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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine they made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.

    -Sir Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

    As long as you remember him, you carry a small spark of his existence with you. And with every story you tell, his ripples will continue to spread.



  • He promised to get rid of the brown people. And they were told to follow him. That’s it for a lot of them. Blindly following someone because their preacher says to is ingrained in a lot of evangelicals especially.

    But also a lot of them believe he was sent by God to kick-start the end times and trigger the Rapture. That’s why a lot of the politicians especially are behind him, and why Biden treated him with kid gloves. You’d be amazed how many statesmen in both the Republican and Democratic Party legit believe in all that ‘end times we go to Heaven and all the disgusting plebeians go to hell’ bullshit.




  • Well, okay, first, a point of order: ‘Free Speech’, as outlined in the First Amendment, simply means that the government can’t persecute you for saying things they don’t like. The First Amendment has no bearing, or jurisdiction, on private businesses.

    Not that our government hasn’t been violating the First Amendment too, of course. But that wasn’t what you were ranting about.

    And were we ever up the tubes? I mean, I suppose we were, and still are, if you consider white rich male landowners to be the only ‘America’ that counts… which they certainly seem to believe…

    But for everyone else it’s always been kind of a shithole, let’s be honest. For some more than others, of course.

    What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

    (That’s Frederick Douglas’ 4th of July speech btw)