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Last summer I was in Atlantic City for my now-brother-in-law's bachelor party and we attended a club party hosted by Ice-T and Coco at a casino and I was able to get up close for one of the few songs he performed. Just to let you know I'm the last person you'd expect in such a situation but I made the most of it. After snapping this pic, another one of our group spotted him as he was greeting fans off-stage and I snapped a pic of the two.

 

the words liberal and policing remind me....a lot of people have been policing me on here, if you know what i mean.

"don't speak over minorities"
"don't tone police"
> does both things
> no acknowledgement or apology

i'm here to disrupt and make people feel hostile. it's my job because of who i am and what i represent. i'm not going to let leftists and liberals forget how they make people like me feel - they deserve it. that's your privilege for your ignorance over literal decades. this is a matter of indigenous people being annihilated from their homelands and being given little to no acknowledgment or help.

what the fuck do i need to be sorry for? talking about something that people just casually dismiss, as if it isn't a severe problem? and for pointing out the hypocrisy of the Left on this issue? Nah. I'm not sorry esp when no one else is. lol

here's an excerpt from a blog from 2015:

"Assyrians in Iraq were encouraged to identify as Arab Christians. Though they made up the largest population in places such as Qamishle in Syria and Dohuk in Iraq, they were witnessing mass migration of Kurds into these newly industrialised areas. Though they had a vibrant community in Baghdad, the toll of several wars and economic sanctions led to many seeking emigration abroad. Then the 2003 Iraq war and the subsequent problems of Islamic fundamentalist groups further accelerated their emigration.

Though this was all of Iraq’s problem it impacted the Assyrians heavily because they were already a smaller population prone to emigration. They were still asking for autonomy but now in the much smaller Nineveh Plains region where they still made up a slight majority. Just when the Iraqi Government appeared to be moving towards a Nineveh Plains solution, ISIS arrived to expel Assyrians from their ancient capital at Mosul and from part of the Nineveh Plains. In the last week, ISIS captured 250 villagers from the Khabour River in Syria who had fled Simele 80 years earlier.

So, here I am. The Cross around my neck is heavy on this day. Though it saved my people our name and culture in the past, today it is the object of ridicule in my homeland. It has been taken from me so cruelly. I wish I was born at any other time in my people’s history other than this.

I wish I could have seen Assyria when it was new but, alas, I must be there at her sad end. It was one too many calamities in a row the wise men tell me. Still, my last thoughts are with my neighbours. My heart is filled with anger towards the Arabs and the Turks and the Kurds and all those who have torn my land into pieces and grabbed a piece for themselves. My despair and sorrow has filled me with a vengeance such that I wish to curse the land forever and all its inheritors. Yet, the sad eyed man God intervenes. He taught me, above all else, to love my neighbours. So, I love my neighbours. I just wish that they hadn’t killed me for believing in the God of neighbourly love.""

Voices of the Middle East: The Cross Around My Neck is Heavy to this Day

 

Harrah's is the shit...though I've heard they closed their poker room :(

 

twitter being shit again

 

I did it. I need a kidney and going to rochester mn so many times (and this last time esp) has just drained everything we have.

 

Why is there so much support for the Republicans after the legacy of Reagan? A lot of people still adore Thatcher - she was extraordinarily polarizing, not universally despised at all.

 

Sorry to hear that, that's a hard thing to go through.

 

TIL that what I thought about Thatcher wasn't so.

 

Because the American people suck lol...I think for us younger Americans it's strange to see a European country going so far to the right now....of course, that's "to the right" relative to Americans, where your Tories are probably, at worst, moderate right wingers here haha.

 

I should probably not troll on my own website but folks it's really hard not to

 

the news section is at it again

 

What's going on?

 

Riot Fest Announces First Wave of Bands

 

I'm in the 'please give me even a slight reason to ban you' mode with a few people at the moment. Time is a flat circle and all that.

 

Because Reagan crushed the left, with the help of the Democratic Party, so he defined the era.

 

Of course they're all eggs sorry ghosts

 

The political stroking of Reagan (by both parties when convenient) is a top 20 political pet peeve (alliteration is fun) of mine. What a shitty President.

 

Haha. I like my ghost image. But if it becomes associated with harassment, I can just change it to fix the harassment, right?

(I also really don't like that Tater Tot poster.)

 

Remember when Hillary complimented Reagan on his work on AIDS?

 

it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that the news section etc etc

 

that whole convo is like WELL ACTUALLY, BY YOUR LOGIC, YOU'VE PROVED MY POINT! damn its good shit

 

What about Felix?