In an actual functional society, you just expect things to work. One guy turns up to fix something as soon as it breaks. Having 5 dudes and the mayor turn up for a photo op is how the 3rd world operates.
🚨 BREAKING: I’ve received confirmation from the Trump Administration that the DOJ will NOT appeal our historic court victory against the NFA.
THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP and Attorney General Blanche, for delivering the most significant Second Amendment win in OVER 90 YEARS!
PewDiePie, of all people, proved this by simply drawing for less than an hour every day for 100 days and improving
People who cry about natural talent just don't want to acknowledge the effort people put into improving
In 1998, a Japanese anime called Cowboy Bebop premiered on TV Tokyo. It was so dark and adult that the network only aired 12 of the 26 episodes. The rest never made it to broadcast.
Three years later, an American channel called Cartoon Network picked it up. They put it on at midnight, as the first anime ever shown on their adult programming block.
It became one of the most influential anime series of a generation.
Cowboy Bebop was supposed to be a toy commercial. When the production studio Bandai gave director Shinichiro Watanabe the green light, they had one condition: include spaceships they could turn into toys. Watanabe took the money and made a hardboiled, jazz-scored, neo-noir series about depressed bounty hunters in space, drinking and dying. The toy department pulled out of the project. A different branch of Bandai picked up the bill.
The show fused American jazz, American westerns, American film noir, Hong Kong action movies, and Japanese cyberpunk. Then it was sent to Japan. Then it failed.
When it landed on American TV three years later, it landed in front of an audience already trained on every reference it was making. Adults who watched film noir as kids. Jazz fans who recognized every saxophone line. Western fans who could spot a Sergio Leone homage from a mile away.
For a generation of American kids who came of age in the early 2000s, Cowboy Bebop was the first anime that felt made for adults. Many of them never got over it.
Today, its DNA shows up in Firefly, in Guardians of the Galaxy, in most American space westerns of the last twenty years. Critics still argue about how direct the influence was. Fans stopped arguing years ago.
Yoko Kanno, the composer, is now treated like a god in Western jazz circles.
Spike Spiegel, the main character, has a name that sounds Jewish-American, a face modeled on a Japanese actor, and an English voice by an American voice actor. He's one of the most recognized anime characters in the world.
A Japanese anime that tried to be American.
Failed in Japan.
Became American.
And came home only as legend.
🚨 NOW: Karoline Leavitt just dropped this statement ahead of her stepping down from White House press secretary at the end of the month
"Our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party that seeks to destroy everything great about America, and I believe it is incumbent upon all of us who care about this country to fight back against that threat. My fight is entering a new phase, but it is far from over." 🔥
"I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary — and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life." ❤️
"President Trump has asked me to continue serving as a top advisor to him on the outside, and I will always remain a vocal advocate for MAGA and the Republican Party."
One of the best press secretaries in HISTORY!
Brown immigrants who say they hate White people when you tell them they’re gonna be deported back to their own country filled with their own kind without any White people: