I lived in Japan for a year. Most of my experiences were exhausting in ways I’d rather not get into, but this one still makes me laugh.
I was on the train in Osaka, minding my own business, when I noticed a group of school kids a few seats down. They were whispering, glancing at me, then whispering again. They kept passing a folded piece of paper between them as if they were planning something top secret.
I watched this go on for two stops.
Finally, one of the kids was pushed forward by the others. He walked over to me slowly, like he was approaching a wild animal that might bite. He stopped right in front of me, bowed politely, and held out the folded paper with both hands.
I opened it.
Inside was a handwritten note in careful English: “Hello. We think you are a very cool person. We are practicing our English. We hope this note is correct. Please give us a score.”
At the bottom, they had drawn a literal grading box, out of ten.
I looked up. Seven pairs of eyes were staring at me as if their entire semester depended on my response.
I pulled out a pen, wrote “10/10” in the box, and added a note: “Perfect English. Well done.”
The boy carried it back to the group. They read it together… and absolutely lost their minds. High-fives, jumping, and one kid even pumped his fist in the air.
Their teacher, who had been pretending not to watch from the end of the car, was biting her lip, trying hard not to smile.
I rode the rest of the journey grinning to myself.
That’s the Japan I always remember.
A woman posted a video of the moment she was attacked by her domestic cat. Why did it attack her with such ferocity?
Note: Before the attack, the cat seemed to smell something that prompted her to attack.
“The American ppl are very much like the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living & don’t want to know, but then they wonder why someone just threw a firebomb thru the living room window. This is exactly who we are”
—Bill Blum,
🚨 A Palestinian mom was shot point blank in her head by IDF soldiers while she was carrying her child.
Retweet and expose Israel if you have a little Humanity left in you.
“Are you an IDF soldier?”
🇮🇱: “Yes”
“You K!LLED four Palestinians?”
🇮🇱: “Only four, man. It's only four.”
“But you K!LLED four persons.”
🇮🇱: “No, children, not persons.”
“You K!LLED four children?”
🇮🇱: “Only four, You're missing the (word) only.”
Trump is not America gone wrong.
He is America gone honest.
A nation built on stolen land, slave labor, permanent war, and industrial myth was never going to age into wisdom.
It was always going to rot into narcissism.
It was always going to confuse bullying with leadership.
It was always going to mistake wealth for virtue and violence for destiny.
Trump is that rot speaking in capital letters.
Americans love to ask, "Why do they hate us."
As if the answer is not obvious.
You bomb their countries.
You steal their resources.
You call their dead "collateral."
You starve their children with sanctions, then film commercials about charity.
The real question is not why others hate you.
The real question is how you still love yourselves.
There is something deeply grotesque about a society that calls itself "the land of the free"
while operating the largest prison system on Earth.
That calls itself "defender of democracy"
while sabotaging elections abroad.
That cries about "terror"
while dropping bombs on schools and weddings.
You try to point this out,
and somehow you become the extremist.
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“If you do this for a month, I guarantee you you’re going to have 20 to 30 fantastic business ideas.”
The US 🇺🇸 could kill millions of people with a nuclear bomb and ordinary Americans wouldn't do a damn thing until that same government takes away their TV and refrigerator.
“We are the only ones who can have nuclear weapons. And long range missiles. Because we are the only ones the world should trust to not use them. Even though we’re the ones who have used them the most. Lmao.
They keep mistaking Iran for a state.
It is not just a state.
It is a civilization with nerves of steel and memory older than their empires.
You do not frighten a people who have already buried kings, invaders, sanctions, and lies.
You only remind them who they are.