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@marumaru_miyako 春が大好きです！

昨日は山の方を走ってきましたが桜もどんどん咲いてて走っててもちっとも寒くなくて走るだけで楽しくって 春が来ましたね！

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Since today is cultural exchange day, some of my favorite Japanese albums Yorushika - That's Why I Gave Up on Music Lamp - For Lovers Minako Yoshida - Monochrome Taeko Onuki - Sunshower

As a side note, grocery store sushi in America has markedly improved in the last ten years. It used to be that you were getting something that was just low quality and not that great, but most places today are assembling something fairly decent. I eat it multiple times a week.

This is all a reminder that real cultural exchange that’s wholesome, beautiful, and respectable is still possible today but our government hates us and exclusively imports third worlders that despise us and want us dead. This world could be so much better.

Incredible things are happening

アメリカ人からのランチの誘いは社交辞令だけどBBQの誘いと射撃の誘いはガチの招待らしい

そもそもジャップ皇国はBBQを始める前の下準備がテキトー過ぎる 当日に買ってきた既に切られてる薄切り肉を焼いてタレを付けて食べるだけ 入念に準備して肉を仕込んでいる本場に勝てる道理などない

@oskkpu その通りです！

イスラム人まじでいらん 毛深いし臭いし日本語通じない

They’re deboonking the Holocaust over on Japanese twitter

I recommend listening to the four Lemminkäinen Legends by Sibelius (together they form a symphony!)

Something I learned this past winter; both Tolkien and Sibelius were students of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. Both credit the Kalevala as the germinating seed for much of their work, and both were baptized Christians. There’s always inspiration in the European mythos.

For naive conservatives who think this can be done in Western nations by being "tough on crime," let me insist: What was accomplished in El Salvador under President Bukele (he posted this video showing before and after his transformation of El Salvador x.com/MAGAVoice/stat…) demonstrates that you must become illiberal and authoritarian if you want to clean up the mess liberals have caused with integration, mass immigration and woke policies. Bukele, in order to be successful (while gaining the support of over 90% of the population), had no choice but to suspend some constitutional rights and limit due process. He had no choice but to declare a "state of emergency" multiple times, curtailing the right to legal counsel, freedom of association, and privacy in communications. His government had to conduct mass detentions of over 85,000 on the basis of "uncorroborated allegations," going against the "presumption of innocence and due process." It had to restrict ability of judges to offer alternatives like bail or house arrest and impose virtual hearings often involving hundreds of defendants at once, with little opportunity for effective defense. As liberal Western journalists (same ones responsible for unlivable American cities) have pointed out, detainees are frequently unaware of charges and lack access to legal representation. Bukele had to limit judicial autonomy, replacing "corrupt" Supreme Court individuals with loyalists, a policy he extended to lower courts. These actions, which have drastically improved living conditions for the majority, are "contrary to liberal ideals," as Western liberals say, "of an independent judiciary protecting individual rights." There have been many "human rights violations" and other actions "undermining equal protection under the law." Bukele has employed the military to "intimidate" political opponents, once threatening the legislature with armed forces to pressure lawmakers. He has used propaganda to encourage citizens to report suspected criminals, which has "fostered a climate of fear and informant culture, undermining liberal values of privacy and community." All in all, this "authoritarian" control over all branches of government and civil society has weakened the system of "checks and balances". BUT this illiberalism finally allowed El Salvador, after decades of incessant violence, to escape corruption, violence, and economic chaos ---- and secure the freedom of the majority.

In the Continental USA (48 States) American Bison c. 1900 ~ 500 American Bison c. 2026 ~ 500,000 Bald Eagles c. 1963 ~ 940 Bald Eagles c. 2026 ~ 316,000 Wolves c. 1926 ~ 1000 Wolves c. 2026 (range restoration in PNW & Yellowstone) ~ 7,000

“Why did Sibelius end his Symphony No. 5 like that?” “I… I don’t know. I really just don’t know.” “Hmm…”

@inkblotistan Hail Ink Blot!

unfortunately for me, as I travel world in places where I have no audience, I will become irrelevant and invisible on X as of tomorrow. Please remember me frens. I have enjoyed our time together. Look beyond the fog and you will find me, posting for you, as always. Consider turning on notifications for Inkblotistan.

@revenant_MMXX @husafell_stone I already cancelled.

Americans should cancel premium if Elon does not give us country blocking by the end of April. I liked supporting the site at first but it just gets more and more unusuable every month.

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