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One of those web logs from the 2000s but back for some reason

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It’s also one of two pieces of currency Abraham Lincoln is on. The other is the five dollar bill, I had to remind myself because I can’t remember the last time I touched cash. Guess the current president, and his followers, just need one less reminder what a decent president looks like. Did you ever look super closely at the back of the penny, where you can see Abe sitting in the memorial? Of course you have. But if not, do it. It’s pretty cool.
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Some say you can’t have a country that isn’t protected by a wall. No. Walls are built for control, not protection. Walls are things built by regimes, while countries are generally comfortable with lines on a map and maybe some friction at borders. And the very idea that somebody should be shot and killed for merely existing in the wrong patch of territory is anathema to liberty and the very idea of liberal democracy. Fuck Maggie Thatcher, but a good line is a good line: “Every stone bears witness to the moral bankruptcy of the society it encloses.”
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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"fell down" lmao look at me using the police passive voice
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I would never quote Maggie Thatcher unless it was a good line
Some say you can’t have a country that isn’t protected by a wall. No. Walls are built for control, not protection. Walls are things built by regimes, while countries are generally comfortable with lines on a map and maybe some friction at borders. And the very idea that somebody should be shot and killed for merely existing in the wrong patch of territory is anathema to liberty and the very idea of liberal democracy. Fuck Maggie Thatcher, but a good line is a good line: “Every stone bears witness to the moral bankruptcy of the society it encloses.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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