iirc a British officer in charge of screening and decommissioning IJA soldiers in late 1945 joked that he'd met so many translators and cooks that he wondered how the Japanese fought at all.

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Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"

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"There should be horses pulling carriages in Central Park" is a perfect Trump position. Essentially none of his business, basically inconsequential, but squarely in the category of "tacky late-20th-century NYC tourist experience," which is the most completely developed part of his brain.

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Like it's literally the same Donald Trump tactic of saying "I'm really an outsider, self-made billionaire who's here to drain the swamp of these elitists, by which I really mean the marginalized people that I've redirected your anger towards."

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the elites include: not the government not the media barrons, not the judges of the supreme court, but the country’s most underemployed demographic and the trade unions

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