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"The Nimrod flip out is another brilliant story. Unfortunately, the next several fall off quality.
Fyi, I came across a story written by a Palestinian author. The title was “a short story writer who doesn’t follow army orders“. It was hilarious. The premise was that a Palestinian writer would drop Etgar Kerats name to get past Israeli check points. Alas, it didn’t work all the time." — May 16, 2026 04:22PM
"The Nimrod flip out is another brilliant story. Unfortunately, the next several fall off quality.
Fyi, I came across a story written by a Palestinian author. The title was “a short story writer who doesn’t follow army orders“. It was hilarious. The premise was that a Palestinian writer would drop Etgar Kerats name to get past Israeli check points. Alas, it didn’t work all the time." — May 16, 2026 04:22PM
“If you can't eat it, drink it, smoke it, or snort it... then f*ck it!”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in intelligence] and some problems move from "impossible" to "obvious." Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious.”
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“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“The drone that even according to the police indeed did fly over Seine-Saint-Denis last July 14th is a picture of the future in much more straightforward colors than all the hazy images we get from the humanists. That they took the time to clarify that it was not armed shows pretty clearly the kind of road we’re headed down.”
― The Coming Insurrection
― The Coming Insurrection
“Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, -
"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart were hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried.”
― Civil Disobedience
"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart were hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried.”
― Civil Disobedience
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