also the Aesop tweet has VERY STRONG Thomas Friedman energy to it
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its especially confusing because that is not among Aesop's better-known fables and when I see a wolf and a lamb my mind tends to go "wolf in sheep's clothing" or the boy who cried wolf. maybe at a stretch to Byron
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and it's a bit odd because Chinese political cartoons existpic.twitter.com/uVehi610YY
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admittedly many of them are sublimely cryptic to me I wonder how much of this is a matter of translating across literary conventions maybe those cartoons would actually be bangers in a chinese cultural contextpic.twitter.com/xcSoRVnkST
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heres the original motivating thread (two clicks) https://twitter.com/darpyu/status/1392336359365373953?s=19 …
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ok heres an explanation for the fertilizer comic 1. fertilizer is something like "fattener" 2. embezzlement is "eating" 3. there's a typo and it should say "fattening" not "flattening https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1392340654705942532?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/gCMdfq0gPK
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broke: masturbating gives you hairy palms joke: masturbation makes you blind woke:pic.twitter.com/pRu9BAyfUT
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also apparently hates celebrities? was this some kind of anti-Western thing?pic.twitter.com/v38Hn3cJrr
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definitely getting a defensive cultural vibepic.twitter.com/CvlLPNUz7x
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ending with a gratuitous attack on the Cantonese holy cowpic.twitter.com/uH1ZjF3eYZ
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