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Genuine question: why doesn’t Nintendo sell a lot of its Japan-exclusive merchandise internationally? There’s so much merch that we can’t access but really want as customers outside of Japan. Surely it would only mean more profits for the company, which will only exceed any shipping or manufacturing costs required to make and transfer the merch to other Nintendo branches? There’s three big official physical Nintendo stores where lots of merchandise is sold and two of them are in Japan (Osaka, Tokyo) excluding the New York store. What about people who don’t even live in the US, let alone living in NYC, like us Europeans and British fans, or even people who don’t have the opportunity to travel just to go to these stores? There’s so many products that aren’t even on the My Nintendo store, even licensed products by Play-Asia and Bandai-Namco are JP exclusive, and that’s not even considering marketing campaigns such as that of Baskin Robbins and 7-11, or even fun events/tournaments to celebrate franchises or game releases. Personally, I think it would really benefit both Nintendo and its fanbase to stop the region-locking of merch.

"Gaza now has the largest population of child amputees in the world." [@/abrahammatar on X. June 5th, 2024.]

One of the things that pisses me off most about this genocide and overall occupation is how many people say it's so complicated and there's so much nuance and there isn't one easy solution. This is one of the simplest things I have ever seen. Zionists invaded palestine in 1947-48. They have occupied it for 76 years while taking more and more land. They kidnap and torture and massacre Palestinians day in day out for those 76 years. They control every aspect of Palestinian life, including their water and medical care. And now they are committing another genocide against them. Where is the complication? What is hard to understand? "Well, Jewish people need a place where they won't be discriminated against" I absolutely agree. So make every country in the world safe for Jewish people. Fight against anti Semitism across the world. Don't commit a genocide and set up an ethnostate.

Public high school students are occupying Chicago City Hall chanting “Biden Biden you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!” Students are demanding the city council vote YES on a ceasefire resolution.

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Good morning. This might be my last message from the city of Rafah. The occupation [Israel] is carrying out crazy fire. Violent belts. As you’re hearing, there are helicopters. Planes and gunfire from the vehicles. There’s a complete invasion of the city.

We don’t know what is going on in Rafah. The place that the occupation [Israel] claimed to be safe. This is happening all of a sudden; the people didn’t go out. They didn’t do anything. More than thirty targets were hit in just minutes. People were asleep. We woke up to the bombing, to the shooting from the helicopters. It was horrifying. Unacceptable. This might be my last message. Please relay it to the world.

— Hazem, journalist residing in Rafah; 02.11.2024

Rafah was Palestinians’ very last safe zone. There is quite literally nowhere else left to go. And now it’s being bombed with airstrike after airstrike.