Uncommon Sense

@26ers_bp115 I worry for the future of Japan if it can’t keep itself Japanese. Don’t make the mistake of Europe and America.

ダンキンドーナツに入り、勝手に商品を持ち出すアフリカン。 これに苦言を呈したら人種差別だと騒ぎ散らす。 恩を感じるどころか悪用する事しか考えない連中なんだから、いい加減、BLMだのポリコレだの言ってコイツらを甘やかすのをやめろ！

What the audits found is that there simply isn’t enough data to prove the fraud. Think about it, with a mail in ballot how do you prove it wasn’t submitted by the person it was sent to? The process is designed specifically to be anonymous, so that no persons vote can ever be checked, which makes demonstrating that John Doe was mailed a ballot he didn’t fill out basically impossible.

That argument skips a few important realities. First, voter fraud is already illegal and heavily audited, and multiple investigations (including by Republican led states and courts) haven’t found evidence of “massive” fraud swinging elections. If it were widespread, you’d expect consistent proof not just claims. Second, mail in ballots aren’t unverified. They typically involve signature matching, barcodes, voter registration checks, and in some states even ID numbers. It’s not just “send a ballot and hope for the best.” Third, the Costco comparison doesn’t really hold up. Voting is a constitutional right, not a private membership service so the legal standard for access is very different. That’s why courts scrutinize laws that could unintentionally block eligible voters. Finally, states that don’t require strict photo ID often use other verification methods, and many states that do require ID still allow alternatives (affidavits, provisional ballots, etc.) to avoid disenfranchising legitimate voters. You can argue for stricter ID laws as a policy preference but saying the system is “engineered” for fraud doesn’t line up with how elections are actually run or what’s been proven.

No voter ID, especially when combined with mail-in ballots, means the system is engineered to make fraud impossible to prove. Everyone knows that you can barely get through your week without showing ID for the most banal activities, like shopping at Costco. The only reason to ban ID is to hide massive voter fraud.

You aren’t debating your existence. Nobody thinks you’re a mass hallucination. They’re saying you’re not a woman, which you’re not. I am not 7ft tall. Every scientific test you could do would say I’m not that height. I could say I am, but a tape measure would say otherwise. You can claim you’re a woman, but a quick cheek swab would say otherwise.

It’s crazy how as a trans woman I’m just expected to “debate” my existence and validity as a woman, while governments criminalise our healthcare There is no nuance to be had when the media and politicians want us dead, but I’m supposed to convince every transphobe of my position

To try to shed some light on it… every American I know took it as the sort of joke you’d tell a friend who pranked you in college. Pearl Harbor was a long time ago and we did drop those two nukes to end the war. I don’t know a single American who doesn’t consider us more than even, and that Japan is one of our best friends now.

Japanese news outlets were doing a live translation of the press conference, and when Trump dropped the Pearl Harbor joke the translators were audibly lost for words and paused for a few seconds in disbelief

@shine_gomiseifu Letting large numbers of blacks into Japan is a terrible mistake.

これをみて人種差別反対って言ってんの？ お前らは黒人だから差別されてるんじゃなくて、 犯罪者だから差別されてることにいい加減気がつけよ。 自分たちが黒人の名誉を傷つけてんだろ。 真っ当な黒人の人がかわいそう。 そもそも同胞の悪行に異議を唱えず擁護して差別差別って騒ぐ連中が目立ちすぎてんだよ。 そりゃ黒人全体に野蛮なイメージがつくに決まってる。 真っ当な黒人は敵を間違えるな‼️ ヒロアカ見て出直してこい🫵

@maziehirono Quick question, what else do those bills do beyond just fund operations? I know the answer, but I’m curious if you’ll admit it.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Seven times. That's how many times Democrats have tried to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. And every single time, Republicans have refused. They would rather protect ICE's lawlessness than protect our communities. How despicable.

Honestly I’d happily 10x the wages for politicians if we also basically made any other income source completely illegal. No investment profits, no “small businesses” that miraculously land big contracts, no donations, no gifts, nothing. You’ll get paid by your job, and you’ll get paid based on the talent we want to attract, but no more grift.

While the 2026 Gulf War has taken over my writing, normally my main message is to help people actually make a difference in the world instead of just blathering online. This is one that I wish I could address more in that vein. The problem is that I can't. Americans have long had a distrust of politicians and greed and corruption. As a brilliantly stupid solution to this concern, we've decided as a country to pay public servants in the form of peanuts and leftover movie theater popcorn instead of actual wages. Why are government employees the biggest bums in the world? Because the only thing attractive about the job is how little work you have to do to avoid being fired. Why is everyone in Congress either very wealthy, insider trading, or both? Because we only pay members of Congress $174,000/yr. That may sound like a lot, but I assure you, for the lifestyle you have to maintain in that position, its awful. Its poverty wages. They have to fly back and forth constantly, probably either maintain two residences or stay in hotels, maintain two vehicles in two different locales, pay any personal staffers and aides, maintain a litigation insurance (because there's nothing Americans love more than frivolous lawsuits), and more. By the way, DC is one of the most expensive places on the North American continent. They really do not get paid as much as you think. As a result, the only people that run for office are either already very wealthy or so nakedly power hungry that the fact they basically live in poverty doesn't deter them. I would love to run for Federal office. I know exactly who I would challenge and I think I'd actually have a non-zero chance of defeating her—but I can't, because the risk to my ability to maintain my household is too high. If you go to State or Local politics, its even worse. My State's Legislators actually get paid less than the State's median salary. I know people like the *idea* of a Spartan Politician, but I must remind you—Sparta collapsed for a reason. They were extremely powerful for a very short time, actually. Their bad views on citizenship and living conditions for public officials was a big part of why. If we want to fix the ineptitude of the GOP and these Government bodies, we have to actually pay them MORE so that more competent people will compete for the job.

@Grummz Blessed silence from India, yes.

Are you gonna use this?

We've fined 4chan £450,000 for not having age checks in place to prevent children seeing porn on its site. The Online Safety Act is concerned with protecting people in the UK. It doesn't require platforms to restrict what people in other countries see. 🔗ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…

@BibleU777 @NoahRevoy Go find me women who are equally upset about the gender imbalance in trash collectors, oil riggers, janitors, etc, as they are about CEOs. I’ll wait.

@failed_testing @NoahRevoy Just as parents are legally liable for their children? You just argued that women are under men's authority for life. I haven't ever heard a man complain about it. You also wrongly assume women didn't want responsibilities reserved for men.

If I were to start a private school, it would be a boys-only institution. All teachers would be male. Most would come from military backgrounds, with preference given to those with special forces experience. The structure would prioritize physical and practical development. Each morning would begin with physical training. Boxing. Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Obstacle courses. Firearms training. There would also be a strong emphasis on building. Shop classes. Hands-on work. The ability to construct something real. Even for someone who becomes an IT engineer, knowing how to build a chair matters. Real-world construction develops thinking. It trains problem-solving in a way abstract learning does not. Academic instruction would be concentrated. No more than three hours per day at a desk. That is sufficient to meet curriculum requirements and maintain academic competence. The rest of the day would be spent developing strength, discipline, and practical skill.

As I explained earlier, most things she needed permission for was because *he* was legally liable for her actions. It wasn’t really fair to either party, but pretending it was uniquely oppressive to women is silly. Going to jail because your wife took on debt that couldn’t be repaid is not privilege. Pretty much every so called privilege was (and is) like that. Men could take on roles women could not, but men were also required to fill roles that women did not want to. In the modern era, that looks like 90% of CEOs being male… and also 90% of workplace fatalities because men work dangerous jobs women don’t want to.

@failed_testing @NoahRevoy Surely you didn't think I meant men could always vote even when voting didn't exist? I'm talking about women historically having far fewer rights than men, even free women being treated as property of fathers & husbands, needing their permission.

@BibleU777 @NoahRevoy About 50 years, which is *nothing* in the scale of things. Universal male suffrage wasn’t a thing until the late 1800s and women got it in the early 1900s. For the thousands and thousands of years preceding it, voting was a very carefully gatekept privilege of the very few.

@failed_testing @NoahRevoy So you think historical records of women treated as property are all lies? Do you know how much longer women had to wait for the right to vote, buy property, or have bank accts.? And if, single women could, then married women couldn't! Self own.

It’s a team effort, ironically. Women make a great deal of noise about equality when we’re talking about CEOs and suddenly get real quiet when we’re talking about trash collectors, despite the imbalance being worse in the low status jobs than high status ones. Men indulge this for the same reason they always have, they think it’ll get them laid. If you want the most glaring example of this, just look at prohibition. (On average) men didn’t want it, women did, and despite (mostly) not having a vote they still managed to get a constitutional amendment passed with ruinous effects.

@failed_testing @BibleU777 @NoahRevoy But men are still in power lol it doesn’t work like this because other men at the top are preventing u from doing this not women

Essentially nobody had basic human rights until about five minutes ago in historical terms. Life sucked for everyone other than the top 1% of the 1% of both men and women until after the Industrial Revolution, and even the first baby steps towards human rights didn’t benefit men as a gender until very recently. Beyond that, much of what most people “know” about gender inequality is either incomplete or flatly wrong. The best example is probably the myth that “women couldn’t have bank accounts without a man’s permission!” This is both incomplete and wrong. The restriction only applied to married women. Single women were free to do whatever they liked. Second, the reason it required her husbands permission is that *only* the husband was liable for debts she incurred. If she went into debt, he would be jailed for it. That doesn’t sound like a system that benefits men at the expense of women to me. The idea that women were a uniquely oppressed class while men were uniquely privileged is a-historical.

@failed_testing @NoahRevoy As if women haven't been denied basic human rights for most of history and find it pathetic when men whine about a little loss of entitlement.

@BibleU777 @NoahRevoy It is absolutely amazing how 100% reliable it is that whenever someone says “I would like to do good thing for men”, someone inevitably pops up to scream “BUT WHAT ABOUT WOMEN”, as if normal men aren’t falling behind (or being pushed) in every measurable way.

@NoahRevoy Girls don't need phys-ed? Self-defense? How to build or fix things? Boys don't need to learn to cook or clean? Both sexes are to be kept so separate that they don't know how to relate to each other as human beings when they grow up?

@_cingraham Ah yes, the Virginia democrats are well known for their impartiality and adherence to fair play.

Donald Trump is easily the worst president for free speech in modern U.S. history, and now there's data to prove it.

@NYCMayor Nope, he should have been home years ago.

Today, an administrative immigration judge ordered the deportation of Rafael Rubio, a City Council employee. This is an affront to justice. A dedicated public servant with legal authorization to remain in the country, Rafael showed up for a routine immigration appointment and, despite following the rules, he was detained and has now been held for months. He should be immediately released.

@zundamotisuki Why would you stand within arms reach of the window with a wild animal trying to break in? Why are you not running for a weapon, or at least away?

窓を破壊しながら女性宅に侵入してくるアフリカ系移民の映像が話題に 移民推進派はこの映像を見ろ

@SydneyLWatson I have the memory of an etch-a-sketch in an earthquake, so I absolutely do not have a mental list... but I do have a written one with reminders set.

Men - do you have a "mental list" of things you need to do every day? Or do you tackle things as they pop up? (I'm asking because a friend and I were talking about this earlier and we both wondered how common it is for men, because it's VERY common for women)

@ChoralReave @SandyofCthulhu “To whom it may concern”

@SandyofCthulhu OK, *this* shotgun you don't have to aim.

Whoever said that has never fired a shotgun. I hate it in a movie when someone fires a shotgun 20-30 feet away and multiple bad guys go flying, or a whole wall of the house is filled with pellet squibs. If the guy's inside your house, you have to point it directly at him. He's too close for the spread to have much effect. On the other hand, the shotgun has the major advantages that it won't penetrate your wall and hit your neighbor and it will do crippling/killing damage to the loser who invaded your house.