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Elder Quentin L. Cook is not wrong (obviously) about the personal spiritual dangers of anonymity online. I am absolutely a worse person as a result of my anonymous identity. But also, this is how Western civilization has been bullied into becoming a gay Islamo-fascist nightmare where only the right type of speech is tolerated, and anyone with a countering opinion is harassed, doxxed, canceled, and, in some cases, imprisoned. I’m convinced that the LDS Church and our leaders are intent on sitting on their hands as the world descends into an utter hellscape, with smiles on their faces, spreading a milquetoast message of love and niceness while deliberately avoiding any position that might offend anyone or get the Church into legal trouble. Meanwhile, they avoid directly addressing or exposing the obvious globalist secret combination we were warned about in the Book of Mormon, which is encircling the entire earth with its snares and threatening the destruction of humanity (and particularly the United States). This might come across as a critique of the leadership or as apostasy. It isn’t. In fact, I know they are right when it comes to teaching us the principles that will save us eternally. I know their steer is consistent with the Savior’s charge to turn the other cheek and love those who despitefully use us. I’m just verbally processing and coming to the realization that my family and I may end up in a gulag or, God forbid, a human bonfire like the poor women and children of Ammonihah we read about in Alma 14. I just wish there were more we were doing to go on the offensive, channeling a little more captain Moroni, to prevent our inevitable fate and destruction rather than lying down with suicidal empathy for people who literally want to murder us.

There's a saying on American social media: "Be the American that Japanese people think you are." I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life. So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room. "When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38) "An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61) "If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45) "At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio) "A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21) "At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70) "American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33) "I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48) "When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39) "They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66) And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country. "Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing. The people running toward it. There are always so many." So, America. You don't have to become the Americans we think you are. We're not imagining you. We're remembering you.

We have the recipes, heretic. You aren't fooling anyone.

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