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My favorite part was the leaf blower BRRRRRRing in the back for half an hour

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Yeah WTH 😆

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Beyond charming. I could listen to you recite anything all day!

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I liked the video, but overall prefer reading. Have you tried drafting writing using dictation?

For some reason I never thought that they would have gas leaf blowers in the UK, so I was amused by that. I don’t know why, maybe I assumed that everyone in the UK has tiny yards so that they would use rakes.

One thing that you mentioned was that you view yourself as being communitarian. One of the things that has always seemed weird to me is people on the right (in the US at least) talking about freedom and yet when you look at their actual lives, they are a lot more communitarian/collectivist/group minded then liberals. And then liberals will call themselves communitarian, but live and support a very individualistic culture. Does the same phenomena happen in the UK? How about Thessaloniki, which sounds like it’s way more communitarian/collectivist/conformist than southeast England?

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I don't think it's it a matter of "Muslims = Terrorists". I think it's about culture, really.

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I think if I was one of your male friends, I would probably find it quite difficult to not fall in love with you 🫢🫣🤫 though I might pretend not to be, to avoid any awkwardness 😊🥰

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Talk to us about the Leeds uproar. Watching from the USA and I... don't get it.

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I almost didn't watch it. I'm 80, an indulging in impossible sexual fantasy no longer has the pull (ahem) it might've had once, but by the end of it, havinglost track of time, I was listening carefully to what you say finding significant appeal in much of it, especially what I can see that must attract young persons to politics, and to each other, and diversity and most of all, optimism about the future. You are not as frivolous as you almost seem to wish, as you get your message across. It's a good message, and I wish you would get your organization to second you to return to the US, and to Bernie Sanders, whose support for Kamala Harris over the next three months has the potential to transform the world in the same way as does the recent outcomes of UK Labour, and the French resistance to LePen et al. Whatever, good luck. I'd like to subscribe, but my income is $800/mo Social Security. When my year with Leah McLaren, who introduced you to me, runs out, or maybe Michael Moore (but I think probably not)...we'll see. Again, Good Luck with all of it~

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// I am still getting used to the humiliation of speaking to myself in front of a camera and then posting it online. This is not the legacy my refugee grandparents risked their lives for. //

Yep. Sympathies. I, too, find it absurd and degrading, and I don't watch these things. Write and read is fine. Make videos? Nah.

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I think you are wonderful please continue in the same way . Kudos to you . You inspire me . You vocalise my thoughts and emotions so well . I am grateful x

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