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To: Jamie153 who wrote (1292371)	2/11/2021 4:39:44 PM
From: Maple MAGA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579826

Stay out of the boxing ring Jamie.

To: Jamie153 who wrote (1292371)	2/11/2021 10:31:25 PM
From: Maple MAGA	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579826

The Babylon Bee Guide To Being Woke February 11th, 2021 Brought to you by: Woke Fragility (a parody!): Bringing Moderates to Heel Being "woke" is very important in order to show the world you're a good person, and also to avoid having your entire life wrecked by a Twitter mob! In order to achieve success and respect from all the good woke people -- which is the most important thing you can achieve in life -- you need to learn how to be properly woke! Here is our definitive guide: Carefully choose your pronouns and then scream them at everyone you meet: Whenever you go to Costco, loudly scream your pronouns in shoppers' faces. If anyone refuses to celebrate your pronouns, smash a giant box of pretzels over their head and call the manager. Select the most oppressed identity possible: Test people's loyalty to the cause by identifying as a walrus and cancel anyone who doesn't make walrus noises every time they see you. Compare everything to Nazis: Compare everything to Nazis (as long as you're a Democrat. If you're a Republican this might get you fired). Learn to hate the right people: Hate is good when directed at the correct targets. All you have to do is follow the guidelines of a mentally ill Twitter mob who will help steer your hate in the right direction! Pre-order David Hogg's Good Pillow: You want to sleep at night, don't you?? Classify everyone according to their race and not as an individual: Always loudly acknowledge the skin color of every person you talk to and make it the main subject of the conversation. If you are white, do not have any black friends: This may trick you into thinking you aren't racist. To help atone for our racist past, try some casual segregation: Create safe spaces where everyone is segregated by race, gender, and gender identity. It's the only way to achieve unity. Anyone who objects to this is racist. Vote for policies that sound virtuous, no matter how much they actually harm people of color: Always vote for policies with virtuous-sounding names, even if they destroy black and brown communities. Appearance is everything! Always have extremely low expectations of minorities: Be sure to constantly remind them they can never overcome their circumstances without your help. Abandon religion, and instead accept everything the woke crowd believes without question: Your religious beliefs are at odds with others. You should fix that and accept Wokism. Repeat after us: WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. WOKISM IS NOT A CULT. Achieve inner peace by constantly beating yourself up for not doing better: Place a hard yoke and a heavy lifelong burden upon yourself that will never be satisfied and that will never offer grace, forgiveness, or rest. That's pretty much it! Get back to us when you have achieved all these. We'll probably have a new list for ya!

To: Jamie153 who wrote (1292371)	2/12/2021 12:41:53 PM
From: Maple MAGA	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579826

Some insightful words from one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. "Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law." "The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships." "The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself." "Man—every man—is an end in himself." "No man or group may initiate the use of physical force against others." "The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights." "A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force…government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one…reverses its only moral purpose." "When the framers of the American republic spoke of “the people”…they meant a sum of individuals, each of whom…retains his inviolate guarantee of individual rights." "Under a proper social system…a private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; a government official may do nothing except that which is legally permitted…This is the American concept of 'a government of laws and not of men.'” "A 'right'…means freedom from physical compulsion, coercion or interference by other men." "Rights impose no obligations on [neighbors] except of a negative kind: to abstain from violating his rights." "The right to property…does not mean that others must provide him with property." "The right to property…is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee that he will own it if he earns it." "The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible." "The collective cannot decide what is to be the purpose of a man’s existence nor prescribe his choice of happiness." "Man holds…rights, not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective…man’s protection against all other men." "Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right." "If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights." "America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men." "Since only an individual man can possess rights…'individual rights' is a redundancy. But…“collective rights” is a contradiction in terms." "Since the only proper function of a government is to protect man’s rights, it cannot claim title to his life in exchange for that protection." "An individualist…says: 'I will not run anyone’s life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave.'" "No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others." "The doctrine that “human rights” are superior to “property rights” simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others." "Freedom…comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?" "Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature which do not provide men with automatic prosperity." "In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions, and interests dictate." "There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals." "A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort…is…but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule." "It is the institution of private property that protects and implements the right to disagree." "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." "Individual rights are not subject to a public vote…the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities." "What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion." "Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel." "We are fast approaching the stage…where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission." AYN RAND