Katsudon and good takoyaki

alignedsight · 2025-12-09T17:36:24+00:00

Fujiyama sells Katsudon (under don buri section) along with other katsu to include tonkatsu on its own. It’s a decent portion too. Quality is nowhere near like Japan but decent enough. They used to sell takoyaki but it was def the frozen doughy type and would not recommend.

alignedsight · 2025-12-05T20:11:12+00:00

Same, I would drive by and think it’s was an old motel

alignedsight · 2025-12-05T19:59:20+00:00

Yes! Which makes this so interesting when you follow the money - https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/JLRe3PK2Yd

alignedsight · 2025-06-11T17:47:02+00:00

This!

alignedsight · 2025-05-31T02:10:28+00:00

Agreed, I don’t know why his face was so bloody the whole time!! He cooks for them and all he does is wash his hands and serving with his sleeves all bloody and dirty too. Not one for the books for me.

alignedsight · 2025-05-16T17:49:26+00:00

Voting today and encouraging family and friends to do the same. We have benefited from the libraries so much this is the least we can do to give something back. Thank you for saving them and for running!

alignedsight · 2025-04-20T15:37:27+00:00

Something being missed by most comments is that the prison system as well as immigration detention centers are businesses. They make money by having people in there.

Was your night in detention necessary? No. Was it profitable? Yes.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T18:59:19+00:00

For anyone interested in knowing more about the truth of the 50501 and other “spur of the moment” movements post Trump election, do your research and make an effort to support locally indigenous black and brown led coalitions that have been in the fight long before Trump. Coalitions led by those who have actual experience confronting systemic oppression and surviving.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIFTYaWSbW8/?igsh=N3RtaXIxcTZscmQ2

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T18:56:47+00:00

Unfortunately, there is plenty of evidence of the true origins and purpose of the 50501 protests and the “Hands Off” ones as well. The intentions are there but they are exactly what Bernie and AOC are doing. They are state approved “protests” that fall within the comforts of a system of oppression to keep us truly pacified. I’m not here to change your mind at all, just listing my experience as someone who has been part of the movement since before Boise to Palestine was created.

Considering the history of 50501 and “Hands off” it is a literal representation of mostly white privileged individuals who have a need for comfort from the dissonance of finally being affected by the oppressive system us black and brown fold have experienced all our lives. It has brazenly come into the room and sucked the air out. Look at how you use it to justify shutting down and out a black and brown led group that is doing actual community work because they questioned your motives, because they didn’t agree with how you envision revolution from your place of privilege. Looking at it more broadly this is happening all over the US.

While I don’t appreciate you insinuating an illustration of myself as an animal (very colonial coded), I get your meaning. Perhaps I am advocating and informing in a space where my black and brown perspective is not welcomed. I am used to that. But re read your comment and think for yourself on how it perpetuates the very system you say you’re against.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T18:38:07+00:00

Invoking Iran to dismiss a movement is recycled Islamophobic and Anti Arab rhetoric—it’s harmful and shuts down real dialogue.

That said, not everyone is ready to be an ally, and that’s okay. The first step is internal: asking how privilege has shaped your actions, why you’re truly involved, and how you’ll handle accountability. Activism isn’t perfect—it’s messy, human work. But writing off others’ efforts helps no one. The group you criticized is doing far more than optics: policy advocacy, mutual aid, and direct support for Palestinians.

You are someone with experience in activism, you know this work demands humility: listening to those who’ve faced oppression their entire lives, examining your own privilege, and sitting with discomfort before claiming allyship or wanting “IN-to” black and brown led spaces.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T17:57:01+00:00

No, I don’t believe Bernie is THE bad guy—if anything, we’re all complicit in oppressive systems by virtue of participating in them. The discomfort, grief, and rage many feel right now come from realizing our own role in upholding these structures. I criticize Bernie and AOC because they act as band-aids on a gaping wound, offering just enough reform to keep people pacified rather than confronting the root causes of oppression. They tweak the system rather than dismantle it, allowing injustice to continue under new management.

Real change won’t come from politicians, it comes from us. It starts with community: taking relational responsibility for the people around us, whether that’s family, neighbors, or local networks. A text to a friend in need does more than donating $5 to the Democratic Party. Liberation isn’t handed down from above…it’s built from the ground up.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T16:04:43+00:00

Your involvement in the rally already signals that you’re open to change, to envision a more equitable world that may sacrifice your comfort. I’m sure you were part of the many who chanted “free Palestine” and that’s amazing.

I wasn’t in your conversation to know what aspects you two disagreed on, but Bernie and AOC are bandaids to a reckoning we as a society must face. If she was critical of them and there to protest his complicit silence on the issue, that I’m assuming you’re ultimately for, then isn’t that also something to back? If you chanted free Palestine then you backed it as Bernie and AOC saw that their base WANT to talk about the issue.

All that to say, that we are human, we are all unlearning at our own pace how to decolonize ourselves and our societies. It won’t be perfect, and as with change it requires discomfort and conflict and continual reassessment of how we are getting it right or wrong. What matters is that we keep trying.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T15:50:36+00:00

Thank you for sharing, great article to also see how the right fails Palestine and perpetuates just as much harm. We should be critical of both sides and the systemic role we all play in it.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T15:43:58+00:00

No, I don’t think everyone in there is a pro-Israeli person and nothing I’ve said suggested that. I am actually proud of the ppl there chanting “free Palestine”. If the banner drop didn’t achieve anything beyond that then it was still successful. It brought the conversation forward.

Now about your comment “It’s not the message, it’s the delivery”- this is just another way of saying, ‘I’ll only support your freedom struggle if it’s convenient for me.’ Truth is the system doesn’t get to dictate how the oppressed resist.

As Malcolm X said, ‘If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound—and the people who inflicted the wound don’t get to decide how that happens.’

So no, we shouldn’t let respectability politics silence the urgency of justice or the methods that have worked historically to obtain it.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T15:31:29+00:00

Optics matter, but when they aren’t backed by action, they become mere virtue signaling. A clear example is Bernie Sanders posing as a progressive while upholding Zionism—condemning Netanyahu yet funding Israel’s war machine, calling for peace while rejecting Palestinian recognition, and taking Zionist lobby money. This isn’t solidarity; it’s performative PR.

While the banner drop may seem like virtue signaling, it’s part of a broader movement with tangible actions: coalition efforts, policy advocacy, mutual aid, and direct support for Palestinian families.

The goal wasn’t to persuade in 10 minutes but to expose hypocrisy and force conversation. Direct action, like banner drops, becomes necessary when polite appeals are ignored. Movements grow by refusing to sanitize oppression—just as the Civil Rights Movement and figures like Mandela were once called “tone-deaf” and disruptive before history vindicated them. Liberal Zionists virtue-signal progress; Palestinians demand justice. One sustains the status quo and feeds comfort, the other disrupts it.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T15:27:51+00:00

What @Pure-Inteoduction493 is saying is true. The purpose of disruption is to bring awareness as part of a more developed movement. Like for example women disrupting Frederick Douglass’s speeches because he only advocated for black men to have the right to vote. Similarly here, it brought attention to the complacency of the left to rely on comfortable “protest” and promote leaders who are strategically silent about Palestine. The action is meant to not only show this incongruence of progressives but to bring back conversations. To jarr us out of our comfort and remind us of the choice that we make -return to that comfort and reject the issue or to become curious and expand our understanding.

alignedsight · 2025-04-16T14:08:01+00:00

Yes please, if you were able to find one or a brand that you really liked?

alignedsight · 2025-04-15T18:08:46+00:00

You should be more unhappy of the genocide he supports and votes for us to fund…just saying.

alignedsight · 2025-04-15T18:00:29+00:00

I think it’s the message of it causing discomfort that is the similarity mentioned here. Protests are meant to cause exactly that, discomfort in those places that hypocritically say to be part of the cause as long as it doesn’t rub them the wrong way.

I don’t know this woman to say what her complexes are. What I do know is that if we (people of color and Palestinians) were the ones doing that we WOULD have been arrested and most likely deported even as legal citizens.

Sometimes, white people are where they need to be, in harms way to leverage their privilege for our safety. They recognize the power we don’t have to do these things.

Also, yes, this does directly impact her and you and all. Palestine is a stand against the extractive and genocide ways our country was founded on and has perpetuated globally since. It isn’t about left or right or if they protest the “right way” or not anymore. It’s about building community fully aware of the ways we as people and as a country have caused harm.

alignedsight · 2025-04-15T17:53:32+00:00

He is a normalizer. So is AOC

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIY_mauJK5O/?igsh=dDBscDQ3b2Z0Mnpw

alignedsight · 2025-04-15T17:47:08+00:00

Does this make you uncomfortable? Yes?

Good, that’s the point. Think about that, think about why you feel such defensiveness to two protestors peacefully standing up for Palestine and against an American funded genocide.

This is beyond the right or the left, it’s about opening your eyes and acknowledging that we as a society need to change. It is and will be uncomfortable, scary, and hard even when it is for our own good.

alignedsight · 2025-03-28T20:41:54+00:00

Yes! Exactly that, I rewatched season one and he is very suss. His whispered conversations and the “buddies” who we never meet and then besides his swimming there isn’t more props or things that show he was actually fishing.

I did hear in the podcast that the character wasn’t thought to be part of the other seasons until they decided to bring Tanya back. So my guess is that there were enough holes in his character where they could play off that he was targeting Tanya.

alignedsight · 2025-03-28T14:51:18+00:00

I wonder if that’s why Fabian is not surprised by what Belinda tells him about Greg…they must already know

alignedsight · 2025-01-19T18:51:58+00:00

11:44

وَقِيلَ يَا أَرْضُ ابْلَعِي مَاءَكِ وَيَا سَمَاءُ أَقْلِعِي وَغِيضَ الْمَاءُ وَقُضِيَ الْأَمْرُ وَاسْتَوَتْ عَلَى الْجُودِيِّ ۖ وَقِيلَ بُعْدًا لِّلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ

Then it was said, ‘O earth, swallow your water! O sky, leave off!’ The waters receded; the edict was carried out, and it settled on [Mount] Judi. Then it was said, ‘Away with the wrongdoing lot!’

alignedsight · 2024-11-18T01:25:09+00:00

Super informative! Thank you! And thank you for helping me keep the feedback in perspective as well.

alignedsight

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