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“looking after your family and building personal connections with like minded people and getting away from and out from under government” ...

... is almost definitionally conservatism.

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Someone -- I wish I could remember and give him credit -- pointed out that periodically leftists will figure out something that they think is a huge insightful discovery, when it's just common knowledge for normal people.

UPDATE: FOUND IT -- I was thinking of this quote from Auron MacIntyre:

"Periodically, progressives reverse-engineer healthy sexual behavior and they act like they've discovered Atlantis."

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😂

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😎 Truth 👍🏼

Every time they start one of those sex boycotts, a whole lot of drama and damage is prevented.

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For certain!

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🎵Oooh do a little dance

Make a little love

Get down tonight

get down tonight🎶

Dude, I'm sorry. I just dig your handle.

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Now where did I leave my boogie shoes?

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And dance with you!

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*sigh*

I'm from The '70s. A thousand pardons...

https://youtu.be/LHEsE9yN2CY?si=v8G61wthUNB04bZo

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Keep it comin' love, keep it comin love..Don't stop it now, don't stop it now, don't stop it...

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Just like we' ve been trying to do for the past four years.

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Don't tell "Great Wyrm". His mind can only take so much. This might tip him or her over the edge, especially when the next set of elections happens like clockwork, contrary to his apocalyptic predictions.

As an aside, this post was so over the top in its distorted views of conservatism, that I'm tempted to think it's an attempt at parody. Alas, the "progressive" flag on his profile likely belies that.

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This is par for the course for twitter based discussions. The narrative propaganda has them. They believe Trump is a fascist, they believe that any dissent to the narrative is hate, and they believe that people going out and having fun in the world is tyranny.

Speaking of distorted over the top views. A few people I have encountered on twitter view us breathing like we are now, unencumbered without any "face filtration" are seen as people who are purposefully defecating in the water supply. Think of that notion, us meeting at restaurants without a mask is tentamount to walking around and taking craps in said restaurant and not wearing any pants.

Yet I guarantee you, they were not talking about this notion at all before 2020, because, according to models and graphs, any time we go to the bathroom, particles of it were in the air...and they could have all manner of pathogens inside of them. Yet nary a single tweet about demanding some sort of toilet suction to mitigate airborn fecal matter following flushing.

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Leftist-led unions made sure people did not learn to read or write, the better by which to indoctrinate them. The post from Reddit is this person's highest and best thought, unsupported by any reality. Bona fide idiocy.

Working like a charm.

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Unfortunately, committed leftists - sadly NOT institutionally committed - are the nastiest, most intolerant, linear thinking, hate-filled people I've had the bad luck to try to interact with over the years. And over the years, I have come to the realization that generally speaking, I like cats and even dogs way more than a whole lot of people.

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My favorite show is “My Cat From Hell” LOL

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"... is _almost_ definitionally conservatism." [emp Pi's]

¿almost? That there's Two Ringers on the Conservative Stake.

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I shudder to think about what these people are going to put themselves through for the next four years. This guy is 'settled' now, but what happens the first time Donald Trump gets quoted out of context on MSNBC? My hunch is "meltdown."

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Free will is magic. Them guys can eat their kishkes if they want to. Everyone else gonna discover the joys of a good book and feet up on the sofa and "I think I'm gonna learn to bake," or "how hard can it be to build a cabinet from scratch?"

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It's a little bit hilarious how closely his "plan" mirrors our own plan from a few years ago, right? Get your little circle of people right, and then look to expand that circle.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill-part-2

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You just about nailed everything, my boy.

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Ditto what you both said. From Blazing Saddles: "They wouldn't let us in their circle, so we made a circle of our own." Though we may be separated by Many miles, state or continents, I think we are in the same circle.

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It's a big circle, mind you. Lots of room in it for people to spread out and find their own little circles too.

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We will need Pi Guy to work out the radius and circumference of the circles

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American poet Edwin Markham said it this way: "He drew a circle that shut me out—heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in!”

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Something something American Dream

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It could go one of two ways.

They could do a full-on redux of "The Resistance", complete with Pussy Marches (and hats!), and continue to whine and complain, while completely ignoring any accomplishments Trump and MAGA may achieve which improve even their own miserable lives. Such as significant drops in energy and food costs.

Or, as the legacy MSM continues to turn to dust and their sacred echo chambers of agitprop fade ever faster and deeper into obscurity, they might slowly begin to at least consider peeking outside the bubble and seeing what all the actual "Joy" is all about. When gas and food are all of a sudden 25 - 30% less than they were under Biden and we aren't funneling billions into a corrupt Franken-nation which most cannot even find on a map -- and trying desperately to start a nuclear war -- it becomes more and more difficult to stay mad.

Success for all of America (and eventually perhaps a restoration of the entire West) is the best enticement. Make it so Great that they cannot deny it.

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Gas and food cheaper, and no more income taxes. They might even learn to like it...

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Nah, they will never admit it…

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They will go for the protests - It's their natural state. Leftists are far better and more comfotable at criticizing the establishment than running it.

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But Elon will own it, so....

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If Infowars airs on MSNBC, will the left suddenly flip to the right?

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I think he really means it when he says he intends to foster free speech.

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Agreed. Look for him on tic tok and let us know. I will not go near there. He sounds as if his mood is his main subject for all time and that around him, one walks on egg shells.

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Hopefully Elon will

purchase MSNBC soon and we won’t have to find out. Our fingertips to God’s ears…

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One of the guests at the Thanksgiving I attended was a woman who had been brought along by someone else. She spent the entire time behind her mask, with brief times with it pulled down so that she could eat (she was the only one masked and I really thought it strange she would dare eat next to us unmasked sorts). Toward the end of the gathering she waxed teary, nearly ready to cry as she expressed fear that as a (legal, long term) immigrant she might be hauled away in the night by Orange Hitler. The hysteria was palpable. And this woman is not dumb by any means- I had to get out of there early because I wanted to talk her down but didn't want to get into a political discussion at the holiday.

I've since seen a couple of tictoks made by holier than thou types who have decided that masking is some kind of communion-esque rite that makes one morally superior to others. Yeah, it's a religion at this point.

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No worries, evidently Musk will buy MSNBC at the cable news fire sale.

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He doesn’t seem to realize that people are conservatives because we want to be left alone to live our lives with our family and friends, free from people with other ideas trying to influence us or change our ways. Maybe the difference is that we want that freedom for other people too, including people in other countries. Democrats seem to have a busybody mentality.

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It's because they think they're smarter than everyone else, thus entitled to run things.

From Rush Limbaugh back in '21:

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2021/03/26/rush-wasnt-kidding-democrats-want-to-eliminate-elections/

RINOs would likely do it too, if they had the chance. Uniparty all.

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Oooh. From the vault. Nice one.

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TY Ryan, glad you liked it.

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Even if you think you’re smarter than other people, where do you get the idea that you’re entitled to boss them around? That idea has nothing to do with actual intelligence. So what’s the source? What makes people busybodies?

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I don't know. Sounds like a good question for a shrink, if any are reading this.

But it seems to manifest early (think bossy kids on the playground), and is something 'normal' people must learn to overcome or at least suppress, to live in a civil society.

But all you have to do is attend a PTA meeting or HOA board meeting, to see this tendency come to the surface. It seems to be nearly universal.

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Nailed it

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"Democrats seem to have a busybody mentality."

"Ooooo ... That's a Bingo!"

https://youtu.be/Zk5Il6KQrd8?si=F8WAwdh1eIUy39xg

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Vision of the annointed

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mr. wyrm will learn nothing. to be a progressive is one and the same as trying to solve problems with the same rationale used to create the problem.

like dogs to puke, they'll try again to build a bridge on half-played jenga pylons to some distant utopia in a marsh on a faultline....and wonder why it collapsed. you sorta have to admire the flawlesslness of their reality inversion.

alas it is the way of the progressive; they can't change because their ideology has no internal mechanism to challenge their belief that its necessary to be illiberal in their demands for liberality; in their demand for inclusion via exclusion; in their demands for heterogeneity through homogeny; in their demands for diversity by ideological uniformity.

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If you haven't seen that interview with the Kamala staffers, you should make some time for it. It's a wonderful glimpse into the mind of the Harris campaign. (Take a week off to prep for the debate, then complain about not having enough time to do events.)

Edit - found the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZOpWp02WVs

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Omg. They're proving my point. It really is remarkable how utterly perfect tgheir inversion of reality is...lmao

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Yes, exactly. The People failed the Glorious Leaders yet again.

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Which pretty much explains the current fad of media and manufacturing (looking at you, teletubbie Jaguar) of blaming the consumer for their footcannons.

The people will always fail the Glorious Leader, always. I know this from Bullwinkle cartoons*...

* Which my dad watched with me back around '65, '66 or so when I was a tad. I didn't know they were funny until after I grew up and rewatched them with my kids circa '92.

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I now see why Kamala lost. These people cannot speak without using their heads and hands to “talk”. The woman in this video ended up putting me to sleep. I get it now. Everything you want in a leader was missing….dynamic, positive messaging, joy, intelligence. Instead, Kamala set the tone for her team by being a whinger, a moaner, a depressive.

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Wait, she had staffers??! AND billions?

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What is it they say about a fool and his / her money?

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IMO, we dodged a fucking bullet. She couldn't run a campaign let alone the US economy.

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Listening now.

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They’re still in shock. Because that first creature that spoke, basically said it was so close, and we had no clue it was that close. It was a fooking landslide! Wow. So still delusional.

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"like dogs to puke, they'll try again to build a bridge on half-played jenga pylons to some distant utopia in a marsh on a faultline"

🤔

*holds up glass to light, swishes it about, frowns*

I should probably label the Angostura and the Rohypnol bottles so I don't do that again.

*steps onto Poop Deck, pours out drink over rail, heads in to start over*

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I went straight for the scotch. I mean it's a holiday after all!

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G&Ts here.

And Mrs. Pi just opened a 2020 Intrinsic Cabernet Sauvignon.

Them people in Willamette know how to grow grapes.

Their Pinot Noirs are *Chef's Kiss*

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"Liberal progressives inhabit a world of their own where reality never intrudes."

@FUDdaily

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He keeps pushing the blue button looking for a red outcome…

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Obtuse…this word needs to come back to describe these people. Maybe then they’ll see the light…but probably not.

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Ha yes. Hysteria is bad for people.

And some truths are real. Not just charity begins at home. If you're too busy saving the world to love and nurture your family, you missed the target by about a gazillion trillion billion lightyears.

Happy Thanksgiving! Gey gezint kim gezint! Eat well, come back replete with the only things that matter.

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Charles Dickens, in Bleak House, creates just such a character--a female (forgotten her name, but a great book. I was disappointed when it came to an end).

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I've always hated Dickens. Then one day when I was bored out of my mind and didn't want to reread any of the other books on my shelves I picked up "A Child's History of England" and fell in love. [I had it because one of my mother's neighbors was giving away her set of those collections of classics that were on everyone's shelves in the '40s and I took the lot.]

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I read Bleak House because I was home-schooling 8th grade daughter, and wanted to ensure—while I was in charge—that she had exposure to Dickens. I hadn’t read any of his since jr. high (A Tale of Two Cities, of my own volition). Reading his work as an adult, I had much more patience (and understanding) with his literary habits. A Child’s History of England—I read that, my father’s childhood (b. 1915) copy, when I was little. And fondly have remembered it. Thank you for mentioning it.

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My exposure in HS to many of the classics of English literature made me hate them for decades. Took me a long time to begin to appreciate Shakespeare. Fortunately a friend's mother, who was a librarian and who I loved and admired got me reading the Brontes.

But even with authors I love, I don't love all of their stuff. To me Jane Austen only wrote a couple of deathless books and the rest were variations on the theme, done lesserly.

I'm a "say it in the fewest words necessary" sort of gal so Dickens with his paid-by-the-word style annoys the hell out of me.

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"My exposure in HS to many of the classics of English literature made me hate them for decades."

If not for SciFi, I would've never read a thing until I realized how cool some of what I could've read when I was in HS really was. I wish I hadn't hated it so much.

I spent 25 years catching up. And it was well worth it.

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My father's only useful purpose (other than the basic obvious) was to passively introduce me to sci fi at a very early age. His two brothers used to pass around paperbacks and when they got to my father's night table I read them. I still have this: https://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Science-Fiction-Third-D-422/dp/B000XADZUY#:~:text=%22The%20Untimely%20Toper%22%20by%20L,curse%20and%20a%20time%20paradox.

which is really a miracle considering how many times I moved in my life and how many books got lost.

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Mrs. Jellyby.

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And it is a wonderful book.

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"Gey gezint kim gezint!"

*clinks glasses with SCA* L'Chayim!

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Clink clink!

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"I know what I have to do: Look after my family, and build personal connections with like-minded people and underground groups." (read: I'm going to enforce conformity in my domain by the exclusion of all viewpoints not bellybutton-to-asshole in lockstep with my liberal Democratic PC fantasies, and I will accomplish this by stepping into a self fabricated echo chamber, then closing and bolting the door thereby ensuring the security of my psychosis).

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

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When people finally break free of the “constant psycho-drama, always raging drumbeat that is everything Democrat”, their first realization is that the world didn’t come to a crashing end, and then, this new and unfamiliar sense of calm and serenity, saying to themselves, “What the hell was I always so worked up about anyway?!”

That new place they now find themselves is called: Sanity.

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God, they are so fucking insane!

Freedom is slavery!

My wanting to live my own life my own way is torture to them.

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Also perhaps a Christian nationalist or national Christofascist or whatever they are calling everyday nonatheists these days. After all, CS Lewis wrote long ago: "The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden—that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time." -- Mere Christianity (Book 3, chapter 9)

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Today I learned on Reddit's R/AskALiberal that

1. Kamala was never leading in the polls

2. Cutting out family members who have different political beliefs from onefelf is righteous

3. Nothing is wrong in the way the Dems are governing America

4. Now, after this election, the government is going to control the media narrative, a narrative that is currently pure

Those people on r/AskALiberal are insane

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But you don’t think on internal polling she couldn’t tell she was going to get smoked? If not they were lying to her. Internal polling likely always showed this.

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I doubt they told her anything, she's so stoooopid, she'd blurt it out.

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To be more

politically correct, we don’t say she is stooooopid. We

say she is unburdened by useful brain cells, introspection, thoughtful recourse, and intellectual curiosity. 😜

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🤣

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You could use a few more o’s in stupid.

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The cockles of my cold black heart were warmed by this, what a great way to enjoy my first cup of coffee this fine morning!

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GreatWyrm writes that, "autocrats are conservatives." Huh, that would come as big news to Xi Jinping, Maduro of Venezuela, the Sandinistas, and the Castro regime.

And let's not forget which party in the USA instituted the longest and most extensive autocratic regimes during Covid. Hint: it wasn't conservative governors like Ron de Santis or Brian Kemp.

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I am happy to see that Mr. Worm is adjusting to the reality of having ended up in some fisherman's bait-box.

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And to think, all this time he was misspelling his name.

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His pronouns are Wyrmyn

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In this case, I should think that it's to be expected.

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LOLOLOL

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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is a War Room!"

Peter Sellers plays three roles. Slim Pickens as Major King, I mean, just *waves raffia chapeau about* "WaaaHooooooo!"

https://youtu.be/UAeqVGP-GPM?si=FQBbe-UHF7AMaoqZ

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i wish i had me one of them doomsday devices...

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You've obviously never heard of cobalt chlorium G.

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May be a a sign of awakening that his identity is not his political affiliation, his activism etc. Going back to connect with his family is a good start and maybe back to his true identity. Hatred born out of fear is exhausting. Maybe it ran its course one would hope so he can have a happy life.

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