{"updated":"2026-11-04T19:51:00Z","content_md":"https:\/\/x.com\/joshtpm\/status\/2117833741653713396 This was praised as the best election tweet ever, and I didn't get it. Turns out I am culturally illiterate and it's a [ST:TNG reference](http:\/\/archive.today\/ve3NA), a pretty philosophically deep one too.\n\n![[5tgsbng5r5smhdpqmdcsvedv8v]]\n\n![[0ntqzns84p3ycw7k9gady2xjm0]]","changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-11-04T19:03:05Z","note":null},{"version":2,"at":"2026-11-04T19:51:00Z","note":null}],"transclusions":[{"id":"5tgsbng5r5smhdpqmdcsvedv8v","version":1},{"id":"0ntqzns84p3ycw7k9gady2xjm0","version":1}],"created":"2026-11-04T19:03:05Z","page":"f\/35th1b8mprx81v4gd3s3rpvjqc\/","content_hash":"sha256:0982fbaea1ccc3fc53320c347cb5037b40fe33a1d015b967e1ea25ba2fa83fbc","id":"35th1b8mprx81v4gd3s3rpvjqc","kind":"thread","origin":"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/blyg\/","content_html":"<div><div><span><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald, when the walls fell<\/p>&mdash; Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshtpm\/status\/2117833741653713396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n This was praised as the best election tweet ever, and I didn&apos;t get it. Turns out I am culturally illiterate and it&apos;s a <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.today\/ve3NA\" target=\"_blank\">ST:TNG reference<\/a>, a pretty philosophically deep one too. <\/span><\/div><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"5tgsbng5r5smhdpqmdcsvedv8v\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><blockquote>If we pretend that \u201cShaka, when the walls fell\u201d is a signifier, then its signified is not the fictional mythological character Shaka, nor the myth that contains whatever calamity caused the walls to fall, but the <i>logic<\/i> by which the situation itself came about. Tamarian language isn\u2019t really language at all, but machinery.<\/blockquote><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"0ntqzns84p3ycw7k9gady2xjm0\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div>","version":2,"media":[],"blyg":"0.3"}