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1. Pyrrho (pyrrho@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:35:19 JST Pyrrho

   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
   @p
   >-I don't know where the timeline of events you are referring to would start or what the scope would be; it sounds like it could be a lot of effort for something that would not be actionable, even if we were to acquire perfect knowledge of it.
   
   To me this is multiple things: a chance for me to learn something from you, a potentially entertaining in-depth discussion about history/politics, a chance for me to better understand my own beliefs and refine them, and lastly a chance to convince you of a few things I think we differ on that I am moderately confident I can prove my case about. If you merely see me as a Mormon knocking on your door advocating for my religion, know that I am not even saying what we should or should not do in regards to Ukraine to achieve the best or least bad results.
   
   Do you know very much about the German revolutions of 1848? My 3rd great grandfather from the Kingdom of Hanover fought for similar values as what founded The United States. He fought for his freedom, and lost. Everybody hated the king. Everybody wanted to unify Germany. But mere Liberty could not sway over those who wanted much more radical social reforms; it splintered, and it failed. You could say Classical Liberalism went to war against Proto-Communism, but they both lost, and then we got World War 1 & 2 and the Cold War.
   
   He immigrated somewhere that shared his belief system; the United States of America. Once here he opened a small store where he made and sold furniture; my family hands down some of his works even today and I have a lot of fond memories as a kid building blanket fortresses under a wooden table he built. The Classical Liberal values he believed in failed in his homeland, but when the Civil War started only about a decade later, he'd rather die than let them fail twice. He had all of his sons fight, helped convince other German families as well to join, and partly through his and other local German's efforts Missouri was notoriously contested during the war and historians largely credit German immigrants in Missouri for why the state was so contested. Here's an interesting lecture on it: https://invidious.io.lol/watch?v=y5vjbJ-9U0o
   
   What point am I making? Well I mostly just think it is an interesting story, but there is one:
   
   History, global events, ideology, can be just a dumb thing like sports for people to bicker over, but for others it can feel way closer to home and real. I feel like Ukrainians are just like my Great Great Great grandfather; I don't want them to have to flee their homeland to be free.
   
   I'll say more probably on the weekend, but I just wanted to make a little progress getting over "Why even talk about it?", although I doubt I made much.
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:35:17 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Fever
     • mia
     @JonnyFever @Pyrrho @mia Jonny, I just put the bot to a bunch of dudes that have been whining about Jews all week. I do not want to hear what you have to say about Jews.
   • Fever (jonnyfever@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:35:17 JST Fever

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • mia
     @p @Pyrrho @mia
     I know. I just joined Poast again. Your instance has been targeted as a pro jew friendly instance. Why did you go all jewwy? Why’d you do that? Everyone on here hates jews. jews are the worst.
     
     My gawd. why!?!?!?
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:35:18 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • mia
     @mia @Pyrrho I am very interested in not dodging a fallout cloud. It does strike me as odd that we've picked Ukraine to free the shit out of.
   • Fever (jonnyfever@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:35:18 JST Fever

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     • mia
     @p @mia @Pyrrho
     
     Everyone knows you’re a jew now.
   • mia (mia@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:35:19 JST mia

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     • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
     @Pyrrho @p
     
     "Imported German mistakes manufactured consent for war for personal nostalgia, writes a misguided book."
   • pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2023 17:35:48 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Fever
     • mia
     @JonnyFever @Pyrrho @mia
     
     > Your instance has been targeted as a pro jew friendly instance.
     
     I wrote an entire long-ass rant about how that is retarded: https://freespeechextremist.com/notice/AEhYALYDUjPtvw33Dc
     
     > Everyone on here hates jews.
     
     They're fine. They spend less time annoying me than people that hate Jews.
     
     > My gawd. why!?!?!?
     
     I responded to people complaining about FSE's existence by declaring that FSE would survive the apocalypse and my own death and am now producing software for that purpose. I responded to people throwing shit-fits about drawings by announcing that I would no longer ban people for loli hentai. You tell me what you think will come of whining about Jews.