A Japanese politician says she received more than 8,000 death threats after proposing free sanitary pads in public toilets. Ayaka Yoshida, a 27-year-old member of the Japanese Communist Party, posted on X on 25 March that she had "suddenly got my period today and it was a problem". "I want sanitary napkins to be available everywhere, like toilet paper."
Thats such an insane over reaction that its unbelievable, and yeah all 8000 were the same message sent by the same person from the same email address, still disturbing but while technically true the headline implies something entirely different from the actual story.
As much as I’d love to shit on Japan, that headline is basically a lie, even if true.
The implication of receiving 8000 messages is that thousands of people sent those messages, not one dude running a bash script.
If that’s true then the headline is more insane than the actual news.
The incel emperor.
Damn, I was about to wonder what the fuck was going in Japan.
Happy to hear this. Otherwise I would have been shocked.