Dark Humor, Faith Rush, and Zero Calm: My Inner Timeline

January 20, 2025

9:45 AM

I feel isn't such a major . I feel it's best to . I worry about close corporate and political ties; for example, I perceive relationships involving ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████. Nippon Steel is a Japanese company, and he may, as Secretary of State, have advised President █████ to take a tougher line on . At the same time, I know many Chinese people who are hardworking, smart, and honest. Many of my oldest, dearest, most impactful friends are Chinese; some support . I have observed that China's economic growth coincided with large reductions in poverty for millions of people and very substantial export activity. Martinn Teng, like ███████, went to help ████████'s team and helped me when my dad died. I went to Singapore for two years. Valerie taught me my subjects. I guess there are more Chinese who came through for me. My dad worked with Mitsubishi for Japan and had friendships across cultures.

When I saw i18n on TikTok, I immediately saw myself in them and wondered how they must feel about perceived injustices. I disagree with President █████'s approach and feel that major tech companies, including , exert considerable influence in politics; I also feel similar dynamics existed during the . I believe Google has significant control over search indexing and can influence what appears online — for example, my website received that I felt were unwarranted. I am concerned about the role of in creating dominant platforms, and I think established services may view TikTok's short-video model on YouTube as competition. I think TikTok can be beneficial for the U.S. I don't use it personally; I use FB, but I believe people should be free to choose platforms. feels and inconsistent with American values, and it evokes troubling historical examples of depicted in works such as .

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4:15 PM

I like Elisabeth; she's very brave.

She could do so much.

She's brave, courageous, and confident.

I think Trump might have chosen her.

But he knows better than I do.

And I might be wrong.

Vance can become more prominent because of this VP post.

He is humble, a gifted writer, and compassionate.

He could win support from the middle class as a presidential candidate.

The working class.

Because he believes in fair opportunity for everyone.

I would have chosen Emily Compagno as defense secretary.

She is a fighter.

You can see her determination every single day on Fox and Friends.

I'd consider Tucker for a role; he's a very authentic man.

Maybe even Secretary of State, though he may not project the typical diplomatic style.

Journalists often take that approach as part of their role.

They show respect to the people they interview.

I tend to be more direct.

You can see that in my approach.

That amuses me.

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7:15 PM

American Psycho was released roughly twenty years ago, as I recall

25 years ago

I haven't seen anything quite like it since

At some point, ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, and that the industry shifted toward more culturally sensitive storytelling

I feel that in their defense, they shaped more "healthy, wholesome and positive" outcomes; rather than if toxic figures like Vito Corleone, Tony Montana and Patrick Bateman were the only archypes ("types") that people were exposed to, and cheering, and trying to emulate as "cool"; I admire how in Star Wars, Mando, and Last of Us, there was a new cool achieved in the protagonist, as a man who cares, who puts others before himself and fights for good causes.

But in the recent past, after WW2, it was all about the vilification of the "hero" █████████████████████████████████████████ which is why we cheered the rebel, the anti-villain and underdog. We saw how Vito or Michael chose to save their family, Tony Montana████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

That's why many of those older movies are often regarded as "superior" by some; as they re-shaped how we saw life, morality and each other as a interconnected society.

With very few films, such as Top Gun Mavericks, finding similar broad appeal, ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

But my work, I believe, is authentic

It doesn't aim to follow every contemporary trend; I'm a Mac, and I like to think that makes it distinctive

That's why there is considerable demand for it