Andrew Shepard

@Essex_Patriot Cause Chinese immigrants mostly don't cause trouble. At least where I live, they commit the least crime of any community, and their neighborhoods are usually the safest.

Why if the UK is so racist do we never hear people saying "Send the Chinese back home"? For decades the Chinese community have integrated, worked hard and contributed. People AREN'T racist, the population are just FED up being taken for mugs by others!!

@sandman_AP Wearing masks was already mainatream in Japan then and had been for decades.

Considering Ulti debuted in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, Oda may have incorporated the state of the world into her character design.🔥 After all, he said people should wear masks outside and even drew Luffy wearing a mask.

@caitoz Israel belongs to the jews until someone with a more powerful military can remove them. Since Arabs are fucking dog shit at military tactics, they have tried and failed countless times.

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this: "Israel did X." "Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y." "Yeah, because Israel did Z." "Yeah but only because the Arabs did A." But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there. So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today. This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected. Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews. The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

@mistressdivy Airgas

What’s the dumbest name for a business? I’ll start: Fifth Third Bank

@AuroraMaqui I used to subscribe to the American version of Shonen Jump.

What made you start reading or watching one piece?

@Minfilia Does live action not have the duck?!

pickin up where the live action leaves off in One Piece and now I gotta pretend I know this damn duck

@Romy_Holland That's what you fucking deserve for going to Dubai 🤷

one time i was on a flight from dubai to sfo. 7 hours in, they come on the loud speaker and tell us there’s a medical emergency and we’re diverting to moscow. we’re about to go up over the north pole, so this is our last chance to land for awhile. i’m seated just behind the wing and watch as they start dumping fuel for 20 minutes to reduce weight. 2 hours later we land in moscow. it’s january and ive never seen a more depressing tarmac. i quickly lose all hope ill get a cool layover—it turns out visas take awhile to get, and in the end they don’t let us off the plane anyway. we sit for hours. children are crying. everyone is hungry and thirsty. finally after 5 hours, they feed us. this would be illegal under normal circumstances, but none of the rules apply to emergency landings. they keep coming on the intercom to say they’re working on taking off again. after 6 hours on the tarmac they finally tell us that the US will not clear the plane for entry because it opened its doors in russia. we have no choice but to return to dubai. we fly back and arrive in the middle of the night. we deplane and have to go through customs and immigration, and collect our checked bags. i’m flying a large rug back for someone as a favor, so i have an obscene amount of luggage. they send us to a weird little room to wait for a shuttle to an airport hotel. we wait an hour. it’s 4am when we reach the hotel. i pass out on a creaky twin bed for a few hours before the phone rings. it’s time to go back to the airport. bag check line, security line, then we finally board again. it’s the exact same plane, my same headrest is broken, the same guy is sitting next to me. it’s all so surreal. before we even begin taxiing they come on the intercom and tell us there’s been a medical emergency. there is a collective groan. no doubt someone’s just having some sort of anxiety attack, but nevertheless we wait an hour for them to remove the passenger. finally we take off. my whole body hurts and i feel delirious, but at least im not one of the people flying with kids. door to door the trip takes 54 hours total. 2 days later i wake up with the flu and am sick for 2 weeks.

@BizballMaury I can't really imagine Oakland or Montreal as baseball cities. No MLB history there to play off of.

MLB expansion is in the not-too-distant future. Here's a detailed guide to each of the top markets. I spoke to each of the active groups for this report. There are 10 markets examined: ·      Charlotte, NC ·      Montreal, Quebec, Canada ·      Oakland, CA ·      Nashville, TN ·      Orlando, FL ·      Portland, OR ·      Raliegh, NC ·      Sacramento, CA ·      Salt Lake City, UT ·      Vancouver, BC, Canada READ THE REPORT 👇🏼 forbes.com/sites/maurybro…

@yinzer_g An MLB team in Montreal? What are you, crazy? That would never work.

MLB expansion?? Charlotte, NC - Good option Montreal, CN - No to Canada Oakland, CA - Just lost their team, why go back? Nashville, TN - Best option Orlando, FL - can't fill seats in the other 2 FL baseball stadiums Portland, OR - disaster of a city Raliegh, NC - Decent option, very small market Sacramento, CA - Would cost $5B to build a $750M stadium Salt Lake City, UT - Good option, small market. Vancouver, CN - No to Canada If they were going to add 2 teams, I'd probably go with Nashville and either Salt Lake City or Charlotte.

@StopAntisemites What's the issue? This is an accurate representation of Middle Eastern/Arab culture, is it not? Let them show the world who they really are.

Update: The superintendent of Beverly Elementary has issued a statement condemning the antisemitic, pro-violence stickers that were displayed at the Middle Eastern/Arab table during Diversity Night. The stickers have since been removed. We hope that, moving forward, the families responsible will be prohibited from participating in future school events.

@Shpow @jk_rowling @zarahsultana Did you just call the most successful author of all time illiterate? That is objectively not true.

@jk_rowling @zarahsultana I’m not surprised the illiterate and hateful JK Rowling who called a hypothetical Jewish character “Goldstein” doesn’t understand what globalise the intifada is. You hateful wretch, I regret the sixty or so hours I spent reading your books as a child.

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

@threenotes_jp I'd live there if I spoke fluent Japanese.

海外のみんな、日本を好きですか？

@WSJ_manga Does that pun work in Japanese as well?

Someone Hertz by Ei Yamano has reached 300.000 copies in circulation with 3 volumes. Series is recommended by Akutami Gege with a Special Illustration in Volume 3.

@thedailybeast Good.

The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good has been quietly relocated to a different state and allowed to resume work. thedailybeast.com/ice-agent-jona…

@broadwaybabyto She was a fucking bitch and deserved to die. Sorry.

He murdered Renee Nicole Good. Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”. He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state. No punishment. No accountability. No justice.

@Sxnt1_Sxndxval I fucking HATE small children.

Ayer hice que bajaran a una madre y a su hijo de 4 años de la sección de primera clase en un vuelo de 10 horas, y no me arrepiento ni un poco. Pagué una fortuna por un asiento en una zona que se promociona como exclusiva para el descanso, y apenas me senté, el niño empezó a patear mi asiento y a gritar porque no quería usar los audífonos. Cuando le pedí amablemente a la madre si podía controlarlo, me miró con desprecio y me dijo: "Es un niño, no puedo amarrarlo, ten un poco de empatía, seguro tú no tienes hijos". Tiene razón, no tengo hijos, y precisamente por eso trabajo 80 horas a la semana para poder pagar un viaje tranquilo lejos del caos. Llamé a la jefa de cabina y le dije que mi boleto garantizaba un estándar de servicio que no se estaba cumpliendo. Como el vuelo no estaba lleno en clase económica, pedí que los reubicaran a ellos o a mí (exigiendo un reembolso parcial). Al final, los movieron a ellos al fondo del avión. La mujer se fue llorando llamándome "clasista y odia-niños", y un par de pasajeros me miraron como si fuera un criminal. Yo pagué por silencio y comodidad, no para ser el soporte emocional de una madre que no sabe poner límites. ¿Ustedes creen que los niños deberían estar prohibidos en ciertas secciones de los aviones o yo soy el que está mal por exigir lo que pagué? Los espero en los comentarios.

@mj_ackerman23 @PaoYn18 Are they mad THAT it's portrayed or HOW it's portrayed? Because they're portrayed as bad and the people doing it as monsters (literally in some cases).

@PaoYn18 They were just mad that Tatsu liked a post about a user saying that ppl who sexualized teenager girls should be arrested, then the user technically pointed out how harassment and sa is portrayed in dandadan and that japanese man's argument was "how about the men in the series?"

I saw that some people in the Japanese fandom are complaining that the story tends to downplay the suffering of Okarun and Jiji when when they’re assaulted, Zuma lived a terrible life simply for being a man, and that things are handled conveniently to push certain ideologies +

@Enividtm @ClownWorld I assure you that's down to the engineering of the cars, not the skill of the driver.

@ClownWorld No fire or fatal crashes, and that’s why they’re professionals

Holy crap 😬

@Todd_Spence That better be a private school spending that much money on props for a school play...

@Sonic46539794 The idea that there's a mattress large enough for Jimbe and Franky to sleep in at the same time. Remember, they live a ship. Ships aren't known for their spacious living quarters.

You cannot sit there and tell me that these 4 are not sleeping in the same bed together, this frame SCREAMS polycule