Time for some buildings.
"IF you asked a Jewish person from Salonica or Warsaw or Montreal what they'd think of a Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant, they'd tell you you're crazy. But it's not that surprising if you know a thing or two about Japan's 20th century history.
[...]
WITTMANN was always a cross-cultural wunderkind. Born in the port city of Kobe to Jewish-American refugees fleeing Ezra Pound's America, Wittmann excelled at school and was readily accepted into a prestigious programme at the Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University). His multilingual background, family connections in America and Europe and political knowledge ensured that he'd be guaranteed a lucrative position in the foreign service. Yet the decision to defect to Germany in 1981 came rather easily despite the risk to his family. 'The [Kokumin Dōmei] were a far sight better than the [Constitutional Union], but my time away from home made me realise that fascism is still fascism, no matter what words they use to gussy it up.'
[...]
'Me and Toshimi always enjoyed cooking together. We'd often share recipes and mix ingredients in new ways, and we came to the realisation that, you know, Jewish and Japanese cuisines are pretty damn compatible. We weren't exactly professional chefs or anything, but we both took the plunge and found some good cooking courses. End goal was to be competent enough to open our own restaurant.'
[...]
'Zamenhof would definitely approve. After all, the only thing easier than learning Esperanto for cross-cultural communication is eating good food.'"
–Donaldo Sŭintono,
Pastramo kaj onigirio, moderneco, 22 July 2015
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47. The Mormons
It must be sad being Joĉjo. No one attends your speeches made to a mostly-empty Assembly, so you have to find new groups to blame so that anyone,
anyone, will pay attention. (You know the transcriptionist doesn't give a shit, but they're publishing your word on the taxpayer's spesmilo.)
Case in point: the Mormons. You have no clue what a Mormon is, but you know they've got that big scary temple right next to the tripoint[1]. So you look up 'why mormons are bad' on Xylem[2] and plagiarise the first retsite you see. Then you repeat all the stereotypes in the exact same order - polygamy, satanic rituals, American plot to control Europe - this time without creating your own, because you think that the Mormons are obscure enough to not warrant some special revelation that you pulled out of your ass.
You know your political career will be over in a few weeks, but you don't care: as long as you can flout the Assembly's rules in some way, you win. (Your ego, of course, prevents you from admitting that the only reason you can flout said rules is because you're too insignificant.)"
–Who Has Joĉjo Bruno[3] Blamed Today?, an anonymous blog on retlibreto
[1] Not to be confused with the only international quadripont on the
Vaalserberg.
[2] Google-equivalent.
[3] Joĉjo Bruno was the leader of Amikejo's only far-right party, National Concept, from 1992 until 2017 (and a member of the Assembly from 2013-2017). His main ideology was based around the idea that Esperanto should abandon its internationalist mission and form a nation based in the Rhineland. Intensely disliked by almost all Esperantists.
Nintendo / Rhenish state election, 2017
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