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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 01:50:49 JST Alex Gleason
   Humans think we're so good but we can't even cross geopolitical borders without a passport. You know why can? Butterflies. We did this to ourselves.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 01:55:27 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @alex Butterflies are pretty and they hang out for a bit then leave of their own accord without coercion. If human guests would behave the same way, I'm sure most would agree with you.
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     MattZ (colinsmatt11@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 01:57:58 JST MattZ

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     @alex A man bound to a land is no different from a corpse buried in it.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 01:59:28 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Ever Beedle
     @dave "Industrial society and its consequences..."
     
     There are pros and cons to the ways of humans vs other species. We are not better, we're different.
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     Ever Beedle (dave@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 01:59:29 JST Ever Beedle

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     @alex We can’t do it without a passport because we’re so good. We are the apex predators, and need some level of restraint.

     You might think it’s dumb since for you it’s just a formality and you aren’t planning on doing anything (substantively) illegal in your host country, so the population doesn’t need to be protected from you.

     But they definitely need to be protected from some people, who are predators that don’t intend to abide by the host country’s laws.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:01:49 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Ever Beedle
     HURR DURR BORDERS ARE IMAGINARY AND EXIST FOR NO REASON, TUNE IN FOR MORE HOT GLOBALIST TAKES!
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:04:18 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Is this a variation of “you will own nothing and be happy”?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:06:22 JST Alex Gleason

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     @bot @dave >complaining about globalism
     >being on the internet
     
     Go back to your yurt.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:10:53 JST Alex Gleason

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     • JAJAX
     @JAJAX @dave I'm basically saying all lives matter and you're saying I'm saying no lives matter. I don't follow your logic.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:10:54 JST JAJAX

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     • Ever Beedle
     @alex @dave poster boy for postmodernist chemical castration
     
     when you're saying it's the same existential value to being a dog versus a human you're saying there's no particular value in life itself. that it's just as well to be a tree or even a rock. or worse, you're taking a hedonistic view of things-- "well a dog is having fun and doesn't need to know about taxes!"
     
     I'm not saying you're "wrong" in particular, I'm saying you debase yourself with your ideology.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:11:35 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Ever Beedle
     You know a lot of animals are extremely territorial right? Your analogy doesn’t even make sense.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:18:52 JST Alex Gleason

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     @bot @dave Right, humans are animals and we have varying traits different from and in common with other species, to varying degrees. This supports my worldview. Birds can fly, monkeys can jump, and butterflies can travel to Mexico without a passport.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:20:16 JST Alex Gleason

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     • JAJAX
     @JAJAX @dave I didn't say that, retard. You're arguing with yourself in the comments of my post.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:20:17 JST JAJAX

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     @alex @dave it's ok for a dog to like being a dog, or a tree to find intrinsic value in being a tree. I love all forms of life because they have this primal energy, this will-to-flourishing-- what you're saying is inherently demeaning. It's steeped in straight up self-hatred. You don't want to be the best man you can be, you seem to not even want to be at all.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:20:17 JST JAJAX

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     @alex @dave Basically, in order to say "my life has no meaning that couldn't be expressed in the life of a cat" as a HUMAN, you have to feel like there's no value in being human. It takes a base, especial loathing for humanity.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:21:54 JST Alex Gleason

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     @JAJAX @dave You love government bureaucracy? You love waiting at the DPS and filling out forms?
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:21:55 JST JAJAX

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     @alex @dave OMG HUMANS ARE SO DUMB THEY HAVE BORDERS AND SHIT wait no no I don't hate humanity
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:26:38 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • JAJAX
     Your op implied humans are somehow inferior for having borders. Animals also have and maintain borders to protect their in group and access to resources. Maybe not retard animals like bugs, but that’s irrelevant.
     
     But yes, I support communities banding together to form organisations that control access and exclude potentially malicious or predatory individuals.
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     Space Elf (spaceelf@leafposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:28:49 JST Space Elf

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     @bot @JAJAX @alex @dave Social insects wage war to defend the territory they select as their own. These wars are both internal to a species, and external with other species. All social animals recognize territory. It is a complex behavior. Many non-social animals also recognize it. Even Corals & plants will fight for real estate.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:28:55 JST Alex Gleason

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     @JAJAX @dave Absolutely. I value these things about being human. But I also see value in other species and don't think we're inherently superior to other species on every axis.
     
     Believing you're not superior to others based on innate characteristics does not mean you have self-hatred. I'm very much confident with my place in the world.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:28:56 JST JAJAX

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     • Ever Beedle
     @alex @dave I understand that those things are parts of a system that exists for a REASON, in this case a good reason.
     
     You know there are a lot of species of animals that just kill others who just haplessly wander into their territory, right? There's no process, no authority to appeal to, no lawyer getting in front a jury arguing "my client shouldn't be killed because you didn't post clear warnings that this was your turf!" No. You just die and that's the end of it.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 02:41:55 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • JAJAX
     Right, and it’s just an extension of self defence. I don’t know as much as you do about animal behaviour, but I would bet even migratory species are territorial.
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     KitlerIs6" (kitleris6@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 05:02:50 JST KitlerIs6"

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     Also anyone who actually is divorced from that goes extinct because that sort of thinking is essential to the long term survival of your descendants.
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     Space Elf (spaceelf@leafposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 05:02:51 JST Space Elf

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     • JAJAX
     @bot @JAJAX @alex @dave They tend to dislike the presence of competitors within their "personal space". The reason that territory is so important is that when you have a higher population, you strain the available food within your evolutionary niche. It also threatens your capacity to spread your genetics.
     
     Evolution has hard baked into you an understanding that Tom from down the road, who has the same ancestors as you if you go back ~2000 years is more closely related to you than Tamagotchi Anime, 37, resident of Japan, whose closest common ancestor with you was Grungo McGrungunugus, Warlord of Gomaggo, 39,000 BC. You are hard coded to prefer things more closely related to you out of survival interest for your genes. You can't be divorced from that instinct. Anyone who says they are, is lying.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 05:26:14 JST JAJAX

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     • JAJAX
     @KitlerIs6 @SpaceElf @alex @bot @dave Also some of big bird's direct progeny were kind of useless, and didn't compete so well. It's not noted if they died or just didn't thrive and reproduce, but the ones that did well persisted and turned into that new species.
     
     It's not something you want to do willy nilly, knowing that the price of failure is death for the offspring of the experiment that turn out to not work so well. This insensitivity to death that is brought along with openness, IMO, explains why extreme progressives don't have a strong revulsion to things like pedophilia and can entertain ideas like child sex changes etc.
     
     But still, we don't want to become completely closed, because it hamstrings our ability to evolve. We need to take it slowly, to try things in very small increments, to change gradually while making sure we're not doing something that's going to end up killing us.
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     JAJAX (jajax@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 05:26:15 JST JAJAX

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     • KitlerIs6"
     @KitlerIs6 @alex @dave @SpaceElf @bot This isn't an ironclad rule, though. Out-group favoritism DOES, in some situations, have benefits. It is exemplified in humans by the trait of openness (you can think of it as progressiveism). It's a way to accelerate evolution in unstable environments, or environments with newly available niches to exploit. Any individual probably has a worse chance of producing long-term surviving offspring, but one of the out-breeders has a very good chance of eventually hitting upon a good combination that exploits the new niche better than others and can be the foundation of a new species (or in the case of humans, tribe, nation, or civilization).
     
     I can illustrate it in lower organisms with things we've observed. For example, there was a population of birds on a small isolated rocky island in the galopagos that was unable to eat tough opuntia cactus seeds because they didn't have a strong beak, but the persisted in the environment because they had an instinct to build nests on the ground. (I may have details of this story wrong but the basic idea is intact) During a storm, a bird the researchers named "big bird" blew in from another island, and he had a strong beak and could eat cactus seeds. He wasn't closely related to the native finches, but he eventually convinced a couple of females from species that were native to the island to mate with him, and his hybrid offspring that could both nest in rocks AND eat cactus seeds expanded into the previously unexploited niche on the island.
     
     Anyway, this all loops back around to the closely related favoritism-- the newly created species and the native species on the island wouldn't mate with each other. Even in such a new (sub)species, they had an instinct to only mate with their own kind -- makes sense, because any shuffling of the genes when you're already in a stable environment runs the risk of deleterious combinations of traits. Don't mess with something that works, and all that.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 05:27:10 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Except when the practical outcome is el goblino del norte instead of a stronger beak.
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     GroundBeefHunter (groundbeefhunter@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 05:27:24 JST GroundBeefHunter

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     @alex @dave @bot Yes, some animals don't care about borders, other animals with sophisticated brains and social structures do. Some animals are territorial even with members of its own species, so what they do? They avoid each other's territory.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:29:03 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • book
     Just want to add that anarchists are retarded anyway so their opinions don’t count.
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     book (book@sneed.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:29:04 JST book

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     @xianc78 @bot @alex @dave Yes it does; Yes they are, in practice.
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     xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:29:05 JST xianc78

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     @bot @alex @dave Not believing in borders doesn't make you a globalist. Anarchists aren't globalists.

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     book (book@sneed.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:34:41 JST book

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     @bot @xianc78 @alex @dave
     
     >I'm not a globalist I just want the entire globe to be a single community with no borders or differences in legal systems
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:35:07 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Anarchists are the trannies of politics. They believe in something that will never be.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:42:24 JST Alex Gleason

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     @book Thank you for really taking the time to understand me instead of just making things up.
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     book (book@sneed.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:42:25 JST book

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     >we can't even cross geopolitical borders without a passport.
     You are advocating the abolition of nations.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:43:36 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     Is anyone stopping you from elaborating?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:44:55 JST Alex Gleason

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     @book My post is a lighthearted comment and not a political statement. I recommend taking a shower and trying to find a gf.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 08:51:21 JST Alex Gleason

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     @groundbeefhunter @dave @bot What's that map?
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     marlin (marlin@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:02:53 JST marlin

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     @alex @groundbeefhunter @dave @bot earthlymission.com/gps-tracking-shows-how-much-wolf-packs-avoid-each-others-range/
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:05:20 JST Alex Gleason

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     @TheLocoBandito @KitlerIs6 @judgedread @Youngblood You're aware you're shit talking me through software I built, right? If "your people" aren't so retarded why can't they build software...
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     TheLocoBandito (thelocobandito@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:05:21 JST TheLocoBandito

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     Cuckface McSoyBeard is against borders, News at 11.
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     KitlerIs6" (kitleris6@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:05:22 JST KitlerIs6"

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     Alex is retarded, he was saying that,
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     Youngblood (youngblood@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:05:25 JST Youngblood

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     Adding to that, illegal immigrants are a danger to our citizens. I remember hearing about a case where this woman got abducted, most likely into sex trafficking, and all signs pointed to it being by the workers her landlord had hired for renovations on her apartment. These workers were illegal and disappeared without a trace though. No identity, no accountability. Anyone who is for open borders is a moron. I don't know if Alex was saying that though, I hope his post was just surface level differences between butterflies and humans (and why more complex brains creates a NEED for more structure).
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     Judge Dread :verified: (judgedread@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:05:26 JST Judge Dread :verified:

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     @alex 50,000 wetbacks a day prove you wrong.
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     LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:16:20 JST LostInCalifornia

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     @alex It’s not just the border though. We used to get clouds of monarchs in the California desert north of the border, then they tore up the milkweed for condos and golf.

     https://www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/

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     GroundBeefHunter (groundbeefhunter@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:21:38 JST GroundBeefHunter

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     @alex @dave @bot Wolf packs from Minnesota (voyageurswolfproject.org/).
     Here's a more recent image
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     TheLocoBandito (thelocobandito@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:36:11 JST TheLocoBandito

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     Your point? Bill Gates invented some computer shit and he's still a fag. Get over yourself soyboy.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 09:36:11 JST Alex Gleason

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     @TheLocoBandito @judgedread @Youngblood @KitlerIs6 You want to know what I actually think, I think borders are necessary. It's you, with your head so far up your political compass quiz, that politicized my lighthearted post. My post was inspired by not being able to obtain a passport due to government bureaucracy. Why does my opinion even matter? You seem to think it does, even though you just told me that it doesn't.
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     H3rman (40dba08627a2f2c69c3031666149b567168f049894aa5c42203a3920a3de8483@mostr.pub)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 12:49:58 JST H3rman

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     Territory of different wolf packs.
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     Doc (d0c40r0@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 14:12:02 JST Doc

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     Monsieur Alexander are you retarded
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 14:12:02 JST Alex Gleason

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     @d0c40r0 I'm not retarded, I'm King of the Retards. Your poor Mark Zuckerberg.