LightNews LightNews
@brokenquasar.bsky.social
6 followers 41 following 87 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pretty sure she said she could see it from *her house*.
Former Gov. Sarah Palin famously said she could “see Russia” from Alaska. “Saturday Night Live” mocked her, but Palin wasn’t wrong: Russia and Alaska are only 2.4 miles apart. You could walk that far in less than an hour. Maybe that’s why Trump and Vladimir Putin chose the state for their confab tomorrow.
August 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Noah Smith just casually dropping far right memes in his article on Japan immigration. The context of the article seems to imply he thinks this is because immigrants have a more violent culture, somehow. WTAF.
At that point, will acculturation to low crime rates break down? That’s probably what happened in France, where “banlieue” immigrant neighborhoods are high in crime and have seen frequent rioting, despite the overall peacefulness of the country. It would be a shame to see Japan forced to become like France, with guards armed with machine guns standing on street corners. The loss of the ability of women and children to walk safely alone at night in urban areas would be a tragedy. The scary thing here is that we don’t really know if this will happen, or how much immigration it would take to bring it about…and we won’t ever know, unless and until we wake up and find that it’s already too late.
August 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM