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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026 I love this country with a deep adoration that cannot be described. The United States took in my parents, two Holocaust survivors with little more than the shirts on their backs, and treated them with kindness and dignity and most importantly, provided them with the opportunity to overcome their tragic pasts and make new lives for themselves and their children (one of whom is me). I have always been eternally grateful for the United States and have always tried to return the favors done for me by being a good citizen - voting in every election, cooperating with the census, serving jury duty when called. I also have taught my children to love this country too. But this year, for the first time in my 61 years on this planet, I am just not in the mood to celebrate the 4th. I just don't feel like this is my country any more. I thought the United States was always going to be the paragon of reason and justice and fairness, setting a good example for the rest of the world. I never had to worry about my government not protecting me with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I never had to worry about government interference with my existence as a Jew. But no more. Every day, I wake to another story about Jew-hating politicians in New York and other parts of the country who are gaining influence and achieving public office. And they are achieving these accomplishments not in spite of their anti-Semitism but because of it. Its policy with them now. Its not enough for Jewish politicians to bend over to this new breed of Jew-haters - they have to voiceferously parrot their beliefs and even in some cases, that is not enough. These Jew-haters insist on politicians agreeing with them that Jews in Israel should be thrown into the sea - meaning that Jews are not entitled to a safe haven, are not entitled to self-determination and are not entitled to protect themselves from enemies. And every day, I read about more and more politicians who are embracing this. It makes me very, very sad. And to make it clear - the anti-Semitism of these people is not limited to Israel and Zionism. Those are just code words, like Bolsheviks and Communists were in the early Nazi era. I was raised by Holocaust survivors so I know Jew-hatred when I see it. And I am seeing it, every single day. And nobody seems to be able to stop it - or even really care enough to want to. As Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill said, all it takes for evil to take hold is for good people to do nothing. And good people are doing nothing. Its hard being hated every day of your life by millions and millions of people you don't know, and will never know. Its worse when the country you were borh in and love is growing that hatred inside it.
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Posted by LuchAAA* on Thu Jul 2 14:32:51 2026, in response to Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026.* You are 6'1 which is the perfect height for a man. Studies show, most women like men who are that height. My advice to you is to work on your diet and a year from now, you'll feel like a healthy 62 year-old.
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Posted by Mitch45* on Thu Jul 2 14:41:13 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jul 2 14:32:51 2026.* I am already on Wegovy and have lost 30 pounds thus far. As for the rest of your comment, why did you bother making it?
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Posted by LuchAAA* on Thu Jul 2 14:43:11 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:41:13 2026.* I will google Wegovy. I have no issues with you.
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Posted by Spider-Pig* on Thu Jul 2 15:32:02 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jul 2 14:43:11 2026.* Wegovy is the same drug as Ozempic, but it is marketed as "Wegovy" when for weight loss and "Ozempic" when for diabeetus.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Thu Jul 2 16:53:12 2026, in response to Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026.* IOW, you're a liberal.
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Posted by Mitch45* on Thu Jul 2 18:14:00 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jul 2 16:53:12 2026.* Dumbass
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Posted by Mitch45* on Thu Jul 2 18:28:48 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Olog-hai on Thu Jul 2 16:53:12 2026.* Dumbass
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Posted by rkba* on Thu Jul 2 21:48:01 2026, in response to Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026.* what a fuckin' crybaby.
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special* on Thu Jul 2 22:21:04 2026, in response to Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026.* Just be thankful you're not in Canada. I personally think nazi's are a minority. The problem really stems from open borders. And unattractive people. So while I say II think they are a minority, I do expect the US to become more European someday. The obviously deformed inbreeds and other newcomers are openly violent. That's the problem. It used to be random fat guys making tasteless jokes in public not thinking there are Jews around for popularity. They're suffering the great replacement too.
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Posted by Peter Rosa* on Fri Jul 3 00:18:38 2026, in response to Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026.* Leave aside the fact I’ll be working 11am to 8pm on the 4th, or that I am not particularly patriotic, there’s another reason: the government just announced that the prime age labor force participation rate is the lowest it’s been in 50 years outside of Covid. This is exceedingly disturbing. A person participates in the labor force if they’re working any kind of job at all or make even the most desultory attempts to find a job. Do nothing except Doordashing a couple times a week? You participate in the labor force. Stop by your local Walmart on occasion and ask if they’re hiring? You participate in the labor force. The people who don’t participate in the labor force aren’t even doing these minimal things. In most cases, they’re out of work and decide it’s so hopeless that they don’t even bother trying to find a job. Note: prime age means ages 25 to 54, so almost all students and retirees are excluded.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Fri Jul 3 01:43:58 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Jul 3 00:18:38 2026.* or that I am not particularly patriotic You should emigrate, then.
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Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw
Posted by Mitch45* on Fri Jul 3 03:36:00 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Jul 3 01:43:58 2026.* I didn’t ask for your advice, did I? Fuck off.
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Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw
Posted by rkba* on Fri Jul 3 09:00:34 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jul 3 03:36:00 2026.* don't post bullshit sob-stories to a public message board and then cry foul when others dare chime in. mitch da bitch, otchats' premier whiner.
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Posted by chicagoMotorman* on Fri Jul 3 09:01:19 2026, in response to Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026.*
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Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw
Posted by Mitch45* on Fri Jul 3 09:19:07 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by rkba on Fri Jul 3 09:00:34 2026.* Ah, go suck an egg.
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Posted by Catfish 44* on Fri Jul 3 09:35:48 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Jul 3 00:18:38 2026.* I thought you said there were no jobs and we need massive factories in and around nyc to give work to the masses.
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Posted by Catfish 44* on Fri Jul 3 09:36:28 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by Olog-hai on Fri Jul 3 01:43:58 2026.* 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Posted by Peter Rosa* on Fri Jul 3 09:49:49 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Jul 3 09:35:48 2026.* That’s my whole point! Build factories and create jobs.
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special* on Fri Jul 3 10:42:35 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Jul 3 09:49:49 2026.* They have robots for those jobs. Factories need to be where there is infrastructure and electricity. NYC doesn't have electricity or the mayor wouldn't be telling you to turn up your air conditioning. Notice I no longer talk about labor and jobs. Things have changed. And for the better. https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/chrysler-suspends-workers-who-were-caught-on-video/ AUBURN HILLS (WWJ) Chrysler is suspending nine workers who embarrassed the company on video, the second such incident in less than a year. Workers from the Trenton Engine Plant were captured on video, apparently drinking and smoking marijuana while on a break. The segment, airing on WJBK-TV, less than a year after a similar piece involving workers at the company's Jefferson North Plant.
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Posted by Catfish 44* on Fri Jul 3 10:47:29 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Jul 3 09:49:49 2026.* But they don’t want to work?
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Jul 3 10:56:42 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Orange Blossom Special on Fri Jul 3 10:42:35 2026. NYC is by all objective standards a terrible choice for factories, except maybe small artisanal workshops. That’s why the city will have to give huge incentives to attract industry. Expensive now, but worth it in the long run.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Fri Jul 3 13:08:54 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jul 3 03:36:00 2026.* By posting on this board, you did. So grow a thicker skin when you get opinions that do not agree with your Marxist indoctrination.
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Fri Jul 3 13:09:42 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by chicagoMotorman on Fri Jul 3 09:01:19 2026.* pwn3d
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Posted by Olog-hai* on Fri Jul 3 13:58:35 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Jul 3 09:35:48 2026.* pwnt. He decries the de-industrialization that the pols he supports have fomented, yet continues to support concentrating more and more power in their hands.
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special* on Fri Jul 3 15:22:21 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Peter Rosa on Fri Jul 3 10:56:42 2026.* "artisanal workshops" You bring up a great point. Often I see products that say on the label "Designed in NYC" or something similar. But directly under it, "Made in China". I imagine a small team raking in the dough, while they labor over the product half a world away. Seems unbalanced.
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Posted by https://salaamallah.com/* on Fri Jul 3 17:47:41 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jul 3 09:19:07 2026.* LOL
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Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw
Posted by rkba* on Fri Jul 3 18:01:26 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jul 3 09:19:07 2026.* i'd much rather watch your meltdown.
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Posted by Jeff Rosen* on Sat Jul 4 21:03:58 2026, in response to Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Thu Jul 2 14:25:02 2026.* Get a gun.
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Posted by jimmymc25* on Sun Jul 5 01:23:37 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Jeff Rosen on Sat Jul 4 21:03:58 2026.* Oh my God.....Mitch with a gun?
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Posted by AlM* on Sun Jul 5 20:00:42 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by jimmymc25 on Sun Jul 5 01:23:37 2026.* One would hope he would get better gun training than the training he has gotten on avoiding double posts. :)
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Posted by AlM* on Sun Jul 5 20:41:49 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by jimmymc25 on Sun Jul 5 01:23:37 2026.* One would hope he would get better gun training than the training he has gotten on avoiding double posts. :)
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Posted by Mitch45* on Tue Jul 7 10:51:28 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by AlM on Sun Jul 5 20:41:49 2026.* You asshole. You just double-posted yourself.
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Posted by AlM* on Tue Jul 7 11:16:00 2026, in response to Re: Why I Don't Feel Much Like Celebrating the 4th This Year..., posted by Mitch45 on Tue Jul 7 10:51:28 2026.* I know. :) I didn't pay close enough attention. But I know what I did wrong and will try to avoid doing it in the future.
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Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw
Posted by terRAPIN station* on Thu Jul 9 01:01:05 2026, in response to Re: …reay siht th4 eht gnitarbelec ekil hcum leef t'nod i yhw, posted by Mitch45 on Fri Jul 3 03:36:00 2026.* Jesus H. Christ, he wasn’t even talking to you.
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