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@loomdoop You are required by federal law to be paid for jury duty you fucking retard.

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@Wider_Ape0416 @etonewowo Name a single fucking country with clean hands.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.

The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.

Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.

Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.

Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.

These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.

So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.

114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.

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@lebanesesami You’ve got a cross in the picture on your profile. Did you know Egypt doesn’t allow Christians on the national team? You fucking troglodyte.

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@keithdorejel We need to do everything in our power to
Keep millennials from office.

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@garibansipsi Turk

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@AL_Elects Your right. import another billion Haitians that’s exactly what they meant by this.

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@actingliketommy “Other workers”

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@Kylesweetser Free market capitalism hallowed out American industrial capacity. Fuck you.

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@robbysoave I actually do hate the people who shipped all the jobs overseas and hallowed the American industrial base you would be correct.

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@solduceaurelian French

[the @Amanseeks]

We’re gonna hook up Gabe Newell like this to make sure steam never sells out

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@Reggie71bc @jeremysmiles Socioeconomic factors my fist up your asshole.

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@Reggie71bc @jeremysmiles Lmao ok goat fucker. 9/11 justifys killing those people then. You stupid fucking monkey.

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@Reggie71bc @jeremysmiles No shit you fucking knuckle dragger. That’s why it’s retarded. Open the schools you illiterate goat fuckers can’t read.

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@JustSnacking69 @jeremysmiles Why the fuck would the Taliban attack us for invading Iraq? Saddam Hussein didn’t like them? Why the fuck didn’t the Taliban fly planes into the middle of Moscow?

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@AFPMain Alright man let’s not act like pigeon forge is nice.