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I'm not Jewish... but I still toast l'chaim and have Jewish friends here and in Israel. Not Mormon... still enjoy the integrity and general decency of every Mormon I've known Not Sikh... still like the people and their respect/backbone. This could be a long list... because I'm an American who is damn proud to call each of these people my countrymen, as well as many more. This is the strength of our melting pot. Awesome people who we get to share culture with. Just felt the need to put this out there, for all of my friends in this insult filled victim-olympics "X," and the greater culture who may forget how many of us are proud to be your fellow Americans. E Pluribus Unum

@hoshizorarock No...

アメリカ合衆国の国民の皆様 どうか落ち着いて聞いてください。 貴方達アメリカ人は今日からチーズもハンバーガーもピザも食べれません。 貴方達アメリカ人の今日からの食べ物は写真のような美味しそうなイギリス料理になります。 コーヒーも禁止となり紅茶に変更になりますので味わってたくさん食べてください。

@planefag @PstafarianPrice Perhaps a rice cooker could have helped with that?

@PstafarianPrice Listen the hamburger and rice came out fine they just didn't want to play nice together

Hello Japan! In this thread I will document making onigiri for dinner tonight. I don't have Japanese mayonnaise or bonito flakes but my sister bought this miso paste last year for something and never opened it, so hamburger onigiri it is. I will update the thread as I go.

@FamedCelebrity @drkeithsiau If you have had family with dementia... well... this is easier to imagine than you want it to be.

@drkeithsiau Some lawyer right now: Hey, the instructions never said 'remove pill from wrapper.' Ka-ching!

One example why a medication has been taken but doesn’t work. What other examples are there?

@donguriweb Dude, we're already at work.

さすがに今起きてるアメリカニキはいないよね

In my opinion, NATO should have been given an ultimatum first... we do this together to save Europe's energy and shipping routes. Or we do it alone and we're out of NATO, say hello to Putin for us. The Houthi incident with Iran's spotter ship in the Red Sea justified this retaliation. But it should have been Europe doing the work, because it's Europe's energy and goods. Europe is a gutless shell, that will happily sit it out, because they don't believe we will leave them to swing in the wind. They believe we want to avoid repeating WWI/WWII so much that they will get to ride free on a US enforced global free trade system of waterways. We want peace... but we don't NEED peace.

@workhostage @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com > But every rational person knows it had to be dealt with at some point, by someone. By a president threatening to blow up key civilian infrastructure, and mocking them with “praise Allah?” Get the fuck out of here.

Trump Drops an F-Bomb on Iran, and Democrats Are Melting Down pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/…

@Kurogeki China 'looks down' because they cannot face anyone honestly.

@workhostage blue-water navy？ 外洋に出られる艦隊みたいなものかな？ 自衛隊は原子力空母持ってないし、領海警備の海上保安庁にしても攻撃されなければ射撃許可すら下りない。 日本はどこまでいっても反撃しか許されないので期待はできないかも。 だから中国に舐められるのよねぇ😅

海外の人に聞いてみたいのですが、日本の捕鯨を批判するのはどういう理由からですか？ 過去、日本では 「キリスト教的価値観から」 「鯨は知能が高いから」 「絶滅の恐れがあるから」 というのが理由だろうと考えられていました。 しかし 「キリスト教の国でも捕鯨の歴史がある」 「知能の高い豚やタコは食べられている」 「近年、鯨の個体数は増加傾向にある」 これらの事実から、日本人には捕鯨が批判される理由がいまいち理解できないのです。 私個人としても、この問題には長年頭を悩ませてきたので、よければ教えてください。

Yes. "Blue water" is what we call a Navy that can actually operate in the open ocean. We can solve that problem for our Japanese friends. We build new Submarines and carriers rather than refurbish. We need to offer every Nimitz Class carrier, and Ohio/Los Angeles class submarine to Japan if they want them, instead of decommissioning them. Japan has the drydocks, and skills required to refit them and put them to good use.

@ShamashAran @PoptartReborn That would probably be because "X" doesn't actually exist. (Strauss and Howe were flawed) 1946-1970 are broadly 'Boomers' (functioning society/family) '71-'86 are what people think of as 'X' ('80s and '90s latchkey/divorce/analog+digital) '87-'00 (Millennial GWOT/cell phones)

@PoptartReborn Yeah probably. Your generation will have the same thing happen to it as it gets older, too.

Hey gen X I hate to break it to you but you’re turning into the next insufferable generation.

@Kurogeki @4Ud1CCuftl19105 The US and the Japanese have the only real "Blue Water" Navies remaining. (The British are gone) The only way to save the fisheries of the Pacific from Chinese destruction, would be our peoples working together. Perhaps a new 'Sea Shepard' group has a place in the world.

@workhostage @4Ud1CCuftl19105 👍

@Kurogeki @4Ud1CCuftl19105 Exactly. Chinese are doing far more harm, the 'Sea Shepherds' won't do anything to stop them. Which is why they are both scum. In the US we call environmentalists "Water melons," because they are green on the outside, but the heart is red. Did that translate?

@workhostage @4Ud1CCuftl19105 シー・シェパードは反撃してこない相手にしか攻撃しないからね。日本船は法律の都合で放水するしか対処法が無かった。これが中国船なら体当たりもするだろうし、ロシア船とかだったら銃撃されてるよ。

@elyseauvin @MeghanEMurphy I want to say that is wrong, but I have known guys that stupid. I will say this... the best a woman will ever look is the morning with messed up hair, destroyed makeup or none at all, wearing one of your shirts and begging for coffee. Because you just met the real her.

@MeghanEMurphy It’s like how the men call makeup “lying” but date women who walk around with a full face 24/7. They want to benefit from being with a woman who looks good on social media but don’t want to face the reality that it’s fake & takes work.

Why would you date a woman like this?

@petersumthing @MeghanEMurphy You skipped the part where you explain what she does the instant you slack off on the validation, or she becomes secure in your relationship, and concludes your validation isn't objective. You're describing a Borderline Personality.

@MeghanEMurphy They are **exhausting** --- their need for validation is insatiable.

Then stand up with the same bravery we Americans had to face when we met you on the battlefield. Take back your nation and make it what you wish. The Japanese are builders, above all the other things your people should be proud to call yourselves. We stand with you now, and wish nothing but success in your efforts to build the Japan you want your grandchildren to thrive in.

@hokkori_nekko ダメな国だよ。 一番近い例は最近の交通規則改定。 更に増税への従順。 他も多数の理不尽が日常のあるある。 胸張れるのはごく一部の上級国民では？

娘が学校で 「日本はダメな国」と 習ってきた日。 犯罪率は世界最低。 識字率はほぼ100%。 災害で略奪じゃなく列を作る。 どこがダメなのか 俺にはわからなかった。 おまえたちの国は 胸を張っていい国だ。

@JaSigss @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com Yup. And after watching the behavior of people I knew during Covid, it's because that accurately reflects the electorate. People are brutal, disgusting, and vicious sheep who follow the loudest voice in any given room.

@workhostage @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com We used to actually respect politicians being a little regal or statesman like. I enjoy the edge and the quick whitted jabs, but this looks more like someone out of control of their faculties has the keypad. Everything is literally starting to imitate Idiocracy

Who cares what Trump says? He's a narcissistic moron. The sole redeeming thing about him, is identifying structured dysfunction and destroying it like a chimp with a hand grenade. The difference is, the structures these people have built in the last 100 years are more dangerous than the dumb ape. That's why I just laugh and point out the spots he may have missed in the orgy of mayhem. He really may pull us out of NATO or the UN by the end of this term, and what libertarian would have ever considered a win on that scale possible? Just sit back and enjoy the show.

@workhostage @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com Ah yes, the MAGA side of TDS. Trump has declared we've "won" about 7 times now, but we're still there and we're about to put boots on the ground. It's going so well

@JaSigss @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com Yeah, but it always kinda was one. The issue now is that the internet has created a "virtual" Universe 25 society of constant group interaction.

@workhostage @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com And people wonder why Jr High Kids are as messed up as they are🙄 We are stuck between blue hairs screaming men are women and Evangelicals speaking in tongues and their Supreme Leader swearing on Easter Sunday in a planned out public statement The US is a 🤡 show!

So you gave up... cashed out and stopped playing. I can respect the choice. But then you're out of the game. Your opinion doesn't matter, and their foolishness shouldn't matter to you. The core issue we have on the libertarian side, is the foolish belief that if you treat others as you wish to be treated, they will reciprocate. But that is only true for a small subset of people who are probably already libertarian's of some style. The vast majority of humanity doesn't know what the enlightenment is, and only plays the game to maximize short term returns for themselves. They deal fairly only when slitting your throat is more bothersome than losing. Some will kill you just because you COULD demand they trade fairly, or because you disagree with their choice of invisible friends. Libertarianism only works when reserved for rational actors.

@workhostage @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com system in 2021. I have done other things that often put me at peril I will not discuss here but I am standing up for myself, you tard. Don't assume you know anything anyone else has or hasn't done. I was a part of the system trying to change it, I realized it was futile.

Have any of us done anything about it? You still paying taxes? Still vote? Still live here? I get it... social contract...? I didn't sign a damn thing! But we were the ones who broke the Prime Directive and gave the savages machine guns and oil-filled money fountains. So, I suppose we are involved. We should have tarred and feathered Woodrow Wilson, we should have forced Truman to not leave Stalin standing and avoided Mao, Pol Pot, most of the brutality of the last 80 years in sub-Saharan Africa... but we didn't. So we need to clean it up, or wait for it to explode in our faces. You fuck with the dick you have, not the one you wish for. Clean up the mess and do a better job next time.

@workhostage @ThomasEWoods @PJMedia_com You say "we" like any of us peons had anything to do with this insanity. Please, remove the "we" from the equation and point your finger at the culprits, the entire federal government, their cronies, and other countries that can't be mentioned or you get tagged as a terrØr1st.

@ArmchairW "Unravel"... No US deaths. From the same Vatnik accounts who claim hundreds of thousands lost by Russia in Ukraine are 'all part of the plan'

In making sense of a complex event, it's often best to start with the facts and then work backwards from there. So what are we to make of this weekend in Iran? My theory is we just saw an attempt to seize Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium unravel. Down the rabbit hole.⬇️ Let's run through the timeline and the location of key events first: The evening of April 2nd, the Iranian military released a video of them shooting down a USAF aircraft. This was initially claimed as having occurred over the Persian Gulf, but apparently occurred near Isfahan. Wreckage corresponding to an F-15E of the 494th Tactical Fighter Squadron was recovered from a site south of Isfahan the morning of April 3rd, although geolocation of the very barren crash site took some time (fig. 1). The afternoon of April 3rd, a number of USAF HH-60s and an HC-130 fueler (!) were spotted operating further south and west in Iran, over Kogiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, as well as at least one A-10, an MQ-9 Reaper, and apparently an F-35. An antiaircraft battle developed and the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) HH-60s (fig.2) and an A-10 were damaged, with the A-10's pilot ejecting over the Persian Gulf. The HH-60s were reported as "damaged" and one was photographed trailing smoke. Reports emerged at that time that the pilot of the F-15E (which had crashed near Isfahan, although this was then-unclear!) had been rescued, while the WSO remained at large. Provincial authorities in Kohgiluyeh asked civilians to be on the lookout for an American aviator around this time and numerous photos of militia searching for him emerged. The next day passed relatively uneventfully. The evening of April 4th, however, there was a report of more helicopter activity slightly further north, in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, accompanied by a washed-out photograph of an unknown helicopter flying very low on a very dark night (fig. 3). Later that night news emerged that the F-15Es WSO had been rescued... and that C-130s had been abandoned and scuttled at a forward base in the Isfahan area during the withdrawal of a company-size SOF force that had landed in the area, over 100 operators ostensibly having been sent to rescue one aviator. Photographs that emerged as dawn broke showed two burned-out C-130s and several destroyed MH-6 Little Bird SOF assault helicopters, in a scene reminiscent of the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw (fig. 4). A USAF C-295 tactical transport was caught on video around that time flying in Iran - presumably outbound - at extremely low altitude. So, what are we to make of this? First and foremost, the official story - that a huge direct-action SOF force landed near Isfahan with assault helicopters and heavy transport aircraft to rescue one fugitive airman - is nonsense. Not because the USAF won't go to extreme lengths to recover isolated personnel - it can, will, and did in this case - but because that's an absolutely nonsensical way to accomplish that mission. It's a totally inappropriate force package for a mission to go in, extract a single person from a remote area, and leave. Ergo this SOF task force was there on other business. So how were the pilots actually recovered? In all likelihood, exactly the way you would expect them to be recovered - by USAF PJs in long-range helicopters, under cover of darkness. The rescue force probably recovered the pilot from the Isfahan area late at night on April 2-3 and were caught in daylight as they exfiltrated, leading to the aforementioned antiaircraft battle the morning of April 3rd and a high-risk refueling over Iranian territory that was filmed by many Iranians on the ground, as well as a shot-down A-10 trying to clear a path for the helicopters to exfiltrate. The WSO was likely recovered from his hide site near Isfahan by HH-60 in a quiet and deliberate operation the night of April 4-5. One or two birds, in and out under cover of darkness - a far cry from the gung-ho stories currently being spun. So what about the SOF rodeo happening at the same time? Well, why was an F-15 flying downtown to Isfahan the evening of April 2nd to begin with? Probably because there was a huge direct-action raid planned in the Isfahan area for the night of April 4-5, likely going after enriched uranium at an underground facility in the region, and the Iranian air defenses around Isfahan weren't going to suppress themselves. The plan was likely to fly several MH-6 assault birds and a sizable force of operators via C-130 and C-295 to a forward staging area near Isfahan the evening of April 4th, hit a reported cache site or sites for enriched uranium, and try to make it out with the magic dust by daybreak on April 5th. In any event the USAF wasn't going to send transports somewhere it wouldn't send strike aircraft. So the Air Force cashed its check on claims of air superiority and in went the strike package the evening of April 2nd - and lo and behold one of the F-15Es went down because reports of the demise of the Iranian air defense network had been greatly exaggerated. Any rational planner would have scrubbed the SOF operation at this point because they'd lost control of the situation and the Iranian defenses had proven more effective than planned. We went ahead anyways and inserted the SOF task force the evening of April 4th. I strongly suspect that this force was immediately discovered by Iranian drones that would have been up and searching for this WSO, because five transport aircraft including at least two C-130s (about what would be required for a bunch of Little Birds and a company-sized element of operators with equipment) landing at a desert airstrip 50km from Isfahan (and in the same general area where the WSO was taking cover) would be pretty God-damn obvious to anything with thermals. Iranian troops immediately deployed and began converging, the task force probably took indirect fire, and the operational commander immediately aborted mission and retreated in the three remaining operational aircraft. Scuttling charges on delayed fuzes burned two C-130s and an unknown number of MH-6s that had been abandoned at the airstrip around dawn. The story that they were there to rescue the WSO was concocted at that time to cover the disastrously failed raid, as were logistically implausible claims that the task force had been rescued by three additional aircraft after the two C-130s got stuck on the LZ and were scuttled - perhaps to minimize the scale of the effort. Claims that a large battle took place appear to be similarly exaggerated - video has emerged of a single group of Iranian militia apparently killed in a drone strike, but nothing of the nonstop bombing and firefights that were rumored across Telegram all night. I remind the reader that the events of the last few days have proven quite conclusively that Iranians seem to have plenty of internet access to post photos and video when they actually have something worthwhile to film. I'd like to note that Hegseth fired General George - US Army Chief of Staff - on April 2nd, apparently because he just wasn't a good fit for the job and definitely not because he'd told him that this whole scheme was insane. It seems to me that the good General's advice should have perhaps been heeded.

@MeghanEMurphy When? 18-25? This could be true... After women hit 28 it's far less probable... because she is either married and a kid or two into mom-body. Or single and starting to show mileage. He at 28, is becoming more established/desired and can easily pick up 24yr old women.

This holds up. And on the flip side men seem to pine for their exes… why?