IAmRetarded

Just another retard trying to figure things out.

[IAmRetarded @RetardedI99716]

@vasantbhatt14 "To prove we are assimilated and just as American as someone whose family has been here for hundreds of years, we must form an ethnic voting block!"

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.

I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.

Six minutes later I was holding chicken.

I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water that had somewhere to be.

A young woman walked between the cars taking orders on a small tablet, on foot, in the sun, smiling like the sun was her idea.

I said thank you.

She said, "My pleasure."

I did not think about it then. I should have.

At the window I thanked the young man for the food.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for the sauce.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for thanking me—

"My pleasure."

I want to be clear about what was happening.

This was a duel.

In Japan I trained in courtesy for forty years. Bowing angles. Seasonal greetings. The correct depth of apology for seventeen distinct situations.

I was a white belt in that drive-thru.

I escalated. I used my most formal English. I thanked him on behalf of my entire family line.

He said, "My pleasure," and gave me extra sauce.

Extra sauce. Unprovoked. A counterattack.

I returned the next day to reclaim my honor.

It was Sunday. The restaurant was closed.

All of them were closed. In the entire country. They close every Sunday, and they have closed every Sunday since the beginning, because the founder made a promise, and the promise did not expire when he did.

I stood in the empty parking lot and understood I had lost twice.

Once to a teenager with sauce.

Once to a man I will never meet, who kept his word so long it became a building.

In my country we say a samurai's word is his life.

I had never seen a restaurant say it back.

I returned Monday. I ordered. And this time I said it first, before she could.

"My pleasure."

She smiled and said, "It sure is."

America, I surrender.

It was my pleasure.

[Fog @LadiesOfReddit]

>Graham Platner says he'll pull out
>Doesn't do it
Poetry
https://t.co/WJ3oW6ZlL9

[IAmRetarded @RetardedI99716]

@IanCarrollShow If only MrBeast could weigh in on the issue, so we could know for sure what happened.

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Well well well 😂

[ELEX98 @somchair1]

@greg_price11

[Smiley @30GotNext]

Niggas were telling me we weren’t a good team LMAO??? It’s called soccer pussy

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Horrific scenes out of Burnley, England today as a 17yr old girl is stabbed in the throat in broad daylight.

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire

If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands

Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

[Elsa @elsathora]

Oh no what have I done

[IAmRetarded @RetardedI99716]

@Newsweek nigga what?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

🤷‍♂️

[Trav @effzehNSC]

England’s World Cups = 1
United States World Cups = 4

Really makes you think

[Pol Atreides @Aliathewhite]

If you are considering abortion because your child has down syndrome, please look at this first.

[Nasser @RichPianian]

Thanks for the retweet, account with 0 followers, you fucking niggеr.