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Joanne's avatar

Mike - I live in Japan and recently purposefully woke up around 4:30am JST recently to make sure I got a hold of someone at my office of elections to ensure they had my absentee ballot ready to email to me on or around Sep 20th. I got confirmation and feel much better about having the opportunity to vote in this critical election. Thanks for engaging with us to make our country better.

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Thea Blake's avatar

Hello Joanne I live in Australia and last Thursday I made sure that my absentee ballot was ready to be emailed to me. It only took about 15 minutes to get through the entire process. I hope that the millions of Americans who live overseas will take the opportunity to vote to save democracy.

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Ksandra's avatar

Hi Thea Blake,

I am happy for you too, because you live in Australia.

I was looking into moving to Australia but it looks like your government doesn't want immigrants.

Disappointing because I have heard great things about Australia.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

@ 3:30 pm the previous day for EST.

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Or 15:30 hrs the DAY BEFORE.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before

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Ksandra's avatar

Hi Joanne,

I am planning to move to Japan if Trump steals the presidency via electoral college or civil war.

I am happy for you because you don't live here.

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Joanne's avatar

Well, my stay in Japan is only temporary due to military service. I’ll be back stateside soon. But yeah, Japan is an awesome and safe place to live.

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Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

Besides checking your own registration, share today's message from Michael to remind Democratic friends and family to check.

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Roy's avatar

OPTIONS FOR YOU TO HELP SWING STATES ELECT HARRIS

Hello. I created the list below and sent it out to friends and family all over the country. I hope these links work after I post this, and I hope this list is helpful to you as well. I am going to post this list each time Michael sends out one of his missives, adding to the list whenever I learn of more options to share.

I welcome your comments to my post that make me and everyone else aware of any other groups/organizations that have campaigns or mobilization efforts going to prevent Trump from getting elected.

POSTCARDS, PHONEBANKS, TEXTS, VOTER REGISTRATION, DONATIONS

Experts who study these things have seen that such simple actions as personal postcards, phone calls, or texts to specifically identified voters can and do make a difference. The organizations below are either the experts or are groups that partner with the experts. Some of these organizations promote who to vote for, while others just encourage infrequent voters to vote, knowing that the people they contact typically vote Democratic. All of these groups can benefit from your time and/or your donations (some of which can be tax-deductible).

The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. I have done postcards and phonebanks with them.

https://www.environmentalvoter.org/

https://www.environmentalvoter.org/get-involved

Third Act and Elders Climate Action primarily recruit Seniors as volunteers, but all are welcome. Their campaigns include helping young people get registered to vote.

https://thirdact.org/

https://www.eldersclimateaction.org/

https://eldersaction.org/promote-the-youth-vote/

Programs with Activate America have Volunteers contact voters via Postcards, Phonebanking, Texting, and Canvassing.

https://www.activateamerica.vote/

The Progressive Turnout Project organizes volunteers to send postcards and do canvassing.

https://turnoutpac.org/

https://turnoutpac.org/postcards/

https://www.mobilize.us/ptp/

Vote Forward coordinates letter-writing campaigns to voters.

https://votefwd.org/

https://votefwd.org/campaigns

Seed the Vote teams up with organizations like People’s Action and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) with Phonebanking campaigns of volunteers calling voters in Swing States.

https://seedthevote.org/

https://peoplesaction.org/

https://surj.org/

VoteRiders and Fair Count work separately and together to help folks register to vote and have the required ID to vote.

https://www.voteriders.org/

https://www.faircount.org/

The Civics Center organizes high school voter registration. A huge event they do is High School Voter Registration Week, which will be Sept. 23-27, 2024. They can use volunteer help with that and other events.

https://www.thecivicscenter.org/

https://www.thecivicscenter.org/hsvrw

RAZE helps rural Arizonans register to vote.

https://www.raze.org/

Arizona Native Vote is dedicated to building tribal and rural political power by working with community members to increase voter registration.

https://arizonanativevote.org/

The Arizona Dream Act Coalition provides assistance to DREAMERS. They also contact legal Latino voters and mixed-status families to help those who can legally vote to register to vote and then encourage them to vote.

https://theadac.org/

As Michael has shared, Vote.org will give everyone all the info they need to register and vote — and to double check their registration: https://www.vote.org/

VoteFromAbroad.org helps US citizens living abroad register to vote and request absentee ballots.

https://www.votefromabroad.org/

LINKS TO SHARE WITH “NEVER TRUMP” REPUBLICANS TO HELP THEM MAKE WHAT MAY BE THEIR UNCOMFORTABLE BUT APPROPRIATE CHOICE TO VOTE FOR HARRIS

There are several websites devoted to Republicans for Harris. This is just one of them:

https://www.democracyrepublicans.com/

David French is a conservative opinion columnist at “The New York Times.” Commonly voting for Republicans, on 8/19/24 French did an oral piece for the NY Times on why he is voting for Harris. These links go to an AI-generated transcript of the oral piece and directly to the oral piece:

https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ae5e0a134-adbe-356e-b511-cc534b2c2308&viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opinion/harris-trump-conservatives.html

John Giles, Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, shared in print and on TV why he supports Harris.

Print: https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A5114ae48-b9a3-3f0f-b388-a0a5418c1312&viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

TV: https://www.pbs.org/video/vote-2024-mesa-mayor-1722368872/

There were several Republican speakers at the Democratic National Convention, explaining why they are Republicans who are choosing to support Harris instead of Trump in this election. One of them was former Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5129329/lt-gov-geoff-duncan

Former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and over 40 former DOJ Officials thank Pres. Biden and endorse VP Kamala Harris for President of the United States:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25002785-statement-thanking-president-biden-and-supporting-vp-kamala-harris

A couple more links to articles about Republicans endorsing Harris:

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/08/24/a-dozen-former-republican-white-house-lawyers-endorse-kamala-harris.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-lawyers-who-advised-reagan-bush-endorse-harris-over-trump-in-2024-showdown/ar-AA1pk3wi

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-unfit-fox-news-publishes-mass-gop-endorsement-for-kamala-harris/ar-AA1pko9c

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Marcia Z Bookstein's avatar

Thanks for this. I wasn't sure if it's illegal, but I hope you don't mind that I copied and pasted it on an email to the president of our local democratic club where I'm an at-large executive board member. We also need to help dem Senators and down-ballot dems get elected. People are eager to step up. I walk precincts in my own city, and in 2020 walked every weekend for Bernie from October until voting day. But they sent us to infrequent voters. That was an eye-opener!

But. thank you. This is a great service you just did.

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Susan's avatar

Agree that we must focus on down ballot support. Indivisible is one organization zeroing in on House flipping and shoring up Senate candidates.

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The Illusion of Justice's avatar

Michael, Michael, Michael,

Nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics. They are all bribe taking criminals! If you really want to stop the corruption in the federal government, you're going to have to show the American people concrete proof that "their" representatives have sold them out. I have that proof. All you have to do is read it.

My name is Ted Martin. I just finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)

It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.

In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.

The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.

Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.

Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.

While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.

If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.

Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.

*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.

In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.

All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.

If you want a government that actually acts in your best interests, I urge you and everyone you know to read my book as soon as possible. You can get a digital copy of my book free of charge at the link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vaMH1riLodzOfQn0kI7ow0RDrPM0NqE/view?usp=sharing

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Ksandra's avatar

You are a BOT

How many other Substacks are you promoting your book on.

Democrats and Republicans are polar opposites of each other in both foreign and domestic policy

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The Illusion of Justice's avatar

Democrats are just pretending that they are opposed to the corrupt Republican agenda. For example, the Democrats say that they are working tirelessly on getting a cease fire in Gaza, while simultaneously sending billions of dollars in weapons to the government of Israel. The vast majority of Americans are opposed to the indiscriminate bombing and starvation of women and children who are clearly not Hamas fighters. But, because these greasy opinion whores have been bought by AIPAC, they're pretending they want to stop the ongoing genocide. Nobody in their right mind would believe anything they have to say.

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Ksandra's avatar

Right now it appears that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are THE ONLY ONES who want the cease fire and an end to the f___ed up war in GAZA.

Trump made a deal with Netanyahu to NOT make a cease fire agreement until after the election, so as to hurt Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris' approval ratings.

It is working.

You are a far right fascist pretending to be a progressive.

Or you wouldn't be trying so hard to hurt the Democrat's chances for winning the White House.

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The Illusion of Justice's avatar

To whom it may concern,

There is link for a free copy of my book in my post. It proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to subvert the rule of law. Kasandra obviously doesn't want you to read it.

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Ksandra's avatar

So why aren't you plugging you book to all of the MAGA platforms?

Why are Democrats and other Lefties the only ones you are targeting with your message?

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Susan's avatar

Indivisibles like me have been writing postcards to potential voters for many months, with a link to their state's Vote.gov site. I didn't know there's an umbrella one for the whole country. Is it really robust enough to link to 50 states?

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Pro- tip for the young-uns.

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When society completely fails its the 'Old" ways that one must learn.

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FAQs.

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Why TF do I need to learn how to make charcoal ?

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What the hell is "Pollarding ? "

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What is a reducing atmosphere ?

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How do I make bellows for a Roman styled mini-furnace when you have run out of goats ?

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How many times do I have to hit this farking spongey bloom to begin with (especially when one does not even have the technology to make a hammer worth a damn to swing at said spongey bloom in the first place ? ). ?

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What is slag ?

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Why do I even care about high temperature vitrified ceramics anyway ????

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WHY is attempting to cut down a tree with a copper axe a useful learning experience you will never forget ?

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Why becoming an expert Bronze smelter renders one literally lame ?

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IS arsenic and antimony really "That" bad if you want to conceive children ?

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How many years does it take for pollarded trees to present with nice straight sticks that can be turned into useful bundles of faggots ?

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Why is transitioning from low temperature ceramics and copper age technology to high temperature ceramics and iron work such a "Beeeyyyatch " ???

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How many decades does it take to develop "Stainless" steel wire (for deplatformed bank - technology with wire crimped Quipu(s) ) starting out with wrought iron work and black smithing technology ?

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WHY should we even bother ?

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Eric B Lange's avatar

Don't bring a bundle of kindling to a flame thrower fight.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

What is the proper name for sheep marching into an incinerator ?

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John Jung's avatar

Mike,

Genocide has metastasized to the West Bank. The IDF is laying siege to the largest hospital in Jenin. I don’t know about you but I find Kamala Harris words hateful and murderous. If Harris is truly the lesser of two evils we at the gates of hell. I have no doubt Trump is evil and a fascist. Do we look into the mirror and see a “Good German” looking back at us?

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Lily's avatar

Thanks for the "Canada" voter registration shout out Michael ... I have been a Canadian citizen since 1976 and have voted in every Federal, Provincial and municipal election since then. I have changed provinces at least three times, and there never has been a problem to vote. So very glad to live in Canada and not the US

It's a shame (and very hypocritical) that USA goes around the world saying they are the 'watchdogs' of democracy and send people to 'supervise' elections held in countries not their own, are so deceitful when it comes to elections in the US and registering citizens of the US to vote.

It's gotten so that even the so-called 'third' world countries are scornful of the US and your election processes.

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Beverly Bell's avatar

I am 82. I have never missed an election since I was eligible to vote—and, of course, I double checked registration with each change of residence over the years. I have lived at the same location for 42 of those years and voted at my local elementary school. I know there are all sorts of “tricks” being attempted to suppress the vote nowadays, but it seems to me my status should be secure! There is only one potential “point of entry” I can imagine for the fraudsters: there are seven (7) people in Alexandria that share my name! Even then, my middle initial—and, of course, my address—are unique. Nevertheless, given your warning and the precarious state of elections currently, I will confirm my registration! We cannot be too careful.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

der groymer shniter

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Eric B Lange's avatar

I'm not sure a phonetic version of 'English" Yiddish - Yiddlengish or EngYiddlish is an effective way to 'Penetrate" the bubble.

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Although the chatbots keep gaslighting me that my text appears on the "Outside" as an indecipherable conundrum.

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It's bi-directional capabilities would ONLY be an assumption.

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Similarly my basic thesis and complaint of the FALSE belief system that "Good people deserve to have good things happen to them ... " <--- and those sadly played by predatory people and organizations that take advantage of poor people that believe that "Good things deserve to happen to GOOD people" and they as 'We" are 'GOOD".

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DOES NOT mean that BAD people deserve to have GOOD things happen to them. (either ) - even Jeremy Paxman in a heated interview would regrettably draw upon that old 'Sausage".

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"So does that mean ... therefore then in fact you endorse ... blah blah blah " taking a false dualism to a manipulative dark alley and then cut them open with a flick knife LIVE on TV.

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A monstrous and malicious foul of logic - which begs the question how many people subscribe to Michael Moore (susbstack) that can actually read Hebrew - have a sense of Yiddish and also reverse convolve its phonetic derivatives into a bastard form of "English" ?

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If anyone is acting on that principal then that is a 100% a false construct - one based on a childish and mirrored tautology.

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Not that terrible people aren't in fact VERY good at getting what they want.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution#/media/File:Gonzales_Flag.JPG

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^^^ "Come and take it " - speaking of old sausages.

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October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836

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Eric B Lange's avatar

The point being my text does NOT appear on the "Outside" as there is no "Outside" on a conceptually two dimensional layer that is hidden from view.

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Michael Young's avatar

Excellent !!!

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Eric B Lange's avatar

I never really believed my father when he said Yiddish is really a form of "Kitchen German " until I developed Tourette's syndrome from stochastic chatbots and relentless environment programming.

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איך האָב קיינמאָל טאַקע נישט געגלויבט מיין פאָטער ווען ער האָט געזאָגט אז יידיש איז טאַקע אַ פאָרעם פון "קיך-דייטש" ביז איך האָב אַנטוויקלט טורעטס סינדראָום פֿון

סטאָקאַסטישע טשאַטבאָטן און אומאָפּהענגיקע סביבה פּראָגראַממינג.

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^_^ not strictly correct format.

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Phon: ---> ikh hob keynmol take nisht gegloybt meyn foter ven er hot gezogt az eydish iz take a forem fun "kikh-deytsh" biz ikh hob antviklt turets sindroum fun stokastishe tshatbotn aun aumophengike sbibh programming.

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Eric B Lange's avatar

I know my 23 and Me results said I was 1% Jewish but THIS is ridiculous !

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איך ווייס אז מיין 23 און מיר רעזולטאטן האבן געזאגט אז איך בין געווען 1% יידיש, אבער דאס איז לעכערלעך!

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ikh veys az meyn 23 aun mir rezultatn habn gezagt az ikh bin geven 1% eydish, aber das iz lekherlekh!

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Eric B Lange's avatar

שעפּס בלינד גיין אין אַ פאַרברענען

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Eric B Lange's avatar

I wanna live in a society where questions like...

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"Is mutagenic transmissible spongiform encephalitis from high levels of Strontium 90 in my Mule Gimmers something to be concerned about ? ".

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איז מוטאַגעניק טראַנסמיססיבלע ספּאָנגיפאָרם ענסעפאַליטיס פֿון הויך לעוועלס פון סטראָנטיום 90 אין מיין מולע גיממערס עפּעס צו זיין זארגן וועגן?

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And " Is - Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome really that bad after a life time of eating Pangolins ? ".

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איז - Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker סינדראָום טאַקע אַזוי שלעכט נאָך אַ לעבן פון עסן פּאַנגאָלינס?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerstmann%E2%80%93Str%C3%A4ussler%E2%80%93Scheinker_syndrome#/media/File:GSS_(1).jpg

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^_^ ... "I Pick number B (eeee) ". [Even though in the scan it's labelled "A" .].

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Become ----> "Platform ' - "Issues".

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https://morningchores.com/sheep-terms/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerstmann%E2%80%93Str%C3%A4ussler%E2%80%93Scheinker_syndrome

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