3. TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bomb...

TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"

Nazis don't exist any more. What you call Nazis nowadays are garden variety white males who rightfully see the Communist-Homosexual-Jewish-Bomb-Throwing-Family-destroying Axis as unacceptable, disingenuous and threatening to human progress. Which it is.

You people may be able to throw bombs. You can't make life. You can't make a country work. You can't even change a flat tire. That's why Stalin chased you out of the Soviet Union. You do nothing but burn, pillage, party, fuck each other in the ass and then fuck each other over. There is no cohesion and that's been demonstrated time and again. If you think you can get 3 or more Lesbians to agree on anything you're dreaming.

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