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I work with a few Haitians. Just like most of the Gambians I work with they are also hard working yet pleasant to talk to. They just want a better life. Seeing these intellectually bankrupt cretins trash immigrants is a blight on our society. Four years ago I had preached patience in trying to reintegrate these maga people back into society. The 1938 Neville Chamberlain route if you will. Now I want to go full blown Roosevelt in 1943 at Casablanca and offer nothing to them but their complete capitulation. Do not stop until these people and their racist ideas are completely eradicated from American society. I would gladly take a tax increase to relocate all of maga to Russia and Belarus. Just be done with these hateful people for good and get some people in this country that belong here.

Gotcha. The Wild West era in Russia. So much to unpack and I would yield to you on this as I have never devoted serious amounts of time to this part of Russian history.

This movie is just so GOOD. It has English and Mandarin subtitles as I believe this is a film from Thailand. I went to watch it last night (The Big AMC in Times Square has a good amount of foreign films due to having 25 screens.) and this was so very well done. Watching the relationship between a grandmother and grandson develop while she is dealing with a terminal illness is so poignant. This film better make it to the final group of international films during awards season next year. I believe this is on Netflix as well so please watch it if you have some time to do so. I definitely want to see it again. The director, Pat Boonnitipat, needs to win a best director for this one. The grandmother was so funny yet amazing in her role. The sponge bath scene was a really hilarious moment in this film because of the conversation.

Well to be more clear it was not that they cared about sending the Russian Jews to a new state, it was that the war was over and they could now interfere with the British Empire and its interests in the post-war world. Unintended consequences and whatnot is what we now see. The outside world interfering in something they had no business in doing has led to more innocent bloodshed. It rekindled the millennia old issue of two peoples living together that have issues with one another that have transcended generations. I find the whole thing tragic and think the Jews should have been resettled anywhere but there after the war’s conclusion. I come from Jews on my mom’s side (her father) and one thing I have learned is that Jewish people have a lengthy memory. Go check out Sputh Dallas now if you want to see that as the Jews want their old neighborhood back there as well. It’s not surprising that they have not done anything in regard to Russia and it can be tied back to this.

We should also thank Marshal Stalin and the Soviets for this. They were more than happy to see Jewish resettlement of the area after World War II.

You have some impeccable taste in the places you go to! I mean wow you are living your best life for sure. The name of where you are at today actually reminded me that a co-worker keeps telling me to go to his favorite coffee house in Harlem called Monkey Cup. He’s from Gambia if I remember correctly and he said this place brings him peace. For a coffee house they really made it look nice and inviting to come into and it’s not hard to get to on 118th.

I chose the name because it is a neighborhood I frequent because my favorite AMC location is there as well as the AMNH. I moved to East Harlem during the first year of the pandemic. Wish I had moved over here when I first came to NYC.

What a fun group of people. These people should not be allowed to share this country with the rest of us.

Well to be fair he never spent a single day of his life working here. He just kinda existed, which is pretty much how his base of NYC maga voters in Staten Island live. They’re just here making no positive contribution to society while blaming immigrants for all of what ails them.

Trade her for a shipment of homeless cats and dogs. That seems fair.

So incredibly DUMB. TFG is not your garden variety idiot. He continually reminds anyone with an IQ north of room temperature that he is not fit to be president. Put him on Pitcairn Island and call it a day so we never, ever have to see him again. I don’t use any drugs, but I really hope one of you does what YGIFS said he’d do when this guy keels over.

One of the best things any person could ever do is spend a year living and working in NYC. While this place has plenty of its own issues, one thing you will learn about is the diversity of the human race. We are all far more similar to one another than we think. One of the best and most enjoyable parts of my life is living in East Harlem. You can embrace a community that is different from what you grew up in and I enjoy that.

This sounds interesting to me. I will go and watch it no matter what the reviews are because that’s just an opinion of the person writing it. I cannot say I watch movies because of who is directing it, but this project seems really important to Coppola so I will go check it out.

Fork’em Devils! 3-0 on the shock the state of Arizona tour. If I’m going to be handing over thousands of dollars to this university for a masters I am going to enjoy the rare moments of gridiron success. Good on my guys for actually going to San Marcos for this game.

It’s the color in this case. It is entirely because of the skin color and language difference. If this was the far smaller community of white Haitians (Met several of them on Long Island a few years ago.) they would not be the people being dehumanized right now.

Fascism, if you look at it in the 1930’s, you can see it in three major combatants. Japan was a military dictatorship with a fascist bent. Some of that was due to elements of the samurai culture that lived on even as Japan modernized. That would not be the brand of fascism we would see from numb nuts though as the military would not go along with him. I would call his brand being far closer to Mussolini, but more dumbed down for the masses of his loyalists that have an IQ of around 30.

I am sitting on the beach this morning and reflecting on life and how I’ve wound up where I am at. I think about the travels around the country I have had over the last 10 plus years and how I have changed and how much more I have yet to learn in the years ahead where I will leave the US behind for pastures that are not greener, yet are places I know I belong at. There have been moments that I felt lower than low and thought it could not possibly be any worse. I put my own happiness in the hands of others instead of finding contentment with myself and that it was okay if a relationship did not work out. It was okay if I failed at that part of the life experience. I read what y’all post about the traumatic events from your own lives and part of me wants to think how could this happen to a person that doesn’t deserve to feel this broken? Another part of me feels that y’all are being given a similar opportunity to the one I had when I felt nothing but despair and hopelessness. You have the opportunity to get up for another day and make yourself into a better version of yourself. It’s a gift we get each day. You don’t have to be religious to think of it like that. We have this infinitesimally small time to be here. I went to see Neil deGrasse Tyson back in February at the AMNH when he brought in five of the world’s leading astrophysicists. One of them currently works for UT. They talked about their disagreement over the age of the universe being either 13.6 or 13.7 billion years old. These absolutely brilliant people quibbled over a 100 million years or so. It was beautiful to watch. The point in mentioning that is that we are here for such a brief time and then we are gone. Do something good for someone today. Make it a habit and be that person that people want around because of how kind you are. Do what you can, while you can before you can’t. I keep that thought with me all through the day. Find joy in the small moments. Find happiness in watching a child’s eyes light up when they see something that is new and exciting to them. Stop and talk to someone that looks like they need a friend. Doing those things will invariably help you get through the day. We all have so much stress upon us for varying reasons and sometimes we just need to take stock of the good things life has for us even in those dark moments some of you are currently experiencing.

There’s a fairly large Haitian community in Stamford, CT as well as one here in NYC. We have a whole bunch of meatheads from Staten Island and Long Island who will believe this pet eating garbage and want to do something about it. We have so many stupid people in this country.

First they came for the geese and MY GOD I WANTED TO HELP THEM GET RID OF THOSE MEAN SOB’S!

Yes we have got to do this. He would have already been on this with multiple calls to each office.

That is absolutely beyond frustrating right there. My gosh that is just horrific.

It was quick and they didn’t make a big deal out of it. Had I not glanced at the American Flag pin and the hair I would’ve missed it since it was just background for a scene.

It was not an overtly political statement. It was a pretty quick scene. Keaton has made his thoughts about the former president pretty clear so putting two and two together the scene made sense as to why it got included in the movie.

These stories are all unique and deserving of being told to wider audiences. Your father’s war experience was harrowing yet he survived to share it with others. We have lost almost all of the veterans from this war and the only way their service record and stories will stay alive is to be retold by children and grandchildren as well as hopefully having been written down. Your father’s experience of potentially having sunk one U-boat may have come from the women in a book I just finished today called Code Girls. Their ability to break the U-boat’s special Enigma code machine was incredible. In doing so they may have and likely did contribute to your father’s safety while out on patrol in the Atlantic waters. Everything we have as a country right is a direct result of this war. All the postwar innovations across the spectrum of America were paid for in the blood of fallen soldiers across thousands of miles of ocean, Europe, Africa and Asia. As a country we just cannot forget what was fought for during that war. We absolutely have to remind others that we are here now because of those people that served on foreign soil. I had a teacher one time who was a friend of Mike Judge so I absolutely am familiar with Hank.

It’ll probably turn some people off I think, but it was a quick scene. I am sure it’ll be discussed though in certain circles. Didn’t really add much to the movie.