The United States and Japan are allies, but please, never try to make Japan the 51st state of the United States. There are approximately 120 million Japanese people. If a Japan state were to be created in the United States, who do you think would become the president of the United States?
Japan Twitter, please admire my grandpa's revolver :)
During the Korean War, it was decorated by a Japanese master engraver. I, sadly, do not know the craftsman's name
The mainstream media's total blackout on the Japan-America Lovefest on X is interesting isn't it
Over the weekend, something genuinely beautiful and barrier-shattering unfolded between ordinary Japanese and American X users after the rollout of a major Grok powered auto-translation feature combined with algorithm tweaks.
Two tribes of humans separated by language and distance and.. history, just talked directly to each other in whimsical ways, shared countless pictures of BBQ meats and muscle cars, and co-created anime memes reflecting their newly formed bond.
It was raw, it was real, and it was super wholesome. There was so much curiosity about the other. I saw a really respectful debate about Shinto theology versus Christianity, a viral post about fart nomenclature, treatises on why American culture and gun culture can't be separated, tips on what meat cuts to use for BBQing and how to make marinade, and the shared bonding that comes with the realization that "hey… your crazies sound and look exactly like our crazies.”
Liberals love to preach about the sacred importance of “connecting” - building bridges, fostering dialogue, and embracing cross-cultural understanding.
Well, here it was on X - a genuine, organic, bottom-up explosion of goodwill between ordinary Japanese and American citizens. This was human connection above borders and it's exactly what every self-proclaimed progressive claims to live for.
And yet, when it finally happened, apart from @PirateWires and @TheBabylonBee, there's been a total media black hole about this.
Which is maybe excusable if they didn't actually spend WEEKS covering "chinamaxxing" as a social media trend on TikTok last month.
BBC, NYT, WaPo, CNN, WSJ, GQ all pumped out multiple fawning articles about influencers suddenly finding themselves at their "most Chinese time of their lives," and how Beijing’s cultural exports were winning hearts and minds.
But it's total crickets when Japanese and Americans voluntarily, joyfully, and directly bonded on X.
Why?
Because this lovefest is not anti-Western. It’s not anti-American. It’s not pro-authoritarian. It’s two free peoples with no pretensions looking at each other going "hey, you’re pretty cool actually.”
So the mainstream media doesn't really know how to cover something like that. Nor would they want to. It's not in their DNA. There is no point to score against America and particularly, the Americans they despise the most (the ones whose lifestyle the Japanese were super interested in). So there's no story there.
Anyway, if X can repeat this many times over in other countries - that would be huge. Great work @nikitabier
@watch_rome_burn@BillyCookn@Half_A_Pond After recent years, I would take China taking over the world over the US/Israel pedo death cult any day of the week, any hour of the day.
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@BillyCookn@Not_the_Bee I am a huge "car guy", owned close to 100 in my life. Every single one has been American, but every one of my motorcycles has been Japanese. I really miss my 1300 VTX, best bike I ever had.
The bromance between Japan and America reached new levels this weekend as we bonded over grilled meats and mass deportations 😌
notthebee.com/article/the-br…
@m_takewaka Since you have a great Prime Minister hopefully that will change. I would fly your flag anyway if I were you. There should never be shame about being patriotic.
My friends in America, in Japan, expressing patriotism is met with shunning. For example, if I put a Japanese flag sticker on my car, police officers will stop me for questioning. I only display the flag at my front door on Japanese holidays. Almost no one displays the flag at their home on weekdays. This is due to the past excessive claims made by the Japanese right wing, but don't you think it's natural to show patriotism to the country you were born in?
@EricLDaugh NATO was to protect from the Soviet military from rolling over Europe. That threat was gone 30 years ago. We don’t need to waste our money on Euro trash countries that hate us.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: NATO was just put ON NOTICE by Sec. Marco Rubio
"If NATO is just about US defending Europe if they're attacked but them DENYING us basing rights when we need them?! That's NOT a very good arrangement."
"That's a hard one to stay engaged in...so all of them are going to have to be reexamined, all of it's going to have to be reexamined."
What does NATO even do for America in 2026?