System administrator for state university and refugee from lemm.ee of about 2-years.

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Cake day: July 27th, 2025

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  • You’re getting paid for doing the work of Fox News and Republican grifters, right? The only place I’ve seen or heard about anyone wanting to take guns from anyone has been from right-wing conspiracy theorists and right-wing talking heads who use that shit to scare right-wing idiots into voting against their best interests by conflating sensible gun laws with taking all guns away. You make up stats or cherry-pick from somewhere, that’s clear.

    I know of no democrat voter who doesn’t own a gun nor any that don’t want them to be available. We just don’t think our school kids should need to practice active-shooter drills or invest in bulletproof backpacks to get an education because Bill here HAS to have a weapon that can cut a deer in half from a mile away. They got dumb-fucks spouting this shit off cause the more they repeat the lie the more dumb-dumbs believe them, fight a culture war instead of a class war, and buy more guns.

    Republican voters with your belief will find out how many lies they swallowed if a Civil War does break out. The left may have fewer guns but I don’t know of any gun nut with more than one life.







  • You can lay all that at the feet of the boomer generation and their parents, thank you. American exceptionalism was propagandized in our textbooks, by our media, and worst of all by the voting bloc that now demands we shut up and work harder to get to where they got to. Many of us in gen-x and older millennial’s were just as horrified at the atrocities of our earlier generations as many who faced down the receiving end of that exceptionalism outside the US. However, it wasn’t until the last 20-25 years that we even knew all the awful shit that happened at the hands of American imperialism.

    We didn’t learn the same history in school. We didn’t have the ability to push back against the generational propaganda being fed to us from every side. Nor did we have the ability to vote to stop it at any point before the information age. So please don’t throw all American’s under the same umbrella as our government, past or present. Many of us were born into this mess and have been powerless to stop it our entire lives. We may never get a chance to make amends for our past, at this rate, but not for a lack of trying.

    Or, if you prefer, we can lump all current citizens of any nation in with their government’s past. Probably wouldn’t seem fair to blame all Canadians for their treatment of native people and the indoctrination schools containing mass graves of Inuit children that seem to turn up regularly, aye?


  • The subtlety of context in this case was missed by anyone who believed that comment was literal.

    1. The comment was in email by Epstein’s brother, who hated tRump.

    2. He was aware that Clinton and Epstein were acquaintances (plausible) or it was a reference to the name of Gislain’s horse (more likely).

    3. He likely knew, or it had been alluded to, of Epstein (or someone) having damning evidence of tRump improprieties of sexually explicit, and potentially embarrassing, blackmail material.

    Reading that email, with the context, made it sound much less like a literal, factual statement and more an insulting joke about the proclivities of a serial liar and suspected/known sexual deviant. Learning of the horse’s name, as well, afforded further credence to it being an insult about tRump and the horse, than about tRump and Bill Clinton.