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There's a lot here, but a summary and some key takeaways:
Lady is a feminist and a dominatrix. Decides she wants to fight for social justice in a small South African kingdom. Applies to the Peacecorps; is told that up to half of all Peacecorps volunteers ragequit, and is she absolutely certain she wants to continue fighting for social justice? Says yes, gets in the program, is informed on arrival that there will be no fighting for social justice, since Africans are racist and sexist and the local King will absolutely FAFO the Peacecorps if it fricks around.
Whole country is full of AIDS. 25% of all people have HIV, including 40% (yes) of all pregnant women.
Lots of little details come to light, such as:
A man killed his wife for asking him to wear a condom. Whether this is a reasonable thing to do or not is, evidently, a matter of national debate in their society.
Peacecorps volunteers can't wear anything too slutty, like mom jeans, else they might get r*ped. Having to wear a dress and not being allowed to wear jeans causes her fellow volunteers so much distress that at least one of her coworkers quits.
Libertarianism is rampant. To the point where they have billboards everywhere warning adults that fricking kids will give them AIDS.
It's not just normies, either. Apparently the King himself spotted a middleschooler he wanted to bang; her family tried to flee to England, so he had the Secret Service track her down and abduct her.
Because Africans hate hookers, Peacecorps volunteers find themselves needing to do HIV outreach work while simultaneously avoiding groups with HIV, lest they anger the locals too much.
The Peacecorps offers months of training and ideological reinforcement, but after that, has no idea what the frick it's doing. Every individual volunteer is, evidently, expected to think of something useful to do on their own, if and when they get assigned to a village; there's no "plan". Just liberal 20-somethings, abandoned amongst AIDS-riddled libertarian male feminists, with truckfulls of cash and rapidly souring views on the nobility of underprivileged Africa.
Eventually Our Heroine finds a village where hookers have formed a union, of a sorts, and is like OOO GOODY as a hooker myself, that's for me.
Unfortunately, it turns out most of the hookers aren't actually hookers. They're fake hookers, only telling the NGOs that they work as hookers because they expect government gibs earmarked for s*x workers. There is, apparently, no way of screening any of them, so everyone loots the hooker aid money and nobody cares.
But whatever, some of them are probably hookers right?
The local NGOees hit on a brilliant plan to convert the "hookers" into car wash attendants - even though there's almost no cars, and the only "road" in the community is a mud track that makes cleaning an effort in futility.
But the car wash is abandoned halfway through the building process, after the money is handed out but before anything concrete and workable is in place. Instead of waiting to finish the wash (which would have been an economic failure anyways, given the aforementioned lack of roads), the Peacecorp Kids organize a press event and take a bunch of photos to go on their resumes, before every single one of them leaves.
The half-finished car wash is abandoned and the Africans go back to hooking. Only lasting legacy are the news reports touting the success of those bright-eyed white liberals helping African hookers get on their feet.
The fact that she, also, fricked off out of Africa and cynically hates her Peacecorps work, same as the rest of the buttholes she worked with, goes unremarked.
OH, and frick Trump and Elon, they're the real problem, even though aid doesn't work it's important we support it anyway. Maybe she'll explain this in a subsequent article...?
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The boys love being under the sheets where it's warm
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Top Drama
Relative Drama (takes into account the size of the subreddit)
autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents.
Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion
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MISSION, Kan. (AP) β An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man's doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Yarl testified at a hearing that he rang the bell and then waited for someone to answer for what seemed "longer than normal." As the inner door opened, Yarl said, he reached out to grab the storm door, assuming he was at his brothers' friends' parents.
He said Lester shot him in the head and uttered, "Don't come here ever again." Although the bullet didn't penetrate Yarl's brain, the impact knocked him to the ground. Yarl said Lester then shot him in the arm. The teen was taken to the hospital and released three days later.
Imagine the terror if a Texas A&M student showed up at your door uninvited.
I love sucking peepee and seeing racist old Missourians die. Kill all Missourians, knockkers forever.
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High in the rugged mountains of Central Asia, where the wind howled through rocky crevices and the air was thin and cold, a solitary manul named Tsuruoka prowled the steppes. His thick, grayish fur rippled in the breeze, and his piercing yellow eyes scanned the terrain for movement. Tsuruoka was a skilled hunter, patient and precise, but lately, he had felt a restlessness he couldn't quite explain.
One crisp morning, as the sun cast long shadows across the barren landscape, Tsuruoka caught a scent on the windβsomething unfamiliar yet intriguing. It was faint, but it stirred something deep within him. He followed the trail, his padded feet moving silently over the rocky ground, until he reached a narrow gorge. There, perched on a ledge overlooking the valley, was another manul.
She was smaller than Tsuruoka, with a coat that shimmered silver in the sunlight. Her wide, round eyes were fixed on the horizon, and her tufted ears twitched at the sound of his approach. Tsuruoka froze, unsure of how to proceed. Manuls were solitary by nature, and encounters between them were rare.
But then she turned her head, and their eyes met. For a moment, neither moved. Then, with a soft chuff, she leaped down from the ledge and approached him cautiously. Tsuruoka's heart raced as she drew closer, her scent filling his senses. She was unlike anything he had ever encounteredβgraceful, confident, and utterly captivating.
Her name was Nana, and she had traveled far to find a new territory. As they sat together on the ledge, watching the sun dip below the horizon, Tsuruoka felt a connection he had never known before. Nana's presence was calming yet exhilarating, and he found himself drawn to her in ways he couldn't explain.
Over the following weeks, Tsuruoka and Nana explored the mountains together. They hunted side by side, their movements perfectly synchronized, and shared the warmth of their dens during the frigid nights. Tsuruoka taught Nana the secrets of the landβthe best places to find pikas, the hidden crevices where the wind couldn't reachβand Nana, in turn, brought a new energy to Tsuruoka's solitary life.
One evening, as they sat atop a high ridge, the stars stretching endlessly above them, Tsuruoka nuzzled Nana's cheek. She responded with a soft purr, leaning into him. In that moment, surrounded by the vast, untamed wilderness, they knew they had found something rare and preciousβa bond that transcended their solitary instincts.
From that day on, Tsuruoka and Nana were inseparable. Together, they navigated the challenges of their harsh environment, their love a beacon of warmth in the cold, unforgiving landscape. And though the world around them was wild and untamed, they had found a sanctuary in each other.
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And by 'destroy' I mean 'cause a nationwide blackout' and by 'monkey' I mean 'monkey'.
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WARNING THIS POST CONCERNS LEFTISTS SO EVERYTHING IS
Honestly I (f19) feel like I messed up very badly here, despite having been the "more educated" one on the topic. I blame it on my impulsivity, bad debating skills and lack of empathy, and now I regret having cut someone off too quickly. (posting from a throwaway acc. Might delete this post later). Ok, very long wall of text incoming, only read if you have time to care to hear about the troubles of a dumb leftist teen...
We got along greatly, shared a lot of hobbies and interest in the same media, she (f20) seemed to like me a lot, and I might've even developed a crush on her. But then the issue appeared when I once compared the depiction of an oppressive system from "Arcane" to what's going on in Palestine. Turns out she's "neutral", is only focused on the current war (without any regards to the broader historical context) and refuses to support a liberated Palestine bc then Hamas would rule and enforce sharia law (she's specifically concerned about the women. In her own words, she "can't support a country that treats women worse than animals") (also she spoke of Hamas as if they're the only Palestinian semi-governing power, it seems she has never heard of the PA (although I'm aware that they're collaborators of the occupation)). (Also she wrongfully regurgitated the claim that Israel is more tolerant towards other religions.) I told her, among other things, about how Israel forces all of its citizens into military training in order to maintain the occupation, but her only response to that was "yeah, I too wish they would leave the women out of the conscription", completely missing the point. I also mentioned the Nakba, but eh, to no avail. And to be fair, it was probably a mistake on my part to not provide sources right away the first time it came up. I wish I had just sent her the purplewashing-article from decolonizepalestine.com right away instead of wrestling with my weak words. And I feel like in general I didn't address her points and concerns well and precise enough, such as failing to make it clear enough that supporting Palestinian liberation has nothing to do with inherently supporting Hamas' ideology, and the reason most people (including those who'd be marginalized under them) are not condemning them right now is because they (alongside other armed groups of different ideologies) are currently the only effective resistance against Israel in Gaza. And I realize I might've made a crappy transition to that topic in the first place too, it started with me disecting the in-show argument "you're one of the good [members of an oppressed group]" and arguing that a people under occupation can't/shouldn't be separated into "good/harmless civilians" and "armed/evil terrorists", if the root cause of "terroristic actions" is oppression from an outer force and said "terrorists" are sometimes the sole glimmer of hope of their societies. And when I meant to say something in the sense of "Gaza is an example of that, where you can't separate the people based on their reactions to their own oppression, the 'peaceful' ones may disagree with the 'radical's ideology and methods but in the end they still share a common struggle and goal, the true big bad here being the colonial oppressor (for now) who created the conditions for violent resistance and religious fundamentalism to spread in the first place", it ended up coming across to her as "all of Gaza supports Hamas".
Eventually I just gave up arguing, on the basis that "hey, at least she supports a ceasefire too", and we continued our friendship and communication like normal. Though that underlying feeling of frustration and disappointment kept lingering within me...
Some time later, over the course of a few months, we watched some movies together... and some of these movies (e.g. "Wicked") also contained themes of oppression and discrimination, presenting fictionalized depictions of them in fantasy settings, and another one was about colonialism and it's effects on nature. Obviously, when watching these, my brain also inevitably made the connection with Palestine (among other things), but was frustrated knowing that I couldn't tell her that without having to argue again.
Over time, I opted to sprinkle in some political articles (not even just about Palestine specifically, but also White Feminism and other instances of colonialism and imperialism, including an analysis on zionist antisemitism) in my stories inbetween pics of my mundane activities, hoping she'd read them, without me having to shove it in her face directly. But it proves to have been for nothing...
Fast forward, and I share with her a leftist commentary&analysis video about Arcane ("Arcane has always been centrist", great watch btw). We discuss some stuff we agree and disagree on in a civil manner. Eventually I somehow couldn't help but mention Zionism and Palestine in a small side comment again (my bigger argument was not centered around it). She noticed, and got upset again, disagreeing and stating "uhm I disagree, Palestinians aren't oppressed, they are the ones who started it and are being racist towards Israelis". I got annoyed and replied something along the lines of "Bruh, Israelis are the indeed occupiers and oppressors here, how you still so ignorant?" and announced that I'll share some sources for once. She took great offense to being called "ignorant", and claimed she'll also share some from her side.
I took some time for research and sent her several long lists with sources covering several aspects (the beginnings and proof that this is indeed colonialism, casualties comparison, Hamas & PA and other factions, women (including female journ*lists and resistance fighters), greenwashing, ressource distribution...) with some of my own commentary in between (which for once was actually quite calm, objective (Edit: ok the first few messages were emotionally charged too), and non-accusatory). Though it didn't take too long either, because I have already semi-prepared myself for such confrontation. Then I waited. 1 week of silence. Then, her reply finally arrived. It was not as bad as I thought it'd be, but still disappointing. She essentially just wanted to retreat from the argument, refused to share her sources bc "it would only stoke the flames", once more insisted she was already well-informed long before receiving my links since she "has been keeping up with this war for a long time", and suggested we should just shift our focus away from this topic because she otherwise enjoys hanging out and talking with me. I took offense to that, since she essentially admitted to not even have bothered looking at anything I sent. And her offer just... rubbed me wrong. Having to avoid this one topic when it's reflected so often around us, in reality and fiction. And in general, how could she deny the plight of one people, but then preach how "all oppression is wrong"? If she's on a completely different page than I am? So I took only 24hrs to draft different responses, and sent some replies that could be dumbed down to this: "Sorry mate, but if I can't discuss stuff like this with you, we're not compatible" "Also, you mean you can't support guys who commit mass-r*pes, but yet you are fine with me 'supporting them'? (since according to your own logic, pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas are the same thing)" "I really don't want to do this, but I think it'd be better for both of us if we go seperate ways. Goodbye" and one pic with a cartoon saying "We can disagree and still be friends - yeah, on pizza toppings, not genocide". And before she had the chance to respond, I blocked her.
And now I wish I had taken more time to think, before doing any of this. Because now she definitly resents me for good. And it would've not ended like this, had I done things differently from the start. We had plans together, and I ruined them. I wish i could've either kept it alive but simply at arms length (like make it clear if she insists on these views, I merely can't consider her my closest of friends and that our relationship evolving into anything beyond platonic will be off the table), or just break it off much gentler, without blocking... The subtle contempt I felt before that point has abruptly transformed into much more debilitating shame, guilt and regret since.
To wrap this all up, I guess the main questions I derive from this experience and would like you to give your thoughts on are:
Was I justified in feeling the way I did (even if I might've overreacted?
What would you have done in my place?
Do you think we could've continued being friends like that, that it would've been ok?
And any advice on coping with the consequences of my actions and my grief overall? Surely I'm not the first to have been in this sort of situation, right?
General advice and sources on how to be more compassionate and come off as less zealous when engaging in debates like these?
Bc in left circles, we always argue about how friends can agree-to-disagree, except when it comes to human rights and genocide. Would this have also fallen into that? Since otherwise we're both very pro- any human right you could think of (except she isn't really pro-Palestinian rights, I guess... or technically she is worried about Palestinian women, but only in regards to the violence they suffer at the hands of domestic patriarchy, not recognizing the additional suffering caused by colonialism and that either source of gender-based violence does not justify the other). And isn't there at the same time a common complaint about how the left is so weak because we are so divisive over too many things?? (or does it apply here at all?)
Like do not get it twisted, she is not evil, she is not a zio herself (though one of her fave celebrities is one), she probably has her heart in the right place, she's just very stubborn and was unlucky to have received a half-assed and probably patronizing attempt at education from me, an equally stubborn plus impulsive and hot-headed individual. And now she's surely heartbroken too, maybe even more than I am. She is a very forgiving person, but I doubt we could ever get reconcile this time... or if we should even get reconcile at all. Bc now I know I won't convince her to consider a different perspective ever. And if her stance made my uncomfortable, mine probably made her uncomfortable too.
Ok thank you for reading my entire stupid yappery, I'm interested to hear you all.
You were a massive, ginormous peepee. You shouldn't apologize. She's better off without your endless diatribes, purity tests and holier-than-thou "learn or burn" link dumps. Poor girl was like, here's a dweeb who literally supports fundamentalists Islamist terror groups and think raping, mutilating and murdering girls at a music festival is "resistance", but I'm still gonna give his shmuck butt a chance. And you just kept blowing it over and over again. Leave her alone and go be miserable by yourself or with someone who does some useless Palestine virtue signaling street theater.
She didn't "engage" with your nonsense link dumps because she's a mature, emotionally developed human being who prioritized a relationship with you over political disagreements that neither of you have any actual influence over. She didn't need the validation of defeating your viewpoints or convincing you. She gave you the most precious thing she has, herself, her time, her attention, even as you kept insinuating that she was lacking because she didn't submit to your arguments.
I know you're a kid. Do whatever you want. She's better not being around a toxic person, and if you're not one yet, you're well on your way. As for her, don't you worry, she'll put a finger out and guys will line up around the block to give her attention and care and support and love which she deserves.
You didn't expect this on a leftist sub, but here we are. I hope one day you can look back and really see what an ugly person you were to a nice girl who went out of her to overlook areas of disagreement, try to make peace and be with you, something which is very rare in this world.
Neutral is complicit, frick her
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Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori at the Grammys π pic.twitter.com/DF1VbSoHLu
β Doc π₯ (@backendoc) February 2, 2025
https://x.com/big_business_/status/1886190112859373833
https://x.com/Glock_Topickz/status/1886189817446187278
Lmao they werent even invited. Just showed up to do their fetish.
ET reports that Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori have been escorted out of the #GRAMMYs after showing up uninvited. pic.twitter.com/mIUR7VWMsM
β Pop Base (@PopBase) February 3, 2025
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Clips from an abandoned video on /r/dating_advice, the editing was a huge b-word. Might be worth finishing though.
What should I do? !poll_voters
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M27 from the UK and following what is going on in your fricking country.
Rent free
Btw if you're a 27 year old male in this country and STILL haven't chudded out, transition immediately
I hope you Trump voters are happy.
Immigration - He promised to lower immigration. You do realise that the majority of your illegal immigrants come into the US by plane on Visas and over stay their welcome?
Heh I bet nobody at ICE has figured that one out
no wait no you can't take those Dreamers from their homes and fly them back to Colombia nooooo defund ICE
Price of groceries - He promised to lower groceries. Has that happened? Has it frick. Its fricking risen.
How would this cute twink know exactly why does he care so much about american 'groceries' when a loaf of bread here is like 3 hours wages
Elon Musk - He has put the world riches man in charge of a joke of an government agency. I would say he is a much bigger threat than the Chinese are with Tiktok.
DEI - You realise that we fricking need diversity? To bring a varying range of perspectives into areas.
Unless those perspectives happen to come from white men
If all people working in an agency are of one race, gender and economical upbringing, chances are they are going to come to a very similar conclusion on a lot of matters.
So what you're saying is diversity encourages conflict? interesting...
Honestly frick your country. All you are doing is isolating yourself.
Isolating themselves from....? A backwater communist shithole island?
Forgot about fricking Ukraine. What happened to Trump ending the war almost as soon as he stepped foot in the White House? Hasn't fricking materialised has it?
yeah chuds what happened to this thing I just made up in my own head. Bet you feel silly now
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Hmm, I condescendingly hectored and lectured everyone about trump and it didn't work... What am I doing wrong?
When is Trump Derangement Syndrome going on the DSM-5? Like holy shit chuds were never this bad about Biden, were they?
I wonder how our Brave Resistance Leader feels about Jan 6th
I am a proud dissenter I...
larp as a witch and cast spells against Immigration Enforcement
Look at my Resistance dawg we ain't ever escaping the Trumpreich
shouldn't you be anyway?
This user spends his entire waking life neurodivergentally typing paragraphs about cats
Hey there. What you have to realize is that in general, MAGAts lack empathy.
Empathy mentioned, deploying heatmaps!
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On March 11, 889, a 22-year-old Japanese emperor wrote in his diary about his new black cat.
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) February 10, 2025
"On the oth Day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a gift to the late⦠pic.twitter.com/pR1WQIcRAP
- Grue : Daily reminder to bully spergs that use degenerate as an insult
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π¨#BREAKING: The Truth
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 19, 2025
The past few days have been an unrelenting nightmare, marked by an overwhelming barrage of stress, frustration, and exhaustion that has taken a significant toll on my part. A severe and unjust breach of my personal life has occurred, and private⦠pic.twitter.com/bUa1OGxcnA
"Furthermore, let me state this as clearly as possible as I have no interest in minors. Period." https://t.co/p3frIhg4uw pic.twitter.com/ydimrHv8ce
β MavLostHisIQ (@MavLostHisIQ) February 19, 2025
Respectfully, if youβre a proud gay man, why did you pretend to have a wife? https://t.co/Cv4uokZGI2 pic.twitter.com/bEKdDMepbm
β TheDoog (@doogle990) February 19, 2025
Who had this on their 2025 bingo card? https://t.co/CoONU1LOEE pic.twitter.com/J84ptCNbGq
β Garbage Human (@GarbageHuman24) February 19, 2025
So... turns out this degenerate is into pup play...
β Joshua Ek (@JoshuaEkOnX) February 19, 2025
... dude... you can get off this dimension!
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Rawsalerts is ALSO into nappies and shit like that!
β Joshua Ek (@JoshuaEkOnX) February 19, 2025
In an advanced and respectful society, you'd be put down like the sick dog you identify as!
What a degenerate!
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"Imporntant" bro gooning as he wrote this whole statement https://t.co/ng4L3A6GUt
β Cynic (@FreeRoamMode) February 19, 2025
Now THATS how you conservatism in 2025. Uwu
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SNL had Tom Hanks play a racist Trump supporter who wouldnβt shake a Black manβs hand. This propaganda is dumb and isnβt funny.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 17, 2025
When will they learn?? pic.twitter.com/b5s5culphF
For those of you not in the know, Black Jeopardy is a recurring SNL sketch in which the trivia categories are replaced with Black slang,. Naturally, many of the jokes use Black stereotypes as the punchline, so you'd think rightoids would love this. Sadly, the chuds of the moment are too thin-skinned to appreciate this.
8 years ago, Tom Hanks joined Black Jeopardy as Doug, a Trump supporter (hick) who fits into the show perfectly due to a shared distrust of elites, but is reluctant to shake the host's hand.
Recently, as part of the 50th Anniversary, SNL did another Black Jeopardy. It was the least funny one so far, but that's not important. At the end, Doug appears and does the same thing as before (getting a question right, is reluctant to shake the host's hand).
Rightoids were not having this, proclaiming and
finding common ground to be instead to mockery of all rightoids, and an expression of the liberal elite's pure contempt for them.
You can see some here: https://x.com/search?q=libs+of+tiktok+tom+hanks, but here's a few others:
Add another chapter to the book βWhy We May Never Lose Again.β Unbelievably offensive. Theyβve learned nothing. https://t.co/7Geqszjafc
β Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) February 17, 2025
POS snob who thinks he's better than us. https://t.co/ECY4dXgDjQ
β Catturd β’ (@catturd2) February 17, 2025
And here's Elon retweeting the time-honored tradition of "all my enemies are libertarians":
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So some chuds recently made a game awards show called "The Real Game Awards" as an ostensible competitor to the woke and cringe game awards shows run by games journos. The intent I guess is that real g*mers will give awards to games that are good instead of just giving the award to the gayest person with the pinkest hair even if their games were shit
Iconic celebrities such as the angry video game nerd even hosted it
This cost 30,000 dollars by the way
Anyway, one of the awards went to Bloodborne Kart/Nightmare Kart, an homage to PS1 kart games with a Bloodborne theme made by a , b0tster
The thinks that this is somehow an epic own because they gave the award to a trans person which surely must be a mistake because le chuds obviously only care about white supremacy or whatever
Twitter responds by pointing out that they gave the award because they liked their game and they don't care if someone is trans so long as they're not a weird freak about it
b0tster responds by hiding all the comments about how they just wanted to give an award to a good game, but keeping all the harsher comments so they look like more of a victim
when that isn't working and they're still getting called out they decide it was illegal to give them an award
finally they just melt down and lock their account completely
twitter is still full of people dunking on theythem. as is ever the case, trans people can't just take a win and have to be weird about it. also the trans woman indie game dev obsessed with ps1 graphics calls themselves lilith btw
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trans lives matter but conway's game of life is just for fun.
Ugh, the link is bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ (no HTTPS) but @Aevann is trying to save us from ourselves by auto-correcting to https.
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Here's the text of one of the resignations, from a former clerk for Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts (conservative judges for the s reading)
I expect you will find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
You can see another here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/read-acting-us-attorney-resignation-letter-doj-response/index.html
which is from a Federalist society member and Scalia clerk:
And to top it all off, 's Border Czar threatens to renew the charges if he doesn't cooperate with ICE (totally not corruption though):
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I think we should commit genocide on Russia and China and Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons.
I don't want regime change, I just don't want their government and citizens to be alive at all
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