The gradual extinction of softness
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The gradual extinction of softness
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#2Wow, what a beautiful piece of writing. The sayings from that period, the weaving of "recipes", and the little girl's mindset add a lot of color to this piece.
Re: The gradual extinction of softness
#3Wow, what a beautiful piece of writing. The sayings from that period, the weaving of "recipes", and the little girl's mindset add a lot of color to this piece.
Agreed, it's equally beautiful and heart-wrenching. What a read.
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#4Such a good read. Gonna have to keep an eye out for her memoir. There's starting to be a flourishing of SE Asian voices with Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ocean Vuong. I hope more come, especially more women. Hopefully more cinema too; it'd be wonderful to have responses to the America centric and sympathetic portrayals of Vietnam.
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#5The US is headed that way. After we lose the first war with China, over Taiwan,[1][2] the decline will accelerate.
[1] https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/us-will-lose-fast-i...
[2] 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
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#6Wow, what a beautiful piece of writing. The sayings from that period, the weaving of "recipes", and the little girl's mindset add a lot of color to this piece.
Agreed, it's equally beautiful and heart-wrenching. What a read.
I could not stop reading. For some reason the Vespa scene struck a chord and I don’t even have such a memory. Something universal in the magic of softness. I think we all lose a bit of softness as we grow up, can only imagine what that annealing feels like when you grow “down”.
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#7The US is headed that way. After we lose the first war with China, over Taiwan,[1][2] the decline will accelerate. [1] https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/us-will-lose-fast-i... [2] 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
You think China is going to use biological weapons to conquer Taiwan? I mean, why not just throw a few nukes in too?
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#8Wow
Re: The gradual extinction of softness
#9The US is headed that way. After we lose the first war with China, over Taiwan,[1][2] the decline will accelerate. [1] https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/us-will-lose-fast-i... [2] 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
I’m not a military strategist, but I don’t understand. That article you cited about America should w say the US would lose a battle with China ?
What about all the ICBMs, long range bombers, subs etc etc which would be used if something like that happened ?
Re: The gradual extinction of softness
#10The US is headed that way. After we lose the first war with China, over Taiwan,[1][2] the decline will accelerate. [1] https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/us-will-lose-fast-i... [2] 2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis USN
You think China is going to use biological weapons to conquer Taiwan? I mean, why not just throw a few nukes in too?
> I mean, why not just throw a few nukes in too?
Perhaps they'd want to keep the existing infrastructure for themselves? That's hard to do if you turn Taiwan into a pool of lava...