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Deputy editor @ForeignPolicy. Wrote Bloody White Baron, The Death of Mao, and upcoming Heaven's Empires. Married to @larsonchristina. DC, ex-Beijing. He/him.

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    James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer 11 Mar 2020

    an idiot dynast sits on the throne. plague ravages the cities. a once-globalized world falters. the scribbling literati bemoan the status given to merchants Canadians, judging by late Ming history, now is absolutely the time to send your mounted cavalry over the border

    7:25 PM - 11 Mar 2020
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      2. James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer 11 Mar 2020

        I, for one, welcome our Canadian overlords.

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      3. James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer 11 Mar 2020

        @JustinTrudeau would suggest marrying off a heir into both the Windsors *and* the remnants of the Trumps, thus allowing the clan to claim legitimacy through multiple sources in a couple of generations time

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      1. Jordan Schneider‏Verified account @jordanschnyc 11 Mar 2020
        Replying to @BeijingPalmer

        our wall is just too weak

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      1. Nitai Deitel 戴宁台‏ @NDeitel 11 Mar 2020
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        This is the moment @JeremiahJenne has been waiting for

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      1. Roy‏ @moheroy 11 Mar 2020
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        We’ll just settle them in Wayne County, MI as Foederati

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      2. Eric Morse‏ @eriq49 11 Mar 2020
        Replying to @BeijingPalmer @dhnexon

        Can we wait till it's safer?

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      3. James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer 11 Mar 2020
        Replying to @eriq49 @dhnexon

        the noble sons of the tundra don't fear the virus! (because their closer proximity to livestock has bred greater immunity to zoonotic diseases until a later dynasty weaponizes smallpox against them)

        0 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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      2. Faine Greenwood‏ @faineg 11 Mar 2020
        Replying to @BeijingPalmer

        The great army of Mounties, in their jaunty hats, pour over the Canadian border like red water.

        1 reply 0 retweets 31 likes
      3. Faine Greenwood‏ @faineg 11 Mar 2020
        Replying to @faineg @BeijingPalmer

        The Mounties appear to have re-invented the stirrup

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
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      2. Brendan O'Kane‏ @bokane 11 Mar 2020
        Replying to @BeijingPalmer

        we tried the peasant uprisings but the party rallied behind biden

        3 replies 0 retweets 54 likes
      3. pachyderm‏ @GentleLabourer 11 Mar 2020
        Replying to @bokane @BeijingPalmer

        Low information peasants!

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