Robert Raffety

@ThatEricAlper In the US, we do a little of this too. We buy kilos of cocaine and pounds of weed.

@old_doozer @ThatEricAlper Yeah, the Brits definitely win this one.

@ThatEricAlper Brits, I am 5ft 4 inches, weigh 10 stone 7lbs, I'll put 50 litres of fuel in the car that does 55 miles to the (imperial, not US) gallon. I need a bit of wood 1.8metres x 46 x 25mm. A litre of orange juice, a pint of beer & a gill of whiskey

@AgingAnarchist I would never do that, that’s nuts. It should be done in the other order. McDonald’s first, then sushi. What kind of barbarian do you think I am?

アメリカ人は寿司を食べたあとマクドナルドに行く。やっぱり日本食じゃ何か物足りないんですね。

People in the United States LOVE Japan. Tween boys have a reverent awe of anything that vaguely evokes Samurai or Ninja. Anime is loved by nerds. Sushi was popularized by Yuppies but now it’s a treat for everyone. Hippies see Zen when anyone is quietly awesome at something. This list could be a lot longer. Nobody looks down on Japan where I am from.

🇯🇵 Something I'm noticing more and more on X. When we were young, we were told that the Western world looked down on us. But almost all of the anti-Japanese posts come here from developing countries. I have to say that being on X has made me much more pro-Western.

@fuyuto64 It’s never too late.

「銃を扱う事の本質は精神修行であり、日本の弓道や禅に近い」という考えをもとに返信くれた人と意見交換したんだけど “道”を 「道具や技、作法を固定化し究める事を目的に」したもの と定義するなら、日本が“銃道”を作れなかったのは少し悔しいものを感じる。

@kangminlee Historically, “Oriental” is just as vague. The Orient Express stopped in Istanbul and Oriental rugs can from as far west as Morocco. I don’t think “Oriental” should be considered offensive but “East Asian” is more precise, easier to say, and avoids pointless fights.

As an Asian, I believe we should revive the usage of the term "Oriental" to distinguish East Asians from South Asians, Arabs, and other races in Asia Everyone knows we're extremely different, yet we're lumped together simply because we share the same continent

@the_crowtaro @jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool Sometimes my brain is like…

@rob_raffety @jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool The mental gymnastics here sheesh

*Every anonymous poll shows blue winning* "Those anonymous respondents are virtue signaling."

@jordanw00456197 @theramblingfool I buy it but I wonder if some vote blue so that they don’t have to lie when people ask how they voted. There is no downside to voting blue in a hypothetical poll, but lying takes some mental effort. That would still be plain old virtue signaling.

@theramblingfool They might be virtue signaling to themselves.

@4nt1p4tt3rn Have you upgraded your PB&J or are you still working with Wonder bread, creamy Jif, and grape Welch’s?

I am well into adulthood. I will still eat the hell out of a PB&J. This is right, normal, and natural. I will not discuss this, nor will I take questions. Just sit there in your wrongness and stew.

@thevivafrei It could.

But if you kill a murderer, the number of murderers in the world does NOT remain the same.

@dsn0wman @RealPostFolder I wish that kind of thing only happened in Seattle.

@RealPostFolder In Seattle we a have a white people taco restaurant called Taco Time. You can even get tater tots.

I think that's just "taco night" to most Americans

@AntiLeftMemes Because teaching children to do that is how you get adults who can do that.

In what situation would a child need to know how to do this?

@Chloe_bae28 Lots of them hate each other, if that counts.

Is there an ideology that openly hates the working class and the everyday joe?

@its_The_Dr Hold my beer. I’m pretty sure I can take ‘im.

Would you?

@ChinaUncensored Strong property rights and freedom of association create thriving free markets in a happy accident. It’s not about “economic systems”. It starts and ends with individual liberty. Governments should concern themselves with nothing else.

“Capitalism” is a Marxist strawman, a term first coined by French (of course) socialist Louis Blanc, because if the debate is between a system where “we kill you and take your stuff,” vs “you can freely engage in labor and business without interference,” you know what people are going to pick, so Marxists make up these BS labels to trick the same people they have nothing but contempt for.

@RealEdFriendly @LibertyCappy Put it on a shirt, I’ll buy it.

@LibertyCappy sad but tru

LOL

@TheRealJBx The price of these things at Sam’s Club and Costco is often less than a whole, raw chicken. It’s got to be a loss leader for a lot of retailers. If we’re going to have a SNAP program at all, it should cover wholesome, low-cost foods like this.

Rotisserie Chickens will soon be able to be purchased with SNAP funds. Thoughts?

@FrankyChen19 @nxt888 Some of that money will probably be used to support a Weibo account where the posts take an incomplete set of facts and a small assumption or two, and spin them into a questionable critique of China. I’ve seen something similar done recently.

@rob_raffety @nxt888 Every accusation is confession. Pay someone to "write crap".

If a foreign army occupied Texas, American militias would mine the roads. We know this because Texans will tell you themselves. Proudly. They have bumper stickers about it. They have prepared for it. The entire cultural mythology of the American gun owner is built on exactly this premise: When "they" come, we will be ready. "They." Some imagined foreign force that will one day arrive to take American freedom. The irony is total and it is never examined. The people most loudly committed to the fantasy of armed resistance against foreign occupation are the same people who looked at Iraqis mining roads against American soldiers and called them terrorists. The principle they claim to love, an armed population will resist occupation, they apply exclusively to themselves. The moment someone else applies it to themselves, in an actual occupation rather than an imagined one, the principle evaporates and what remains is: "Why do they hate us?"

@asuka_481 Baby cuddling in public is like art in public. It is culturally enriching, spreads joy, and promotes unity.

電車で親子がイチャついてる動画が 「迷惑行為だ！」「家でやれ！」 と炎上してしまう みんなはコレについてどう思った？

@judgeshowgames @philosophymeme0 I’ve got a bunch of ex-girlfriends who would vehemently disagree with that.

@rob_raffety @philosophymeme0 I'd hope so. It's nice to see someone who thinks about it instead of immediately judging, even if your thought doesn't necessarily agree with mine. The world would be better with more people like you.