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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1540893)	5/31/2025 6:58:30 PM
From: Maple MAGA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571040

"A dream they, or you, can fulfill by moving to Somalia or Sudan." I am surprised and shocked at your level of racism and dog-whistle logic. Implicit association with race or ethnicity, Somalia and Sudan are majority-Black, African nations. Invoking them sarcastically in contrast to "tax slaves" (a phrase often used by libertarians or anti-tax advocates in Western contexts) suggests that if someone wants fewer taxes or less government, they should move to a "failed" Black or African country, which plays into racialized stereotypes about governance and civilization. Your racist racial slur relies on coded language and stereotypes: Somalia and Sudan are often used in Western discourse to imply chaos, lawlessness, and poverty. The suggestion that one should "go there" implies a lesser status or uncivilized condition, which is inherently demeaning to the people of those countries. It's also dismissive and mocking of any dissent from Western-style governance, especially from those critical of taxation. Underlying premise of superiority, the rhetorical structure implies that Western society is inherently superior, and that the alternative (African nations) is laughably inferior, not on neutral or economic grounds, but culturally and civilizationally. That framing has long historical roots in colonial and racial hierarchies. The invocation of specific African nations to mock the idea of freedom from taxation relies on racialized and derogatory assumptions. Your comment is racially charged and racist.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1540893)	5/31/2025 8:48:38 PM
From: Maple MAGA	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bonefish locogringo miraje Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571040

Somali Muslim Migrant Who Lied About Feeding 1,000,000 Meals to Kids Caught Fleeing U.S. May 30, 2025 3:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield 27 Comments She collected $2.4 million in taxpayer money, but spent less than $2,000 on food. You may remember the $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal out of Minnesota, and if you don’t, here’s a brief primer. The pandemic unleashed a fraud tsunami. Especially in Minnesota where the rules were relaxed and a coalition of fraudsters, many of them Somali, began claiming that they were feeding millions of kids through a nonprofit known as Feeding Our Future. In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021. These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota. The number eventually shot up to $250 million. The initial case made headlines when a juror received a $120,000 bribe. Now a 71th suspect in the $250 million fraud case was caught fleeing the country. The FBI arrested Hibo Daar at MSP before she could board that flight to Dubai. Court records show Daar claimed to serve 1 million meals to children while operating out of an office in a business center on East Hennepin Avenue. She collected $2.4 million in taxpayer money, but federal investigators believe her meal site, “Northside Wellness,” was fake and that she actually spent less than $2,000 on food. In those meal counts, the complaint says that by April 2021, Daar claimed to be serving about 40,000 meals to children every week. Daar’s lawyer said in court that the defendant was traveling to visit her sick mother. But then she got caught in a lie, claiming she hadn’t traveled overseas since 2022. The prosecutors pulled out Daar’s passport and showed she had been traveling regularly since then. Frankly, we should have let her go on the condition that she and her whole family and all their relatives give up their U.S. citizenship.