really mind antisemetism imo.

RIP to the YouTuber NovaSpiritTech, they passed away from cancer according to Jeff Geerling, they had some update videos about the cancer over the past year, but still hard news to hear. If you have ever looked up a Raspberry Pi tutorial in the past few years you might have watched one of their videos.

So people in Chongqing are the New Yorkers of China?

Some of the context behind all of the specifically anti Chinese racist laws of that era, is that the people in Washington were legitimately worried that China would just send boats of people to the west coast and out colonize the US because there were so few white colonizers on the west coast at that time, so it was very useful to have all those laws and drum up that kind of hatred specifically.

There were only around 500,000 people in the entirity of California at the foundation of this party for perspective.

I missed dancing to the YMCA song holding a sword

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It's amazing that the Supreme court is seen as a beacon of democracy because of like half a dozen rulings over the past century that will probably get overturned in the next 4 years.

The reason the flag was at half stalf before the executive order is because Biden chose to lower them because Carter died a week or two ago.

Everyone clowns on AUKUS, but the quad is also an awful name for an allaince, I think they should get more respect for being shit.

Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is the full name which is somehow even worse than just "the quad".

it's jumble in the thread, they said if someone sends them a new feed they will host it

Classic lemmy.world liberal behaviour to make a c/keeptrack to keep track of Trump's presidency, politics truly is team sports to them. Do you think that maybe the last guy could have done some bad things or do bad things only happen when the president has an (R) in front of their name.

FLYING THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES AT FULL-STAFF ON INAUGURATION DAY

the fuck Jimmy Carter executive order lol

PSA some new feeds were added to jumble, check the pinned post on c/podcasts for more info