Tobita Chow
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Tobita Chow
@tobitac
left globalist | Chicagoland | immigrant | he/him
Illinois, USA
Joined January 2011
- I am thinking of the accounts of how so many people welcomed the outbreak of WW1, how they found it exhilarating, romanticized it
From Snowpiercer and Gangnam Style to Parasite and Squid Game, every Korean cultural product that's gotten big in US seems to revolve around the theme of inequality and fairness.- That smiling old man is Abe’s grandfather Nobusuke Kishi. Doesn’t he look kind? Let’s look him up to see what a good grandfather he wasA manga adaption about former japanese prime minister Shinzou Abe will be released on Oct 1, 2023 in Japan. Title: "Abe Shinzou Monogatari" created by TEAM ABE The 67 years of Abe Shinzou's life Image © Asukashinsha, TEAM ABE
- Some facts about the WWII internment of people of Japanese descent that I find important First, FDR issued the order. Every once in a while I encounter liberals and progressives who are shocked to learn this
- Replying to @Econ_MarshallWould really love to hear what’s unfair about it
- Pretty damning stuff
The failed global response to the pandemic is an occasion to re-examine the public health model championed by one of Big Pharma's most influential enablers: Bill Gates. newrepublic.com/article/162000… - I remember a time when even people like this with zero experience with blue collar workers would still know the stereotype of the union guy who refuses to do anything anyone tells him because it's not in his contract. A sign of labor's decline that this image has been lost"It's hard to explain to people in the laptop class just how bizarre this all sounds to blue collar workers. You're being asked to show up to work and you tell your boss no—and you're the victim here?" Always read @metal_gear88 but especially on @elonmusk and Twitter:
- Anti-Asian violence is in the news again. It is important to connect the dots. This is an expression of the rise of anti-China politics in the US in the past year, which cannot help but catch the Chinese diaspora and the many other ethnicities who "look Chinese" in the middle
- Given a choice between prolonging the pandemic and the possibility that it might get easier to cure diseases in China, the US government chooses to side with death This hurts the whole world but most of all the global south countries trapped in between the great powers
