re: Where do normal people find normal jobs?

Hi there, Tiger Droppings. A relative of mine who works at LSU and who reads this forum told me that you all were talking me. I'm assuming that you found my post courtesy of America's Favorite Emerald Mine Nepo Baby himself sharing it on Twitter, which would explain all of the abusive messages I've been receiving. I hope you all will indulge me while I take a moment to respond.

First of all, I am never going to regret or apologize for the work I've done. I started my career working on clean water and sanitation projects in the Congo. I've managed a project to provide bed nets to children in order to reduce the spread of malaria in Burundi. I've worked on campaigns to stop the spread of diseases you've never heard of (Lassa fever) in Sierra Leone and I've even been involved with "woke" stuff like providing family planning. (Fun fact, the easiest/cheapest way to prevent migration is to encourage people in those countries to have fewer kids). My job can be taken away from me, but the reasons why I work--kindness, decency, compassion--are not something you will ever be able to strip away.

Secondly, I'm not giving up and nor am I going anywhere. Myself and the other 74,999,165 people who voted for Kamala Harris are just as American as you are, we have just as much right to be here as you do, and we will not allow our beliefs about what America should be to be silenced. You may get everything you want, you may "Make America Great Again" by strip-mining our government and our laws so that billionaires and bullies run the show, but you're going to have to work for it. I hope you have the stamina for the job ahead, because me and people like me are going to stand up to you every step of the way.

Finally, I'd like to leave to leave everyone reading with a couple of quotes, although I should probably give many of you a trigger warning since they're both from rather famous anti-fascists and I suspect that you're sensitive about such things.

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The price of freedom is high, it always has been, and it’s a price I’m willing to pay. If I’m the only one, then so be it, but I’m willing to bet that I’m not.

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And secondly (it's a long one but a good one):

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I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish… Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

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