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Godspeed, protect your country!

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USA. My friend’s house. The door had not fully opened, and love was already charging at me. A dog. Running. Jumping. Tail moving at dangerous speed. I stopped my friend. “Is this an attack?” He laughed. “He likes you, man.” LIKES ME. In my land, affection often arrives carefully. A nod. A small smile. Maybe tea. Feelings remove their shoes before entering the room. Here, affection had paws, speed, and no braking system. This is not a greeting. This is friendship with impact damage. The dog reached me with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — I was hit by joy. Paws on my chest. Tongue near my face. Tail destroying the air around us. My friend warned me. “Don’t worry, he’s friendly.” Too late. Friendly had already made physical contact. Honor demanded I receive it. A man cannot refuse sincere diplomacy just because it arrives at forty miles per hour. By the time I sat on the couch, I was a ruined man. I was not clean. I was not balanced. I had been defeated by welcome. A love that arrives before permission cannot be understood. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with American dogs. When the door opens, brace the soul. Who am I deceiving. I want him to do it again. I was knocked backward by friendship, and I accept the treaty.
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Los musulmanes de toda Europa están conmocionados tras la histórica y valiente decisión de Suecia: dejará de usar el término «islamofobia», acuñado por los Hermanos Musulmanes, por considerarlo un concepto manipulado políticamente para silenciar las críticas al islam. La ministra de Asuntos Exteriores sueca, Maria Malmer Stenergard, anunció que su gobierno presionará a la Unión Europea y a las Naciones Unidas para que dejen de usar este término fraudulento. El concepto de «islamofobia» fue diseñado deliberadamente para equiparar la crítica legítima a la doctrina islámica con el racismo. Se utilizó como arma para silenciar el debate sobre textos islámicos fundamentales que contienen mandamientos para hacer la guerra, violar y someter a los no musulmanes. Suecia acaba de reconocer lo que millones de europeos ya saben: criticar una religión que abiertamente llama al asesinato y la esclavitud sexual de los no creyentes no es una fobia, sino sentido común y autoconservación. Esto supone un duro golpe para el lobby islamista en toda Europa. ¿Estás de acuerdo con la decisión de Suecia?
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🚨 BREAKING: In a bombshell moment, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ABOLISHES H-1B VISAS from being used at state universities "We can do it with Florida RESIDENTS or AMERICANS! If we can't? Then man, we need to REALLY look deeply at what's going on with this situation!" DeSantis exposed that H-1B AUDITS found colleges were bringing in Chinese people on visas to talk to students about "public policy," among other issues. "Why do we need to bring someone from CHINA to talk about public policy?!" "I am directing today the Florida Board of Governors to PULL THE PLUG on the use of these H-1B visas at our universities." HUGE! I LOVE my state! @GovRonDeSantis ☀️
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This country. A driveway. My neighbor Dale owns a truck, and I have discovered who actually defends this nation. Monday, a family down the street moved. Dale's truck. Wednesday, a tree limb fell on Mrs. Carter's fence. Dale's truck. Friday it snowed, and an unspoken signal traveled the block, and Dale appeared with a plow blade like a one-man cavalry. No one pays him. No one drafts him. He is summoned by need alone. "Dale," I asked, "who do you serve?" "What?" "Who commands the truck?" He thought about it. "Whoever's stuck, I guess." WHOEVER IS STUCK. Eight hundred years of military philosophy in my bloodline, and this man in a hoodie has perfected it: a standing army of one, sworn to the realm of Whoever Is Stuck. In my land, a lord keeps soldiers for his own gate. Dale keeps a truck for everyone's gate. I offered him my loyalty. He offered me a beer. We were both confused by the other's gift and accepted anyway. That is diplomacy. I asked what I could do to repay the block's debt to him. He said, "Help me load a couch Saturday." I have never trained harder for anything. The couch was heavy. I was not strong enough. I want to say I was. I was not. Dale carried his end and most of mine and said "good lift" anyway, which is the kindest lie in the language. A man with a truck does not ask who needs him. He has already backed into the driveway. I cannot buy a truck yet. So I have become the man who shows up when the truck does. Every truck needs a vanguard. Dale has not approved this title. Dale does not need to.
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What’s living in the UK like? I’ll tell you. In the last week alone we have had to process: -an attempted beheading by an illegal migrant from Sudan in Belfast -while still trying to make sense of a boy, Henry Nowak, being stabbed to death while police were more anxious about allegations of “racism” than trying to save his life -then we learn children in Scotland were assaulted by Bulgarians while the police didn’t believe them either -while reading that a vulnerable 18-year-old was r*ped by an asylum-seeker from Pakistan -while an asylum-seeker from Iraq got only 6 years for r*pe -while an Iraqi national, was found guilty of eight counts of r*pe and grooming children as young as 12 -and his friend from Iran who arrived illegally skipped bail and is on the run -and now we learn that a teenage girl has been stabbed in the neck by no doubt “a local man” in Burnley. That’s one week in the UK. Oh, and the Left say talking about all this is “divisive”, they blame social media and Elon Musk, and local councils have told us not to fly our national flag because it might “intimidate” migrants. One week. The UK. 🤡
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I guess I wasn’t expecting Kieran to bring in time travel.
Replying to @TechNative
What if this is happening from another time as a way to alter the time stream..
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This is how they treat their own country. What makes you think they’ll treat ours any different?
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The University of Oklahoma (@UofOklahoma) just filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Associate Director of Big Screens and Game Entertainment Salary: $53,000 No American citizen was qualified for this job.
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Quite reminder. POLICE 107,000 POLITICIANS 650 ISLAM 4 MILLION OTHER RELIGIONS 2 MILLION NATIVE CHRISTIAN POPULATION 64 MILLION. THE GOVERNMENT AND IT'S PETS ARE MASSIVELY OUTNUMBERED. THE MOB GET'S ORGANISED THE GOVERNMENT FALLS.
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"This press conference is solely for those pieces of sh*t who are right there!" Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods exploded on a reporter who ignored the subject of his press conference -- a sting conducted to capture child sex offenders -- and asked about an unrelated case.
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USA. A baseball stadium. Fifty thousand people stood up in order, section by section, and nobody knows who gave the command. I saw it coming from across the field. A ripple of bodies. Arms up, then down. Moving toward us like weather. "What is that?" I asked the boy next to me. "The wave. Stand up when it gets here." "Who started it?" "Nobody knows, man. Somebody." Somebody. In my land, to move fifty thousand men you need a warlord, a banner, three years of campaigning, and excellent drums. Here, one bored stranger in section 134 raises his arms, and an army obeys. I watched it approach. Section by section. Strangers who will never meet, rising for each other. The man with nachos rose, holding the nachos. The nachos rose too. Nothing was spilled. I do not know how. It reached us. I rose. My arms went up before my honor could discuss it. I made a sound I have not made since childhood. I will not describe the sound. Then it passed, and we sat, and it was someone else's duty now. "Will it come back?" I asked the boy. "If it's a good one." It came back. Three times. Each lap weaker, like an old soldier, until somewhere in the outfield it died, and the whole stadium sighed together — fifty thousand people mourning a wave they had built themselves. No one commands it. No one owns it. It asks, and you answer, and for six seconds you matter to a stranger in section 134. A wave does not recruit. It arrives, and you were always a member. I am told this also happens at football games. I will be attending.
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🚨 WOW! Spencer Pratt just dropped this after they stole the LA mayoral election from him — he’s about to drop BOMBSHELLS he was saving for the general election! “We have some recordings of one of your insulting candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame.” 🤯 “I was saving it for the general election. Go ahead and pick your demon, certify your choice, and then you get to see it.” “You think you can get rid of me that easily?” “Karen, Nithya, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?” 🔥🔥🔥 “I'm going to be lighting you up every single day and now I don't have to worry about offending CNN viewers.” “I don't have campaign laws hamstringing me now. It's WAR. It's zero hour for Los Angeles!” x.com/spencerpratt/status/20…

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🚨 BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds. Read that again. Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen. Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get TORCHED. For once, the IRS is being deployed FOR AMERICANS FIRST — not against working families. Follow the money. Audit everything. Prosecute whoever broke the law. Music to my ears. Thank you, Sec. Bessent. 🇺🇸
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Yes. Their current ‘government’ is bent on destroying them… while jailing teachers that refuse to bow to woke indoctrination, and continuing on filling small towns with hundreds of muslim men and the third world… using their own citizens’ taxes to destroy them…
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I pray these patriots use wisdom and discernment. I hope their message is understood & the world governments responsible pay the price for their treachery. This fight is not about race, this is simply good vs evil, right vs wrong. Islam has no place in a civilized society.
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USA. A hibachi restaurant. My American friends brought me here to enjoy the cuisine of my homeland, and I witnessed a ritual I have never seen in eight hundred years of being Japanese. The chef stacked onion rings into a tower. He filled it with oil. And he set it on fire. "THE VOLCANO!" my friends cheered. They knew the ritual. They had seen it many times. In Japan, I have eaten ten thousand meals. No one has ever built me a volcano. I said nothing. A guest does not question the ceremony. "Is this how they do it back home?" my friend asked, glowing with joy. "...The technique is flawless," I said. A samurai may retreat. He may not lie. He may, however, aim the truth very carefully. Then the chef flicked a shrimp through the air at my face. "Catch it!" the table roared. In my land, food is set before you with two hands and an apology for the wait. Here, the shrimp attacks. I caught it. With my mouth. The table erupted. The chef saluted me with his spatula. I have received medals with less pride. "You're a natural," the chef said. "My family has trained for this for generations," I said. It was not technically a lie. We trained. Just not for this. My friends drove me home, full and happy, honored to have shown me my own country. A man does not question the volcano. He catches the shrimp. Whatever this cuisine is, wherever it was truly born — the fire is real, the joy is real, and I caught what was thrown at me. That is Japanese enough.
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