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This grant is the epitome of this quote:

The illusion of freedom in America will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. -Frank Zappa

The gloves have come off. The stage-play has concluded. The government is coming for us.

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"Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be be simpler if the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?" -Bertolt Brecht <--You Are Here--

The borders are open. The invaders are exempt from the killshot and granted every consideration while the government just hired, trained, and armed 87,000 IRS agents to sick on the American people who are paying for the room, board, general welfare, and comfort of their third world replacements.

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Yes, while our Military Veterans, mostly women and children, are homeless and abandoned by the country they faithfully served.

Alejandro Mayorkas is the most dangerous Communist Cuban in the US, his parents must be flipping in their graves. In 2014 he embraced the horrific government that they ran away from in the late 50's early 60's, he served as Obama's Communist wingman. An absolute disgrace to the human race.

Elections have consequences, stolen elections have disastrous consequences and here we are today, living in a gulag. #ThanksObama

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Sad, we left our motherland because of Communism to now experience it in our adopted land. My father warned me about Obama in 2007, everything he said has materialized. Not sure how we stop these monsters, they will continue to steal elections with the help of RiNOs.

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A founding father once said that constant vigilance is the price of liberty. We have to watch the government like a hawk, relentlessly. The moment we stop the wolves will start circling. Here is a strategy for this which may interest you: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/apathy-is-the-fire-in-which-we-burn

“But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process.

Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.” -Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Damn, that's an excellent post. I'll follow links within your post tomorrow when I'm not rushed. I've been engaged with local policy matters for many years and I teach folks how to research Bills, Laws, EOs, follow the money for politicians and nonprofits, how to reach out to their elected officials, etc. Knowledge is power and I happily share my knowledge if it's going to help the underserved communities. Thanks for the work you're doing!

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You mean like Pierre Delecto?:

https://youtu.be/5e83Tbx_qS4?si=XvImRedJIiCpUAjh

It's for your safety....dontcha know!....:)

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Holy Shiznit Florida Man! I am not a blue bird acolyte, therefore, this is the first I have heard of Lil Mitty's nom-de-plume. What a piece of sh*&, uh...work.

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The Republicans should have begun impeachment proceedings against Mayorkas the day after they took over the House.

Everyone knows what he is doing and why he’s doing it.....

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Sep 15, 2023·edited Sep 15, 2023

When you say it like that it seems so much gentler than it probably is.

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Frank Zappa was a very smart man, unlike so many musicians I know who, back in the 60s and 70s, were the first to protest government and who now are led around like sheep, following every mandate without question, indeed, with vehemence. Sure wish Frank Zappa had lasted longer than he did.

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Oh noooo....here comes Sluggo!

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Don't worry about Sluggo, Mister Hand is the real problem.

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Blender anyone?

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Yes, they are going to be mean to you. Welcome to the Play-Doh Republic.

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well played...."Spot" on!

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It helps to have common cultural references to riff off of.

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Brad - "crackers" can't have no culture. that would be a misappropriation....a "riff off".

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I haven’t thought about Sluggo in decades

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The most infuriating part is they are using the tax dollars citizens pay to oppress those same citizens.

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This has been the case since 1913, since the Fed and Income Tax allow the federal government to impoverish citizens while bribing the formerly sovereign states to oppress us.

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I look forward to meeting all of you in the waiting area for Room 101.

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I thought the same when I clicked the little heart.

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I am not now, nor have I ever been a 9/11 Truther or similar, but I will say that 9/11 proved hella convenient.

Before 9/11, anything like the so-called "Patriot Act" would have been a non-starter. Biden proposed something similar in the 1990s and his proposal sank like a stone.

On 9/12, Americans could not surrender their civil liberties quickly enough.

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Remember this?:

https://vimeo.com/392509568

We 'Won't Get Fooled Again'....

Flash forward 20 years later:

Mask on. Pockets empty. Shoes off. Hands up. BIOSCAN!

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The irony of that song being played to commemorate 9/11 is just too much for words.

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Meet the new boss, etc

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And the parting on the left

Is now the parting on the right

And the beards have all grown longer overnight

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well if you work hard enough, put your time in, keep your mask on and strive for inclusion and equity we'll only make you pay 50% in taxes!

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It's for your own good you prole.

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Hounddog!

Miss ya man!

Cheers!

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Not all of us! At 21 years old I was very motivated to fight the Patriot Act in the limited ways available to me. Though to be fair I also found it briefly liberating that there was basically zero worry about any contraband other than explosives and weapons. College sports travel became more fun and more relaxing 😎

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Steph, I found it much easier to emigrate from the US, once that dastardly act was passed. Little did I know that the country I chose - Australia - does not have a Bill of Rights - so - no freedom of speech, religion, and definitely no right to bear arms. Digitally controlled in medicine, traffic, and shopping (so far).

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Oh bust!! I left in 2003. But mostly for love. So politics didn’t figure much into my decision. Got lucky as the NL does have similarly protected constitutional rights. That all got thrown right out the window during the past three years. So hey ho, damned if you do, damned if you don’t! I had some harrowing days in 2021 trying to figure out if we should stay here or go somewhere else, but came to the conclusion it doesn’t matter too much where you go. You have to fight where you are. 💪🏻

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Yep! Thank you for that. Yes, at the time I left for love, too - but watching that Patriot Act and the insanity of my flag waving, wardrum neighbours (as far as the eye could see) made it oh so easy to leave!

And yes, now I will not return, even though the chaos that is the USA gives me the most hope for them. Standing, fighting where I am. This is the hill.

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I love everything about this. Sending you strength!

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Truth told. Thanks

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You are smarter than most humans.

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I’m not sure that’s it, but thanks. More likely I’m just dedicated to the basics I believe in.

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You need to go further back than 9/11..if you still believe the myth they put out by now I doubt you can see either lite or truth. That is sad. Praying for your eyes, ears, heart and mind to be open to the LORD'S truth..believe in the LORD and follow "the Way" HIS SON, YESHUA

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Our rulers no longer fear us. That's why they're letting us see what they're doing to us.

The display is meant to frighten us into submission.

Sadly many of us have already succumbed, some quite eagerly.

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Power is ruled by fear; the fear of losing power.

That's why they want us to live in FEAR.

Losing something is the most powerful motivator known to mankind. It will launch a thousand hideous ships of terror.

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Do they have reason to fear us?

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Only that there's billions of us and only a few of them. We need to stop watching the shadows on the wall of the cave, walk out, and take what is ours.

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Make that less than 30% of billions of us. But with that number we can turn the tide.

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None that I am aware of.

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Minority Report 2: Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention

You will be arrested if precogs detect Wrongthink Precrime

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Thank you, everyone who thought Reagan was a great President and who didn't manage to notice he was just another happy helper guiding America along the road we find ourselves trapped on now.

I was only a tot when Eisenhower was elected and too young, by the end of his term, to understand that he was the greatest President of my lifetime in his understanding of the world and of his nation and what forces were gathering themselves to ensure no political party would ever matter again.

Of course, he wasn't entirely all-seeing. He signed the National Highway Act and that was the beginning of the destruction of neighborhoods, small towns and local food production anchoring the strength of communities. But at least he was an honest man.

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And he also let the Dulles brothers overthrow multiple government they didn’t like. So there’s that too.

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Yes, there are no holy ones in politics. And "best" is of course a relative judgment.

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Well, except for Saint Barak. If you can excuse the crack smoking, that is.

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I voted for him twice. My unbroken record of regretting every vote I ever took.

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At least you got wise. Too many humans keep doubling down.

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I may have my flaws but dishonesty and a failure to reflect are not among them.

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How were so fooled?

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I'm a normal reasonable person. Happens to us all the time.

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You’re correct, there’s no one perfect for sure. It seems that a lot of people are enamored, As they should be, with his farewell address aka the military-industrial complex speech, but most of them have no idea what all went on with the Dulles boys. A good book about it is “The Brothers”

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Thanks for the recommendation. I can always use another book to get gloomy over.

I'm rarely enthusiastic for politicians. With Obama, I felt that I'd seen an astonishing historical arc that started for me with my HS years in the midst of the civil rights movement and culminating in a shared experience with my son for whom it was his first voting opportunity. On the phone with him at midnight when Ohio was called for Obama was very meaningful to me.

With Bernie, walking to my polling place to be extremely briefly a declared Democrat (rectified before I left the building), I felt that I was representing my immigrant grandma, and great-grandma, and all their family--some of whom were murdered in Uman instead of getting to become Americans--in voting for a Jewish candidate for President.

Sentimental motives and the foolish belief that any representative of either of the two parties might be different from any other in ultimate outcome are feelings I've been well schooled out of during this our Plague Era, and a little before it, of course.

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Thank you for that truth. He once said he was only an actor after he was elected. Didn't understand the deep truth of that statement until the last few years. They "the government" likely from Lincoln (yes I know I will get bashed for bashing the "great" Lincoln) forward except for maybe Trump, have and are ALL actors..no legal authority to do ANY of the things done.

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That kind of monitoring and control never ends well. Stasi? Cheka? So many to choose from, and they all end the same.

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WWG1WGA

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I realized how far down the road to serfdom that we have traveled when Edward Snowden made his disclosures and he wasn’t immediately recognized as a hero and protector of our Constitutional rights.

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I'm sure I'd wind up on that list for suggesting that we do what the mainstream left and democrat politicians do to us: moralize and racialize current events. Like vaccine injuries for instance - you know, "These were Tuskegee experiments 2.0. No justice no peace."

Apparently this is why I pay taxes. So that I can finance relentless "two legs good, four legs bad" politics, then be censored and surveilled for advocating reciprocity.

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They're planning to plant chips in your little pet pussycat...... so they can monitor your 'extreme' conversations in your living room. You heard it here first.

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They don’t need to. They already do it with our phones. Recently, I was talking with a friend about homeschooling. I didn’t homeschool my kids, but she had. Next ad I saw on social media was for homeschooling. Never saw it before, haven’t since.

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Any book I mention to someone in a comments section starts haunting my feed forthwith.

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Ditto. There's no hiding from these monsters.

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And our google home gadgets, smart tvs, smart appliances, ring cameras, Alexa....long list of surveillance products surrounding us every single day.

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Unless we’ve avoided buying those appliances. My phone is buried in my purse most of the time. I don’t think they can hear anything from there!

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So - we don't have them. We hate them, cover up all the cameras, never allow our phones to connect to internet. But we are housesitting for a family who does. Smart door, Alexa and "Hey Google" all over the house, smart TV, and lord knows what else. The whole house is "smart," and they're young, they work in IT, they think it's "normal." FREAKS ME OUT to know that, anytime I am in their house, it is listening to me. And watching, in a few selected places - it sends videos to the owners.

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WOW. What a way to live.

Similarly, one of my friends has Alexa. I mentioned to her how it spies and keeps track of everything she says/does. She replied that she didn't care. She likes the convenience of Alexa. I guess she doesn't have anything to hide.

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First they came for the antivaxxers, because they would not comply.

Then they came for the natural birthers, because they wanted to call a woman a woman.

Then they came for those who want to use cash instead of digital currency.

Then they came for.....(insert narrative here)

Her turn will come.

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I’ve had the something very similar happen after a phone conversation!

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A story. A mate of mine was in Singapore, talking to someone from intelligence services. My mate is truly international, so his friend could have been from Ireland, Germany, Australia, USA, or UK. They put their phones on the table, and TURNED THEM OFF. And continued to have their discussion. This was circa 2015. They were, of course, talking about sensitive topics, and both phones lit up at the same time and a message on the screen said, "STOP!" The phones were OFF. Naturally, Singapore is one of the most controlled countries in the world - but - still. Be careful what you say around your phone, and really - really, do you need to have it everywhere you go?

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Actually, does anyone really even need to have one of those phones?

I'm fine with just only my landline.

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I wish. Just like I wish I didn't have to use Facebook.

But if you want to promote your wares, you kinda need them. Interacting with the rest of the zombies.

But I put fences around the thing, wish I could afford to Faraday everything, too.

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We have similar idiocy in the UK too, an organisation called "Prevent", which, although the vast majority of terrorist problems are caused by the good old "Religion of Peace", have somehow concluded that the problem is mainly due to Right wingers.

They have a list of "indicators" which include reading C S Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and watching ex-MP Michael Portillo's TV series of "Great British Railway Journeys".

Meanwhile they gave one of the top stars of their much-vaunted de-radicalisation program Usman Khan a trip down to London as reward for his sterling performance, and he promptly stabbed the two top de-radicalisers to death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usman_Khan_(terrorist)

You couldn't make this stuff up.

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I’m sorry, that is really unbelievable. The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe? Great British railway journeys? Indicators of potential terrorism? Complete insanity, allied with monumental evil. I wonder what is not on their list of indicators.

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See here:

"According to the report, published in February 2023, reading the works of Christian writers, such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, could lead to “radicalization.” The government’s blacklist includes—in an instance not lacking irony— George Orwell’s 1984 and even a BBC documentary series following former Conservative minister, Michael Portillo, on train journeys across the country. Additionally, according to the report, key signs that people have an affinity for the “far-right and Brexit,”—apparently associating Brexit with right-wing extremism—include watching the TV series, Civilization and The Thick of It, and reading classics of political philosophy, such as Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. The works of Thomas Carlyle and Adam Smith are also on the list."

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/right-wing-radicalization-may-begin-by-reading-j-r-r-tolkien-and-c-s-lewis/

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Thanks for the link.

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Sheee-it!

Fine literature is now counter-narrative.

Clue?

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They object to you knowing about 'the last battle' higher up and further in and further on' the reward of the souls crossing into the 'New Narnia" after dying in the Last Battle... Aslan. The Lion of Truth, of G.O.D Because they don't belong to that deity they belong to the other one below...

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To be sure, before the terrorists of the religion of peace were the terrorists of the religion of Rome. I remember being really cautious about visiting UK pubs when I first started traveling. Didn't want to get blown up on summer holiday.

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Sep 15, 2023·edited Sep 15, 2023

tuckers chat with the argentine fella really showed up whats going on in the US and the democrats

if you havent seen it yet, its been seen a lot. 343m views so far

https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1702442099814342725?s=20

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That's one of Tucker's best interviews to date. I love listening to the Argentinian speak in his perfect Spanish, music to my ears. I loved everything he said but I don't think our corrupt government will allow him to succeed, he doesn't seem to be interested in being a puppet of the CIA or Kissinger's clan.

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Monitoring EGM will be its own separate funding stream.

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Holy cow! A Guttermouth sighting!

I hope all's been well in your world, Guttermouth.

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Lol, Gato, they're looking for me! And most of your readership, and Jeff Childers' readers, and Dr. McCullough's, and Mike Yeadon's, and Naomi Wolf's, and and and.

And most especially those people who support Children's Health Defense or ICAN or Millions Against Mandates or #ExitTheWHO, or read EPOC Times or listen to OMG or "The Resistance" in all its various forms......

😁

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How convenient that we are all on this place - herded into Substack - where we can easily be found.

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In short about 50 percent of the pop. Vaxxed or non vaxxed. Well, since we have to go anyway I guess that makes it alright?

Hey

You know they're all the same

You know you're doing better on your own so don't buy in

Live right now

Yeah, just be yourself

It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else

It just takes some time

Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride

Everything, everything will be just fine

Everything, everything will be alright, alright

Hey

Don't write yourself off yet

It's only in your head you feel left out

Or looked down on

Just do your best

Do everything you can

And don't you worry what their bitter hearts are gonna say

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The obsession with safety and doing something about "extremism" is getting old...

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