Constant Scream
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Teacher, writer, story-coach. TradPub refugee & failed iconoclast A story: https://tinyurl.com/k3e23k8a Another: https://l1nq.com/singerinterrupt Letter Prize Winning Unpublished Manuscript: https://tinyurl.com/Albertthelast
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Hi new folks. I follow accounts who a) are experts in their fields, b) journalists with beats I care about, c) amusing, kind, insightful, or any combo thereof, and d) that interact with me in nice ways.

If you want a follow back, be one of those things.
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Especially these sections. This is a man who spent his days watching bodies burn and helped SS officers out Zyclon B into the gas chambers.
W.: If you had a daytime shift, it ended at six in the evening. Then we went to the canteen. Afterwards you could request to leave the camp and you could go as far as the Auschwitz train station. The girls from Katowice, the

nearest larger city, would always go there.

SPIEGEL: So you would leave the camp during the evenings?

W.: Yes, yes, of course. There were many bars. Most played skat and drank beer.

SPIEGEL: What did people talk about?

W.: People weren't enthused about the leadership. We of course knew and everybody almost felt that it couldn't end well, that it couldn't been good when trains were being brought here full of people who were then getting killed. We all had that feeling. But, I SPIEGEL: Do you bear any guilt for what happened?

W.: No, I don't have that feeling. We gave the Jews what was left of our bread, which otherwise would have been thrown away. We set it on their toolboxes near the place where they got water. I never did harm to any Jew. But I also wasn't able to help any of them.

SPIEGEL: Do you feel a something like a sense of moral guilt?

W.: No. I spoke to them in a friendly manner; I never hit, kicked or killed any. I do not feel like a criminal just because I had to guard them. Germany had invaded Yugoslavia and that was a crime against humanity and international law. Then the Nazis conscripted me and brought me to Auschwitz. And how was I supposed to get away from there? If I had deserted, they would have shot me.
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Especially these sections. This is a man who spent his days watching bodies burn and helped SS officers out Zyclon B into the gas chambers.
W.: If you had a daytime shift, it ended at six in the evening. Then we went to the canteen. Afterwards you could request to leave the camp and you could go as far as the Auschwitz train station. The girls from Katowice, the

nearest larger city, would always go there.

SPIEGEL: So you would leave the camp during the evenings?

W.: Yes, yes, of course. There were many bars. Most played skat and drank beer.

SPIEGEL: What did people talk about?

W.: People weren't enthused about the leadership. We of course knew and everybody almost felt that it couldn't end well, that it couldn't been good when trains were being brought here full of people who were then getting killed. We all had that feeling. But, I SPIEGEL: Do you bear any guilt for what happened?

W.: No, I don't have that feeling. We gave the Jews what was left of our bread, which otherwise would have been thrown away. We set it on their toolboxes near the place where they got water. I never did harm to any Jew. But I also wasn't able to help any of them.

SPIEGEL: Do you feel a something like a sense of moral guilt?

W.: No. I spoke to them in a friendly manner; I never hit, kicked or killed any. I do not feel like a criminal just because I had to guard them. Germany had invaded Yugoslavia and that was a crime against humanity and international law. Then the Nazis conscripted me and brought me to Auschwitz. And how was I supposed to get away from there? If I had deserted, they would have shot me.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Strong manly post not scared you're scared.
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
In the early-moderate stages of my mother's dementia, she would perseverate about a single conversation she and her mother had in 1959. Every two or three days we'd hear about it until her mind clouded enough that she lost the memory.
gregdoucette.bsky.social
Honestly kind of funny Trump is still flamingly pissed off over something that happened 6 years ago
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I’m not sure there ever been an investigation more robustly proven valid than the first Trump impeachment. Did he use presidential power for his personal gain? Uh, yeah! I think he probably did!
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
This is funny and also why these chuds always pose for pictures with their AR-15s

"My ammo does my running for me" is a real thing I've read in a reply.
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Out of shape goon squad 🤣
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
What if "Because I said so!" and "we can talk about it later!" had a child that took away all your civil liberties?
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Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Demons don't confront gods, anti-gods do. I suspect he has a full-blown Christ delusion that he's barely containing in public so he views everything that thwarts him as part of the antichrist.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
In the early-moderate stages of my mother's dementia, she would perseverate about a single conversation she and her mother had in 1959. Every two or three days we'd hear about it until her mind clouded enough that she lost the memory.
gregdoucette.bsky.social
Honestly kind of funny Trump is still flamingly pissed off over something that happened 6 years ago
pbump.com
I’m not sure there ever been an investigation more robustly proven valid than the first Trump impeachment. Did he use presidential power for his personal gain? Uh, yeah! I think he probably did!
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Wait I thought the story was that it didn't happen.
paleofuture.bsky.social
Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Gotta love the energy from this guy.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
This is a great thread. I had been comparing Trump to Pisistratus in my Athenian cognates, but the 30 may be more accurate even if their accent is less directly comparable.
bretdevereaux.bsky.social
After the Peloponnesian War - I promise this is relevant - Sparta installed an oligarchic puppet government, the Thirty Tyrants, in Athens.

What rapidly became clear was that Athenian democratic habits were so deeply rooted that tremendous violence would be necessary to remove them.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Driving by and I see lines turning about 45 minutes to an hour before for big movies but IDK about this one two weeks in at a matinee
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
The Salvation Army has always been a brutal christianist organization which holds help hostage in exchange for souls, but this is a new fucking low.
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It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
But I'm not a judge or a lawyer so my idea I'm sure has flaws I don't see.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
This is why I'm uncomfortable w/making the end of lifetime appts part of the package of court reforms. Much more comfortable with having a rotating 13-Member SCOTUS where each member is nom'd by a 2/3 vote of their circuit for a 5-7 year term but DCs remain lifetime. Bad judges won't get nom'd.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
I look forward to reading this and I also look forward to confirming my belief that Trump is the first president where those who dislike him are more likely to think he's keeping his promises than those who like him.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Your daily reminder that law enforcement is mostly an autonomous self-policing body that exists free from the burden of popular oversight. They follow the laws and orders they agree to.
unraveledpress.com
A small number of demonstrators attempted to protest/march in the street.

Massive number of ISP troopers in riot gear responded by blocking 25th, threatening arrest, shouting into megaphone about an unlawful assembly.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
The Salvation Army has always been a brutal christianist organization which holds help hostage in exchange for souls, but this is a new fucking low.
unraveledpress.com
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
ajaxsinger.bsky.social
Curious what he'd say if asked what the immediate precipitating US decision was that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Also if he was familiar with lend lease or how the CPUSA was pro-Nazi right up until Hitler invaded Russia