𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣³ ♂🃏

🇺🇸 Enlightenment Liberal. Blue Collar Knuckledragger.
"Humor can break the pane(pain) of the Overton Window". Pronouns: Gen-X/DGAF

[𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣³ ♂🃏 @VBaker111]

@tanpukunokami Hunt Brothers pizza. American chain found mostly in rural area convenience stores.
10 toppings. Savory and slightly spicy flavor profile.
One of my favorites.

[Battle Beagle @HarmlessYardDog]

I found the housing cost problem & the solution.

[タフ君 @Tough_Kunn]

Every summer morning in Japan at 6:30 a.m., something special happens.

Kids — half-asleep, summer vacation in full swing — walk to the nearest park or schoolyard by themselves.
They line up with their neighbors: elderly couples, office workers, even toddlers holding their dad’s hand.

A familiar piano melody starts. Everyone moves in unison.
Three minutes later, it’s over. The kids get a stamp on their card.

This is radio taiso (radio calisthenics).
Started in 1928. Still going strong today.

In America, summer vacation means total freedom.
In Japan, it means the whole neighborhood makes sure the kids aren’t sleeping it away.

A piano. A park. Your neighbors.

A country that decided community is worth waking up for.

[タフ君 @Tough_Kunn]

A German guy living in Japan said
something Japanese people can't say
without getting cancelled:

"Japan has no obligation to accept me.
I'm a guest here."

No outrage. No politics.
Just a foreigner reminding everyone
what respecting a country actually means.

The most Japanese thing I've heard
all year came from a German. 🇩🇪🇯🇵
https://t.co/NJU60RzMYU

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

People say “that’s not fair,” but often what they really mean is “my status feels diminished."

People care deeply about fairness, especially when it comes to how material resources are distributed. But often the concern is not really about the resource itself. It is about something underneath it. People say they care about fairness, but what they are really asking is: do you respect me? Do you see me as equal? Are you granting me the status that matches how I see myself?

Take a common example. You find out that others at your job, in the same role, are being paid more than you. You are still doing well. You are comfortable. By most objective standards, you are fine. But the moment you learn that your peers earn more, the reaction is immediate: something is wrong. This feels unfair.

Now imagine your boss responds, “You’re already making good money. Relax.” That does not calm the situation. It makes it worse. Because the issue was never just the money. It was the signal the difference sends. The gap suggests that you are valued less, that you occupy a lower rung, even if your absolute income is high.

The anger that follows is not about deprivation. It is about status. It is the feeling of being diminished, of being treated as less than others who are, in principle, your equals.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Important information for anyone, including @nicksortor, who may be on the ground tonight: a different group is reportedly organizing this evening’s Delany Hall protest activity, one with ties to DSA.

This is organized by Palestine Solidarity Working Group, not Cosecha. These are not the institutionally trained "nonviolent" activists like with the prior protests. These are far-left, revolutionary-minded activists who have foreign terrorism sympathies.

Of course, that it's being organized by extremists wasn't enough to deter other NGOs (we suspect National Lawyers Guild) from offering "jail support" to them. They always stick together.

Pray for the safety of all tonight.

[𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣³ ♂🃏 @VBaker111]

@T00ManyCommies 😂
Youngins have a way of humbling all of us.

[𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣³ ♂🃏 @VBaker111]

@KimuraTodayToo

[SUMO_木村政論之助 🇯🇵 @KimuraTodayToo]

Japan sends first-graders to school alone.

Thirty minutes. Intersections. Train platforms.
Six-year-olds.

No bus. No parent drop-off.
Just small groups — older kids up front, youngest in back.
They call it tōkoban. It's worked for decades.

The idea isn't "Japan is safe."
It's this:

Children become capable
by being trusted with real things
before they feel ready.

In the U.S., parents get reported to child services
for letting a 10-year-old walk to a park alone.

Same planet.
Different idea of what a child is.

Would you let your six-year-old walk 30 minutes to school —
and if not, what age would feel okay?

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, this is actually insane.

Japan’s Children and Family Agency decided that people on welfare can get IVF (in vitro fertilization) for free as part of their “anti-low birth rate” measures.

Now foreign welfare recipients — including young people in their 20s — are flooding fertility clinics and demanding expensive IVF treatments right away.

Meanwhile, young Japanese couples are struggling with the high costs of fertility treatment and many are giving up on having kids.

So let me get this straight:

Japanese taxpayers are funding free IVF for foreigners on welfare, while actual Japanese people who work and pay taxes can’t afford it themselves.

This is the “solution” to Japan’s declining birth rate?

We’re literally using Japanese tax money to help non-working foreigners have more kids, while making it harder for Japanese people to have children.

How is this not completely backwards?

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

🇯🇵 Japanese person:
“Our country uses taxes taken from its own citizens to support even foreigners who cause problems.”

🇰🇷 Reaction from Asia:
“Yeah, same here.”

🇺🇸 Reaction from America:
“Same here too.”

🇪🇺Reaction from Europe:
“Same here.”

Seriously… what the hell is happening around the world?

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

Kittens know.

Low-elastic biological tissue
doesn’t reject pressure.
It receives it, disperses it,
and responds with a slight delay
through viscoelasticity.

What comes back
can’t be measured.
Comfort.

[𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣³ ♂🃏 @VBaker111]

RT @DOGE: 1. Lame joke, Commdani.
2. Stay far away from the Garden for the next few weeks; we’ll buy you all the Citi Field tickets your co…

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Tokyo.

8 AM rush hour.

A train packed shoulder to shoulder. Nobody talks.

A phone rings. Three people flinch.

Foreigners who actually live in Japan say the same thing again and again.

Race barely registers here.

Not avoided. Just absent.

Bump someone and walk past in silence.
Talk loudly on a quiet car.
Skip a clean queue.

The temperature in the room drops in seconds.

Race is faint.

Manners are sacred.

[𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣³ ♂🃏 @VBaker111]

@japan_nobunaga Japan must be very particular about who they let in to stay.

[Handre @Handre]

The Holodomor proves what free market economists have been saying for a century: when you kill price signals, you kill people. Soviet central planners deliberately starved 5 to 7 million Ukrainians and other Soviet citizens in 1932-33, all while exporting grain to maintain their political image abroad.

Stalin's regime had already collectivized agriculture, destroying the kulaks who actually knew how to farm efficiently. Without private property rights or market prices to coordinate production, Soviet agriculture collapsed into chronic shortages. The party then doubled down and seized whatever grain remained from starving peasants.

You can see the pure evil of central planning in the details. While Ukrainians ate bark and grass, Stalin exported 1.7 million tons of grain in 1933 alone. His officials knew exactly what they were doing: they confiscated seed grain needed for the next harvest and posted guards around collective farms to prevent anyone from leaving to find food elsewhere.

The Soviet state created artificial scarcity through price controls, production quotas, and the systematic elimination of private farming. When reality conflicted with their economic plan, they chose to let millions die rather than admit that markets work and socialism kills.

Yet you still hear people today defending "democratic socialism" or claiming central planning just needs better implementation. Every single time someone argues for price controls or government management of food distribution, they're advocating for the same mechanism that murdered those 7 million souls.

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

Several serving and former Hampshire Police Officers have told me that ‘we had it drummed into us about our white privilege and unconscious bias’.

Training was outsourced to a third party company and the trainer ‘was deeply hateful of white people and our culture.’

Officers have reported to me about being furious but unable to complain out of fear for their jobs.

This is exactly why I blocked the Race Action Plan as Home Secretary.

It is disgraceful that this stuff went on in policing. And the PCC and CC need to be held to account.

[𝕍𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝔹𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣³ ♂🃏 @VBaker111]

@FearTheFloof

[Khan Noonien Singh @wtfcetialpha5]

You only think about yourselves.