Every winter, Mount Zao in Yamagata quietly stages one of Earth’s most surreal shows: an entire mountainside of trees transforms into a frozen army of “snow monsters.”
These aren’t sculptures. They’re Maries’ fir trees that get ambushed by Siberian winds carrying supercooled water drople on contact, building layer after layer of rime ice while snow piles on top. The result? Hulking, ghostly white figures—some towering and rounded, others spindly and outstretched—that look like they wandered out of a Studio Ghibli fever dream or a Japanese folklore nightmare.
From late January through February they hit peak form. Ride the Zao Ropeway up from the onsen town and you step into a landscape that feels alien: endless white giants standing in ranks under a hard blue sky, or looming through fog like something ancient and half-awake. At night during the light-up season they glow in shifting colors, turning the ridge into a frozen theater.
You can ski and snowboard between them. The runs cut through the formations, so you’re carving powder while these silent white shapes watch from both sides. Afterward, drop into Zao Onsen—hot springs with a 1,900-year history and water so acidic it practically announces itself. Few places let you go from otherworldly ice forest to sulfur baths in the same afternoon.
Outside winter the mountain flips the script. The Okama crater lake (Goshikinuma, the “Five Color Pond”) sits in a volcanic bowl and shifts between emerald, turquoise, and deeper greens depending on the light and weather. It’s one of those rare places that feels equally powerful in powder and in summer greenery.
Mount Zao doesn’t just get snow. It performs with it—turning ordinary conifers into something that stops people mid-sentence. If you want Japan’s winter to feel like a different planet, this is the mountain that does it.
These aren’t sculptures. They’re Maries’ fir trees that get ambushed by Siberian winds carrying supercooled water drople on contact, building layer after layer of rime ice while snow piles on top. The result? Hulking, ghostly white figures—some towering and rounded, others spindly and outstretched—that look like they wandered out of a Studio Ghibli fever dream or a Japanese folklore nightmare.
From late January through February they hit peak form. Ride the Zao Ropeway up from the onsen town and you step into a landscape that feels alien: endless white giants standing in ranks under a hard blue sky, or looming through fog like something ancient and half-awake. At night during the light-up season they glow in shifting colors, turning the ridge into a frozen theater.
You can ski and snowboard between them. The runs cut through the formations, so you’re carving powder while these silent white shapes watch from both sides. Afterward, drop into Zao Onsen—hot springs with a 1,900-year history and water so acidic it practically announces itself. Few places let you go from otherworldly ice forest to sulfur baths in the same afternoon.
Outside winter the mountain flips the script. The Okama crater lake (Goshikinuma, the “Five Color Pond”) sits in a volcanic bowl and shifts between emerald, turquoise, and deeper greens depending on the light and weather. It’s one of those rare places that feels equally powerful in powder and in summer greenery.
Mount Zao doesn’t just get snow. It performs with it—turning ordinary conifers into something that stops people mid-sentence. If you want Japan’s winter to feel like a different planet, this is the mountain that does it.
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@kevinnbass If Democrats win
UNCHECKED MASS IMMIGRATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION IS NATIONAL SUICIDE
The rapid importation of over 15 million illegal immigrants in just a few years imposes an overwhelming and unsustainable burden on any nation’s finite resources and infrastructure. Schools, hospitals, housing, suddenly flooded beyond capacity, leading to overcrowded classrooms, emergency-room backlogs, skyrocketing rents, and crumbling public services that citizens themselves rely upon. Taxpayers bear the crushing fiscal cost of educating, housing, and medically treating millions who often pay little or no taxes while competing directly with low-skilled native workers for jobs, which drives down wages and employment opportunities in those sectors. Without meaningful vetting or integration requirements, this scale of influx also strains law enforcement and border security, introducing elevated risks of crime, gang infiltration, drug trafficking, and public-safety breakdowns that erode the very stability that made the country desirable in the first place.
Even more damaging is the long-term erosion of social cohesion, national identity, and the rule of law itself. Such an unprecedented demographic transformation occurs too quickly for genuine assimilation, breeding parallel societies, cultural fragmentation, and plummeting trust among citizens who feel their shared values and way of life are being overwritten without their consent. It rewards law-breaking over orderly legal immigration, signaling weak sovereignty and encouraging endless future waves that further destabilize communities. Over time, this dynamic fuels deep political polarization, resentment, and institutional decay, ultimately threatening the prosperity, security, and unified purpose that once defined the nation and attracted immigrants to begin with.
A thread on illegal immigration👇
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@kevinnbass If Democrats get into power
@dbongino @Brick_Suit @ValentinaForUSA Haiti 🇭🇹 total population is 11.8 million.
Around 5% of the Haitian population (600,000) has now migrated to the United States over the past four years under the Harris-Biden administration.
THIS IS NOT IMMIGRATION
THIS IS AN ACT OF INVASION
Video: @ianmiles
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@kevinnbass If Democrats get into power
If Democrats ever retake the United States Senate, the filibuster is gone anyway.
Day one
No debate
No hesitation
Pack the Supreme Courts
Erase every institutional guardrail
‼️‼️‼️ DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM‼️‼️‼️
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@kevinnbass If Democrats get into power
Nancy Pelosi — “If we win the Senate, we will get rid of the 60 vote rule and pass it with 51 votes.”
If they win… the Democrats will immediately nuke the filibuster, open borders and destroy America if they can cheat their way into power again.
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Most of the 200+ neoclouds are going to die 😱
Pretty much.
As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.
That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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There’s clearly election fraud in USA
Here’s why American elections are corrupt and fraudulent at the highest levels.
Some liberal states don’t enforce voter id rules. They don’t even announce their election results in 3 weeks after the elections.
🚩Here are some countries that Enforce Voter ID Rules:
1. s must present a valid Documento Nacional de Identidad to vote.
2. **Mexico** - Voters must show a voter ID card which includes a hologram, photo, and other security features.
3. **Czech Republic** - Voters need to present an eligible form of photo ID like a passport or national identity card at the polling station.
4. **Estonia** - Although primarily known for online voting, each citizen has an electronic ID card which can be used for verification.
5. **Belgium** - While electronic voting is used, voters still need to present an ID when voting.
6. **Norway** - Voters must provide valid identification like a passport or driver's license.
7. **Switzerland** - For in-person voting, ID and a state-issued polling card are required.
8. **France** - Voters need to present their voter ID.
9. **Israel** - A voter ID is required to vote.
10. **Iceland** - Voters are required to present identification.
11. **Greece** - Voter ID is necessary to vote in elections.
This list was not exhaustive, but it includes several countries where voter ID laws are known to be enforced.
🚩Here are a few countries Known for Counting All Their Votes in a Single Day:
- **India** - India is the largest democracy in the world with over 1.5 billion people and they finished counting ballots in a day
- **Estonia** - While voting occurs over several days online, the counting of all votes is finalized on election day.
- **Australia** - Votes are counted and results can often be determined on election night, although some postal votes might delay final results slightly.
- **France** - Most votes are counted on the same day, with results often announced late into the night or the following day for very close races.
- **Belgium** - Voting and counting typically occur on the same day, with quick result announcements.
A thread on US election fraud👇
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@EndWokeness Clear election fraud
@elonmusk Unless you get to the bottom of this 81 million vote corruption
This can happen anytime in the future
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🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 retweeted
The curious thing about change is that people assume it automatically means “better.”
It doesn’t.
Change has no direction. It can just as easily be for the worse. Much worse.
It doesn’t.
Change has no direction. It can just as easily be for the worse. Much worse.
It's time for a change.
Vote for leaders like @AbdulElSayed and @JocelynBenson who will work every day to make this country better.
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@EndWokeness The bitter truth
It’s a shame that a first world developed country like United States still doesn’t mandate Voter ID
Need ID to buy a beer
Need ID to enter Costco
Need ID to travel by air
Need ID for a bank account
Need ID for driving
Need ID to buy cigarettes/tobacco
Need ID to rent a car
hotel
Need ID to purchase a firearm
Need ID to apply for a job
Need ID to open a credit card or a loan
Need ID to enter a casino or gamble
Need ID to pick up prescriptions
Need ID to get a marriage license
Need ID to cross an international border
Need ID to board a cruise ship or a flight
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But you don’t need an ID to vote
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@EndWokeness Exactly 👍
CALIFORNIA CORRUPT ELECTIONS ARE WORSE THAN IN A THIRD WORLD BANANA REPUBLIC
In Democrat-run states like California, the spectacle of election officials taking weeks or even months to “count” votes long after polls close is an embarrassment that makes third-world banana republics look like models parency. While impoverished nations with threadbare infrastructure routinely tabulate every ballot on election night under the watchful eyes of rival parties and international observers, America’s blue strongholds cite mail-in ballots, “curing,” and provisional paperwork as reasons to keep counting indefinitely. The result is not meticulous accuracy but a slow-motion erosion of public trust, turning a fundamental democratic act into a prolonged, opaque process that no voter can confidently monitor in real time.
Worse still are the infamous late-night “spikes” that appear only after Republican leads have been reported—sudden dumps of thousands of ballots that overwhelmingly and improbably favor Democrats. These surges materialize in the dead of night or early morning, often from a handful of urban precincts or centralized counting centers, defying statistical expectations and common sense. When every other vote category has already been counted, the only ballots left somehow break 80-90 percent for one party, flipping races that looked decided hours earlier. No serious democracy tolerates such predictable, one-sided miracles; only states run by Democrats treat them as routine.
Pic: @PlanetOfMemes
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It’s a shame that a first world developed country like United States still doesn’t mandate Voter ID
Need ID to buy a beer
Need ID to enter Costco
Need ID to travel by air
Need ID for a bank account
Need ID for driving
Need ID to buy cigarettes/tobacco
Need ID to rent a car
hotel
Need ID to purchase a firearm
Need ID to apply for a job
Need ID to open a credit card or a loan
Need ID to enter a casino or gamble
Need ID to pick up prescriptions
Need ID to get a marriage license
Need ID to cross an international border
Need ID to board a cruise ship or a flight
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But you don’t need an ID to vote
Need ID to buy a beer
Need ID to enter Costco
Need ID to travel by air
Need ID for a bank account
Need ID for driving
Need ID to buy cigarettes/tobacco
Need ID to rent a car
hotel
Need ID to purchase a firearm
Need ID to apply for a job
Need ID to open a credit card or a loan
Need ID to enter a casino or gamble
Need ID to pick up prescriptions
Need ID to get a marriage license
Need ID to cross an international border
Need ID to board a cruise ship or a flight
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But you don’t need an ID to vote
No ID is required to vote in New York State or California
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It’s a shame that a first world developed country like United States still doesn’t mandate Voter ID
Need id to buy beer
Need id to enter Costco
Need id to travel by air
Need id for a bank account
Need id for driving
Need ID to buy cigarettes/tobacco
Need ID to rent a car
Need ID to check intrchase a firearm
Need ID to apply for a job
Need ID to open a credit card or a loan
Need ID to enter a casino or gamble
Need ID to pick up prescriptions
Need ID to get a marriage license
Need ID to cross an international border
Need ID to board a cruise ship or a flight
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But you don’t need an ID to vote
Need id to buy beer
Need id to enter Costco
Need id to travel by air
Need id for a bank account
Need id for driving
Need ID to buy cigarettes/tobacco
Need ID to rent a car
Need ID to check intrchase a firearm
Need ID to apply for a job
Need ID to open a credit card or a loan
Need ID to enter a casino or gamble
Need ID to pick up prescriptions
Need ID to get a marriage license
Need ID to cross an international border
Need ID to board a cruise ship or a flight
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But you don’t need an ID to vote
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@mayemusk It’s crazy to say America still doesn’t have Voter ID
Please make this make sense
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@mayemusk It’s bonkers they still don’t require voter ID in New York or California
DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT HYPOCRITES
In 2021 they told you a government card was the price of a normal life. No card, no restaurant, no concert, no job, no flight. The people who couldn’t produce one were not victims. They were the problem.
In 2026 the same people say a government st.
Not inconvenient. Not fixable with free IDs. Racist.
You already need that card to buy beer, cash a check, pick up a prescription, or board a plane. None of that was called Jim Crow. Only the ballot was. The rule did not change because the card got harder to get. It changed because the activity being gated stopped helping them.
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