Ou Liu

@BingLiu34173809 杨院士进号子也得发帖子? (踩缝纫机肯定给免了,尊老爱幼是优良传统)

杨伟院士的小号

不错,但你一点儿风险不冒,也就没有收获可言。就这个礼拜,爱尔兰总理来拜访川总,川总痛骂英国首相,爱尔兰总理也是同样幽默开路, 大意:"做为爱尔兰人这么说有点怪,但英国首相是个好人" - 川总也就笑笑了事,事后美国媒体给爱尔兰总理喝彩的不少。 当然高市的压力更大,也是有的, 而且美国媒体对高市颇有敌意,即便发挥好了,也未必给高市捧场。

@oliu321 “美国人相当吃这一套”和“川普吃不吃”不能划等号。川普可是出了名的喜怒无常，除了不敢对普大帝，肥仔三和当今发怒是事先设定之外。

日本媒体人里面这种自我感觉良好的不少，经常能见到这种傻气乱冒的问题。倒霉的还正好遇到了怼人没商量的川总，于是就杯具了😂😂😂

@icy_rainy_day 这种英式自嘲幽默,美国人相当吃这一套,我有相当把握川总也会一笑置之 - 因为毕竟捧了美国 - 认为不该奇袭珍珠港。 司机那是典型俄国风格-管你几路来,我自一路nyet去。 当然可能高市这次策略就是保证无事发生 - 一般不冒险和有时乱冒险好像也是日本特色。

@oliu321 这不是比互怼，记者说些什么话没人管，首相让川总不开心了后果就严重了，不信看司机的先例。

@eugah @marcthiessen x.com/oliu321/status…

@oliu321 @marcthiessen That’s exactly what Ms. Takaichi is doing. For that she deserves praise. Not imbecilic insults.

FFS. When British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the White House in March 2012, Obama joked about the British burning the White House: “You really lit up the place. But we moved on.” Get a life washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/…

I really wish Ms. Takaichi had responded to Trump's Pearl Harbor reference with a line like: 'As Japan's PM, I'm actually relieved I won't have the chance to make such a huge mistake.' This would achieve several things at once: 1. It subtly legitimizes the wartime prime minister (a Class A war criminal), whether that's appropriate or not is a different story and I suspect that's what she wants. 2. It implies that launching a surprise attack on Iran without prior warning was itself a mistake - a view many in Japan likely share, even if debatable. 3. It demonstrates the ability to talk about WW2 candidly, like any normal country, helping Japan move toward becoming a truly normal nation again - something I'm confident she supports. Of course, English isn't her first language, and in Japanese political culture delivering such a self-deprecating joke would be extremely difficult.

Well, I remember Reagan was planned to make joke like "Had one of your predecessors been a little more clever, you might have been hosting this gathering", while Blair made a remark along the lines of: no matter how grave a mistake he might commit as PM, it could never match the scale of losing the US as part of the UK.

I dug into the records—no clear "first" before Obama and Cameron in 2012, when they playfully referenced the 1812 burning right in the White House. ("They really lit up the place... but we've moved on.") FDR-Churchill and earlier pairs stuck to alliance talk without that kind of historical ribbing in public. It seems they started the modern tradition!

@AlanHeaton16 @marcthiessen Ms. Takaichi is no David Cameron, but honestly, this isn't the first time leaders from the US or UK have made jokes about the wars between them. I have no idea who the first one was in history. @grok , do you know?

@marcthiessen Obama had style

@eugah @marcthiessen No, but personally I think that’s exactly the issue: Japan needs to step out of the shadow of World War II and start talking about it the way a normal country does - so it can actually become a normal country again - if that's indeed what Ms. Takaichi wants.

@marcthiessen Did you see Mrs Takaichi laughing?

@nickcjacobs @marcthiessen You forgot to capitalize the d in the difference?

@marcthiessen I wouldn’t expect you to understand the difference.

@badiucao @freetaiwan Did Obama get enough education at Harvard when he said: "It's now been 200 years since the British came here to the White House under somewhat different circumstances. They made quite an impression. They really lit up the place. But we've moved on."

@freetaiwan get some education

king of idiot just insulted the only hardcore ally in Asia

@FromTheEE @slantchev Hmm, I’m actually arguing against the idea of compelling Ukraine to come to the negotiating table.

@oliu321 @slantchev "Ukraine to compel it to the negotiating table." Ukraine? So it is Ukraine blocking the peace? No, one cannot think this way if one has a basic understating of russia and this war's root case. Which is btw the very existence of Ukraine (& West, & NATO) and independent EE .

Hegseth in 2022: US needs to equip Ukraine with what it needs, faster (Biden hasn’t been doing it); Putin has been telling us for two decades what he intends to do, history tells us to listen even if we think it’s deranged; Putin is rightly called “war criminal”; ceasefires for Putin “are only an opportunity to reload.” One must wonder how people like him ever look at themselves in a mirror. foxnews.com/video/62998999…

I don’t want to see Ukraine lose, because I believe that preventing a hostile Russia from becoming too powerful is in the United States’ interest. After the Cold War, France and Germany chose to align with Russia as a way to counterbalance U.S. dominance. Mr. Schröder still believes this was - and remains - the right strategy, Ukraine be damned. When Ukraine temporarily succeeded in holding Russia at bay in 2023, President Macron immediately traveled to China and declared that Europeans should not have to choose sides between the United States and China. I’m not saying Europe will definitely rush to align more closely with Russia and/or China the moment the Ukraine war ends - but it’s certainly possible.

@oliu321 @slantchev 1/ Stopping deliveries for Ukraine simply encouraged Russia to proceed ... Unless what you request is Ukrainian surrender ? If thats the case, Russia will simply move to the next item on their to-do list moving the war into NATO. How would a 🇺🇦 victory bring 🇪🇺 closer to 🇨🇳?

@yo_whyme @1984mz @cspan As an Asian, how dare you decide for yourself what counts as an insult? When someone says “Jump,” you reply, “How high?” When someone says “Hate,” you ask, “How much?” But when someone says “Stop Asian Hate,” you just go, “Yeah, yeah!” Capisce?

@1984mz @cspan How was it an insult? As an Asian myself, truly want to understand why you think it was an insult?

Q: "Why didn't you tell U.S. allies…about the war before attacking Iran?" President Trump: "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

@vortexEire @Polymarket Yeah, some people argue that if we don't spend enough on security, another 9/11 could happen. But even back then, New Yorkers were already mocking Bush Jr., saying things like, 'He's really stupid - sending troops to get revenge for people who would never vote for him anyway.'

@Polymarket New York spending money on helping Americans, while trump spends it on wars.

JUST IN: New York City reportedly now spending more per homeless person than the median income of the city.

Breaking: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100 billion for a new fund that would buy manufacturing companies and use AI to automate them wsj.com/tech/jeff-bezo…

@akoz33 That 'up to 20 missiles today' figure - is that just referring to Israel? Because from what I've heard, the actual number of missiles fired has actually gone up slightly over the last 2–3 days (probably somewhere around 50)

1/2 Here is another David Gendelman report with all the allusions explained by ChatGPT

@xdNiBoR Don't get ahead of yourself - I've already heard the howls of Boeing's army of ten thousand lawyers and lobbyists (and their retinues right here on X).

😳 Some people will be so angry about this... And I love it.

@slantchev "And it seems he plans to remain on the throne until at least 150." - Apparently, he also heard about Xi and Putin discussing how people can now live to be 150 years old.

Remeslo (2/4) "3. The strangling of Internet and media freedom. Ironically, in 2017 I personally asked Putin a question at an ONF media forum about the future of the Internet in Russia. At the time, he told me that we would not follow the Chinese path—and he lied. Putin himself doesn’t use the Internet, which is shameful for a head of state. We can see that mobile Internet doesn’t even work in major Russian cities. All Western social networks and messengers are blocked. Telegram is already about 80% blocked, and a full shutdown is planned for April 1. The system has gone so far off the rails that it is even choking Telegram, which participants in the “special military operation” rely on. At the same time, people are being herded into a state-controlled, multi-purpose messenger (“Max”), being deprived of access to healthcare and education without it. 4. The length of Putin’s time in power. Putin is now 74 years old and has been in power since 1999—more than 26–27 years. And it seems he plans to remain on the throne until at least 150. As is well known, absolute power corrupts absolutely—and what if it’s also endless? Even a morally flawless person would become distorted in such a situation. Putin has not always been the way he is now; before 2003 it was hard to find fault with him—which is why many of us supported him back then. But everything has its limit. We need a new, modern president." 3/6

The travails of Remeslo, the Russian pro-Kremlin lawyer who led the charge against Navalny back in the day, who recently came out with all barrels blasting against Putin, and who is now cooling his heels at a psychiatric hospital in St. Petersburg. First, let's just say how out of whack it is for this sort of thing to come out from Russia these days. This is not some random blogger who finally had it with the Internet blocking and who let it rip. It's a prominent establishment figure who was a very vocal supporter of Putin's regime for many, many years. Second, he was offered an easy way out when people started suggesting that perhaps his account had been hacked, but he doubled down, and not just in writing. He actually recorded videos to ensure that everyone knew he had written the posts and that he was not drunk either. Third, it's sort of odd that he has not been hauled into court on some trumped up charges (discrediting the Russian military or something) but that might be in part because he's a lawyer and so was careful to phrase his criticisms to focus specifically on Putin. The fact that he hasn't fallen out of a window (yet) but got hauled into a psychiatry could also mean that he has some powerful protectors who had given him the green light to voice what might be an increasingly widespread opinion of Putin. This is the most interesting possibility as it would constitute an attempt to make opposition to Putin in the corridors of powers common knowledge. It's not for nothing that Remeslo specifically refers to the well known tale about the Emperor's New Clothes: recall that the fable is about a situation where everyone knows the truth but because nobody says it, nobody knows who else shares that opinion, and so everyone remains quiet. The power of making a privately shared truth common knowledge is substantial in authoritarian systems, which is why rulers expend a lot of energy suppressing it through propaganda, intimidation, and coercion. Let me translate his original posts so you see what's going on. After reading these, read the translation of a panicked post by Anastassia Kashevarova, from the pro-Kremlin propaganda show Solovyev Live. Her reaction is telling me that this is no mere outburst and that regime supporters are very, very nervous indeed. 1/6