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   bazkie, washed up nerd (bazkie@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 08:45:49 JST bazkie, washed up nerd

   • Bill

   @bmacDonald94 I wish the US can have a president like him again some day. 🙏

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     (inactive, see below) (aeleoglyphic@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 09:00:56 JST (inactive, see below)

     • Bill

     @bmacDonald94 One of the few actually progressive presidents. Loved this guy.

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     Looking for explanations… (susan60@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 09:39:46 JST Looking for explanations…

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     @bmacDonald94
     I remember when my brother flipped out in a drug related psychotic episode. He was going to fly to Uganda to assassinate Idi Amin, then to the US to ask Carter to tell everyone to put uranium back into the ground. 1977.

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     K.R. O'Connell 🇦🇺 ✅I❌ (rory29@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 09:45:58 JST K.R. O'Connell 🇦🇺 ✅I❌

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     @Susan60 @bmacDonald94
     sounds like a sane thing to do?
     Uranium should never have been used in some of the ways it was?
     Admit idly it was good for x-rays
     we have computer controlled radio waves that do the same job in 3D nowadays
     as for Idi Amin I have heard the name but have no idea what his crime for fame was

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     Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 09:54:01 JST Bill

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     • K.R. O'Connell 🇦🇺 ✅I❌

     @Susan60 @Rory29 ~ You are right, I still confuse them.

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     @bmacDonald94 @Rory29
     Uganda? Libya was Gaddafi.

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     @Rory29 @bmacDonald94

     I suspect that he was AuADHD like me. Very bright, engaged with social justice issues etc (Idi Amin was a brutal Ugandan dictator), & got into drugs of all sorts in his late teens. Personal ethics not as admirable as his broader ones - he bullied me. He managed to get his life together, qualified as a nurse, married & had 2 kids, but was awfully arrogant & life fell apart in his early 40s. Homeless on & off, neglected his health, died of bowel cancer a few years back in his early 60s. (Family history, but he took no action to monitor or his own risk.) I saw him once a few months after his marriage ended, & briefly just before he died. Did that mainly in memory of my mum. He wasn’t a nice person, but I realise that he suffered a lot & might’ve turned out so much better under different circumstances.

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     Looking for explanations… (susan60@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 10:11:02 JST Looking for explanations…

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     @bmacDonald94 @Rory29
     It’s all relative. My brother had the privilege of being “white”, but had other demons. How sad that your father was like that. To suffer racism within your own family must be awful.