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https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-not-soviet-union-27041
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-not-soviet-union-27041?page=0,1
Russia Is Not the Soviet Union
Today's Russia is weak and not an existential threat. The messianic, superpower of the USSR was.
The American public and U.S. policymakers both have an unfortunate tendency to conflate Russia with the Soviet Union. That habit emerged again with the media and political reaction to the Helsinki summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump’s critics accused him of appeasing Putin and even of committing treason for not doing enough to defend American interests and for being far too solicitous to the Russian leader. They regarded that as an unforgivable offense because Russia supposedly poses a dire threat to the United States. Hostile pundits and politicians charged that Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. elections constituted an attack on America akin to Pearl Harbor and 9-11 .
Trump’s supplicant behavior, opponents contended, stood in shameful contrast to the behavior of previous presidents toward tyrants, especially toward the Kremlin’s threats to America and the West. They trotted out Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” speech and his later demand that Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall as examples of how Trump should have acted.
The problem with citing such examples is that they applied to a different country: the Soviet Union. Too many Americans act as though there is no meaningful difference between that entity and Russia. Worse still, U.S. leaders have embraced the same kind of uncompromising, hostile policies that Washington pursued to contain Soviet power. It is a major blunder that has increasingly poisoned relations with Moscow since the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) at the end of 1991.
One obvious difference between the Soviet Union and Russia is that the Soviet governing elite embraced Marxism-Leninism and its objective of world revolution. Today’s Russia is not a messianic power. Its economic system is a rather mundane variety of corrupt crony capitalism, not rigid state socialism. The political system is a conservative autocracy with aspects of a rigged democracy, not a one-party dictatorship that brooks no dissent whatsoever.
Russia is hardly a Western-style democracy, but neither is it a continuation of the Soviet Union’s horrifically brutal totalitarianism. Indeed, the country’s political and social philosophy is quite different from that of its predecessor. For example, the Orthodox Church had no meaningful influence during the Soviet era—something that was unsurprising, given communism’s official policy of atheism. But today, the Orthodox Church has a considerable influence in Putin’s Russia, especially on social issues.
The bottom line is that Russia is a conventional, somewhat conservative, power, whereas the Soviet Union was a messianic, totalitarian power. That’s a rather large and significant difference, and U.S. policy needs to reflect that realization.
An equally crucial difference is that the Soviet Union was a global power (and, for a time, arguably a superpower) with global ambitions and capabilities to match. It controlled an empire in Eastern Europe and cultivated allies and clients around the world, including in such far-flung places as Cuba, Vietnam, and Angola. The USSR also intensely contested the United States for influence in all of those areas. Conversely, Russia is merely a regional power with very limited extra-regional reach. The Kremlin’s ambitions are focused heavily on the near abroad, aimed at trying to block the eastward creep of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the U.S.-led intrusion into Russia’s core security zone. The orientation seems far more defensive than offensive.
It would be difficult for Russia to execute anything more than a very geographically limited expansionist agenda, even if it has one. The Soviet Union was the world’s number two economic power, second only to the United States. Russia has an economy roughly the size of Canada’s and is no longer ranked even in the global top ten . It also has only three-quarters of the Soviet Union’s territory (much of which is nearly-empty Siberia) and barely half the population of the old USSR. If that were not enough, that population is shrinking and is afflicted with an assortment of public health problems (especially rampant alcoholism).
All of these factors should make it evident that Russia is not a credible rival, much less an existential threat, to the United States and its democratic system . Russia's power is a pale shadow of the Soviet Union's. The only undiminished source of clout is the country's sizeable nuclear arsenal. But while nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent, they are not very useful for power projection or warfighting, unless the political leadership wants to risk national suicide. And there is no evidence whatsoever that Putin and his oligarch backers are suicidal. Quite the contrary, they seem wedded to accumulating ever greater wealth and perks.
Finally, Russia’s security interests actually overlap substantially with America’s—most notably regarding the desire to combat radical Islamic terrorism. If U.S. leaders did not insist on pursuing provocative policies , such as expanding NATO to Russia’s border, undermining longtime Russian clients in the Balkans (Serbia) and the Middle East (Syria), and excluding Russia from key international economic institutions such as the G-7, there would be relatively few occasions when vital American and Russian interests collide.
A fundamental shift in U.S. policy is needed, but that requires a major change in America's national psychology. For more than four decades, Americans saw (and were told to regard) the Soviet Union as a mortal threat to the nation's security and its most cherished values of freedom and democracy. Unfortunately, a mental reset did not take place when the USSR dissolved, and a quasi-democratic Russia emerged as one of the successor states. Too many Americans (including political leaders and policymakers) act as though they are still confronting the Soviet Union. It will be the ultimate tragic irony if, having avoided war with a totalitarian global adversary, America now stumbles into war because of an out-of-date image of, and policy toward, a conventional, declining regional power. Yet unless U.S. leaders change both their mindsets and their policies toward Russia, that outcome is a very real possibility.
Ted Galen Carpenter , a senior fellow in defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest, is the author of 10 books, the contributing editor of 10 books, and the author of more than 700 articles on international affairs.
Image: A participant wears a sticker with the word "Obey!" during an opposition protest on Revolution square in central Moscow February 26, 2012. Thousands of Russians joined hands to form a ring around Moscow city centre on Sunday in protest against Vladimir Putin's likely return as president in an election next week. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ELECTIONS POLITICS)
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-not-soviet-union-27041?page=0,1
Russia Is Not the Soviet Union
Today's Russia is weak and not an existential threat. The messianic, superpower of the USSR was.
The American public and U.S. policymakers both have an unfortunate tendency to conflate Russia with the Soviet Union. That habit emerged again with the media and political reaction to the Helsinki summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump’s critics accused him of appeasing Putin and even of committing treason for not doing enough to defend American interests and for being far too solicitous to the Russian leader. They regarded that as an unforgivable offense because Russia supposedly poses a dire threat to the United States. Hostile pundits and politicians charged that Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. elections constituted an attack on America akin to Pearl Harbor and 9-11 .
Trump’s supplicant behavior, opponents contended, stood in shameful contrast to the behavior of previous presidents toward tyrants, especially toward the Kremlin’s threats to America and the West. They trotted out Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” speech and his later demand that Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall as examples of how Trump should have acted.
The problem with citing such examples is that they applied to a different country: the Soviet Union. Too many Americans act as though there is no meaningful difference between that entity and Russia. Worse still, U.S. leaders have embraced the same kind of uncompromising, hostile policies that Washington pursued to contain Soviet power. It is a major blunder that has increasingly poisoned relations with Moscow since the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) at the end of 1991.
One obvious difference between the Soviet Union and Russia is that the Soviet governing elite embraced Marxism-Leninism and its objective of world revolution. Today’s Russia is not a messianic power. Its economic system is a rather mundane variety of corrupt crony capitalism, not rigid state socialism. The political system is a conservative autocracy with aspects of a rigged democracy, not a one-party dictatorship that brooks no dissent whatsoever.
Russia is hardly a Western-style democracy, but neither is it a continuation of the Soviet Union’s horrifically brutal totalitarianism. Indeed, the country’s political and social philosophy is quite different from that of its predecessor. For example, the Orthodox Church had no meaningful influence during the Soviet era—something that was unsurprising, given communism’s official policy of atheism. But today, the Orthodox Church has a considerable influence in Putin’s Russia, especially on social issues.
The bottom line is that Russia is a conventional, somewhat conservative, power, whereas the Soviet Union was a messianic, totalitarian power. That’s a rather large and significant difference, and U.S. policy needs to reflect that realization.
An equally crucial difference is that the Soviet Union was a global power (and, for a time, arguably a superpower) with global ambitions and capabilities to match. It controlled an empire in Eastern Europe and cultivated allies and clients around the world, including in such far-flung places as Cuba, Vietnam, and Angola. The USSR also intensely contested the United States for influence in all of those areas. Conversely, Russia is merely a regional power with very limited extra-regional reach. The Kremlin’s ambitions are focused heavily on the near abroad, aimed at trying to block the eastward creep of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the U.S.-led intrusion into Russia’s core security zone. The orientation seems far more defensive than offensive.
It would be difficult for Russia to execute anything more than a very geographically limited expansionist agenda, even if it has one. The Soviet Union was the world’s number two economic power, second only to the United States. Russia has an economy roughly the size of Canada’s and is no longer ranked even in the global top ten . It also has only three-quarters of the Soviet Union’s territory (much of which is nearly-empty Siberia) and barely half the population of the old USSR. If that were not enough, that population is shrinking and is afflicted with an assortment of public health problems (especially rampant alcoholism).
All of these factors should make it evident that Russia is not a credible rival, much less an existential threat, to the United States and its democratic system . Russia's power is a pale shadow of the Soviet Union's. The only undiminished source of clout is the country's sizeable nuclear arsenal. But while nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent, they are not very useful for power projection or warfighting, unless the political leadership wants to risk national suicide. And there is no evidence whatsoever that Putin and his oligarch backers are suicidal. Quite the contrary, they seem wedded to accumulating ever greater wealth and perks.
Finally, Russia’s security interests actually overlap substantially with America’s—most notably regarding the desire to combat radical Islamic terrorism. If U.S. leaders did not insist on pursuing provocative policies , such as expanding NATO to Russia’s border, undermining longtime Russian clients in the Balkans (Serbia) and the Middle East (Syria), and excluding Russia from key international economic institutions such as the G-7, there would be relatively few occasions when vital American and Russian interests collide.
A fundamental shift in U.S. policy is needed, but that requires a major change in America's national psychology. For more than four decades, Americans saw (and were told to regard) the Soviet Union as a mortal threat to the nation's security and its most cherished values of freedom and democracy. Unfortunately, a mental reset did not take place when the USSR dissolved, and a quasi-democratic Russia emerged as one of the successor states. Too many Americans (including political leaders and policymakers) act as though they are still confronting the Soviet Union. It will be the ultimate tragic irony if, having avoided war with a totalitarian global adversary, America now stumbles into war because of an out-of-date image of, and policy toward, a conventional, declining regional power. Yet unless U.S. leaders change both their mindsets and their policies toward Russia, that outcome is a very real possibility.
Ted Galen Carpenter , a senior fellow in defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest, is the author of 10 books, the contributing editor of 10 books, and the author of more than 700 articles on international affairs.
Image: A participant wears a sticker with the word "Obey!" during an opposition protest on Revolution square in central Moscow February 26, 2012. Thousands of Russians joined hands to form a ring around Moscow city centre on Sunday in protest against Vladimir Putin's likely return as president in an election next week. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov (RUSSIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST ELECTIONS POLITICS)
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In other news, Justin Trudeau has taken another personal day off as prime minister.
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He'd kill himself again if he saw the Paris of today.
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his favorite Parisian cafe is still located in a very nice area, and I think he easily spent 1/4 to 1/2 of his time in Paris in that cafe, so I think he would be able to endure it.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/400068-...ntally-sent-n-word-as-password-to-black-woman
A local utility company in Washington says that it accidentally sent an African-American customer a racial slur as the temporary password for her online account.
“I clicked 'forgot password' and got a temporary password from PSE and it was capital Nigga and I was quite shocked,” Erica Conway told KIRO 7 on Wednesday, referencing her reaction to an email from Puget Sound Energy (PSE) after she requested a new password for her account.
Conway, who is a longtime volunteer of the Seattle chapter of the NAACP, said that she believes the slur was intentional. She also says that she complained to a customer service agent named Lydia at PSE's Bothell call center, but that the representative did not take her seriously.
“I had said 'Do you guys screen out certain words?' and Lydia was, like, 'Yes, we do.' And I said, 'Well you guys didn't screen out this word' And she said, 'Why would we?' and I said, “What do you mean why would we? This is an offensive word.' And she stated to me, 'No one uses that word anymore.' And I was like, where are you living, what planet are you living on?"
PSE spokeswoman Janet Kim told KIRO 7 that the password was offensive and that it is sorry "to this customer" and "the community, for what has happened."
But PSE insisted that it was computer-generated mistake.
“These passwords are generated automatically so they go straight from the system straight to the customers," Kim said to KIRO 7. "So, it's not able to be accessed by an employee.”
Conway told KIRO 7 that she and Seattle's NAACP want to have a meeting with the company to discuss the incident.
PSE said that it has taken steps to ensure temporary passwords are a scrambled mix of letters and numbers. It also said it would get rid of temporary passwords all together by September.
A local utility company in Washington says that it accidentally sent an African-American customer a racial slur as the temporary password for her online account.
“I clicked 'forgot password' and got a temporary password from PSE and it was capital Nigga and I was quite shocked,” Erica Conway told KIRO 7 on Wednesday, referencing her reaction to an email from Puget Sound Energy (PSE) after she requested a new password for her account.
Conway, who is a longtime volunteer of the Seattle chapter of the NAACP, said that she believes the slur was intentional. She also says that she complained to a customer service agent named Lydia at PSE's Bothell call center, but that the representative did not take her seriously.
“I had said 'Do you guys screen out certain words?' and Lydia was, like, 'Yes, we do.' And I said, 'Well you guys didn't screen out this word' And she said, 'Why would we?' and I said, “What do you mean why would we? This is an offensive word.' And she stated to me, 'No one uses that word anymore.' And I was like, where are you living, what planet are you living on?"
PSE spokeswoman Janet Kim told KIRO 7 that the password was offensive and that it is sorry "to this customer" and "the community, for what has happened."
But PSE insisted that it was computer-generated mistake.
“These passwords are generated automatically so they go straight from the system straight to the customers," Kim said to KIRO 7. "So, it's not able to be accessed by an employee.”
Conway told KIRO 7 that she and Seattle's NAACP want to have a meeting with the company to discuss the incident.
PSE said that it has taken steps to ensure temporary passwords are a scrambled mix of letters and numbers. It also said it would get rid of temporary passwords all together by September.
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http://www.texarkanagazette.com/new.../police-man-tried-steal-plane-concert/736990/
Police: Man tried to steal plane for concert
Report: Suspect thought flying would be easy
August 1st, 2018by Lynn LaRowein Texarkana NewsRead Time: 1 min.
Zemarcuis Devon Scott
A man arrested at the Texarkana Regional Airport on July 4 allegedly told investigators he intended to fly a stolen plane to a rap music concert in another state.
Asked about his lack of training as a pilot, Zemarcuis Devon Scott, 18, allegedly told Texarkana, Ark., police that he didn't believe there was much more to the task than pushing buttons and pulling levers, according to a probable cause affidavit used to create the following account.
It was about 2:30 a.m. when airport security personnel contacted police about seeing a man jump a fence and attempt to enter an American Eagle twin-engine jet. By the time officers arrived, the suspect, later identified as Scott, had gotten onto the small commercial plane and closed the door behind him.
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When officers shined a flashlight into the plane's cockpit from outside the jet, they could see a man sitting in the pilot's seat with his hands below the window and out of direct view. Fearing for their safety, an officer drew his weapon and ordered the man to keep his hands up where they could be seen.
When the suspect turned his gaze toward the officers, two of them allegedly recognized Scott from past encounters. Two of the three responding officers got the plane's door open while the third continued to monitor Scott until he could be taken into custody.
On Monday, Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chuck Black formally charged Scott with commercial burglary and attempted theft of property with a value greater than $25,000. Both offenses are felonies punishable by three to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Scott is being held in the Miller County jail with bail set at $25,000. The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Carlton Jones. A date for Scott's arraignment on the charges hasn't been scheduled but he is expected to appear in court later this month.
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/new.../police-man-tried-steal-plane-concert/736990/
Police: Man tried to steal plane for concert
Report: Suspect thought flying would be easy
August 1st, 2018by Lynn LaRowein Texarkana NewsRead Time: 1 min.
Zemarcuis Devon Scott
A man arrested at the Texarkana Regional Airport on July 4 allegedly told investigators he intended to fly a stolen plane to a rap music concert in another state.
Asked about his lack of training as a pilot, Zemarcuis Devon Scott, 18, allegedly told Texarkana, Ark., police that he didn't believe there was much more to the task than pushing buttons and pulling levers, according to a probable cause affidavit used to create the following account.
It was about 2:30 a.m. when airport security personnel contacted police about seeing a man jump a fence and attempt to enter an American Eagle twin-engine jet. By the time officers arrived, the suspect, later identified as Scott, had gotten onto the small commercial plane and closed the door behind him.
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When officers shined a flashlight into the plane's cockpit from outside the jet, they could see a man sitting in the pilot's seat with his hands below the window and out of direct view. Fearing for their safety, an officer drew his weapon and ordered the man to keep his hands up where they could be seen.
When the suspect turned his gaze toward the officers, two of them allegedly recognized Scott from past encounters. Two of the three responding officers got the plane's door open while the third continued to monitor Scott until he could be taken into custody.
On Monday, Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chuck Black formally charged Scott with commercial burglary and attempted theft of property with a value greater than $25,000. Both offenses are felonies punishable by three to 10 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
Scott is being held in the Miller County jail with bail set at $25,000. The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Carlton Jones. A date for Scott's arraignment on the charges hasn't been scheduled but he is expected to appear in court later this month.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/...oed-model-known-as-zombie-boy-dies-at-32.html
Bonus cringy ted talk
Rick Genest, a model known for his head-to-toe tattoos who appeared in the music video for the 2011 Lady Gaga song “Born This Way,” has died. He was 32.
Dulcedo Management, his agency, confirmed his death on its Facebook page on Thursday but did not say where he died, although Mr. Genest lived in Montreal. On her Twitter account, Lady Gaga said the cause of death was suicide, and that it was “beyond devastating.”
“We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it,” she added.
The suicide of friend Rick Genest, Zombie Boy is beyond devastating. We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it. If you are suffering, call a friend or family today. We must save each other. pic.twitter.com/THz6x5JlpB
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) August 3, 2018
Mr. Genest, who was better known as Zombie Boy or Rico, was born on Aug. 7, 1985, in a small town in Quebec. He said that he grew up fascinated with freak shows and tattoos.
he wrote in the Irish Mirror in 2016. “I’ve always wanted to look different.”
In school, he said students found themselves neatly fitting into categories.
“Are you a jock, a nerd, a prep, a rapper, a metalhead?” he said in 2016 at a TEDx talk in Austria.
He said he became a goth, “the least favorite of the subcultures,” and that he was “bullied by most and befriended by few.”
When he was a teenager he was told he had a brain tumor and that he would need surgery that would leave him disfigured for life.
“I guess this spiralled me into becoming obsessed with the morbid and macabre,” he wrote in the Irish Mirror.
But after months of examinations and blood work, he was approached with another option that involved laser technology. He said that in 2000, he became the second person in North America to survive the procedure.
He then began getting tattoos; his first was of a skull and crossbones on his left shoulder. Then he had his face tattooed to resemble a skull. He decided to shave off his mohawk and had his head tattooed to resemble a brain. He later had a skeleton tattooed on his body.
“It was all coming together,” he said.
By this point he had run away from home after an argument with his mother. He cleaned windshields for money and squatted in buildings.
People began stopping him in the street to ask if he would pose for photos. In 2008, Bizarre magazine asked if he would do a photo shoot.
“When they printed the pictures, they used the name ‘Zombie Boy’ and that was that,” he said.
He then received requests to model in fashion shows, perform in freak shows and appear at tattoo conventions.
In 2011, the artist Lady Gaga approached him to participate in her music video for the song “Born This Way,” in which she wore makeup that resembled his tattoos.
That same year, he earned the Guinness World Record for “most insects tattooed on the body,” at 176. He has also worked as a representative for L’Oréal’s Dermablend, a concealer that covers tattoos. He appeared in several movies, including “47 Ronin” (2013) with Keanu Reeves and he played in a band with Rob Zombie guitarist Mike Riggs.
Reflecting on his career, Mr. Genest wrote in the Irish Mirror that he was proud of achieving his boyhood dream of becoming “a freak.”
“And yes,” he wrote, “Please do stare, I like it.”
Dulcedo Management, his agency, confirmed his death on its Facebook page on Thursday but did not say where he died, although Mr. Genest lived in Montreal. On her Twitter account, Lady Gaga said the cause of death was suicide, and that it was “beyond devastating.”
“We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it,” she added.
The suicide of friend Rick Genest, Zombie Boy is beyond devastating. We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it. If you are suffering, call a friend or family today. We must save each other. pic.twitter.com/THz6x5JlpB
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) August 3, 2018
Mr. Genest, who was better known as Zombie Boy or Rico, was born on Aug. 7, 1985, in a small town in Quebec. He said that he grew up fascinated with freak shows and tattoos.
he wrote in the Irish Mirror in 2016. “I’ve always wanted to look different.”
In school, he said students found themselves neatly fitting into categories.
“Are you a jock, a nerd, a prep, a rapper, a metalhead?” he said in 2016 at a TEDx talk in Austria.
He said he became a goth, “the least favorite of the subcultures,” and that he was “bullied by most and befriended by few.”
When he was a teenager he was told he had a brain tumor and that he would need surgery that would leave him disfigured for life.
“I guess this spiralled me into becoming obsessed with the morbid and macabre,” he wrote in the Irish Mirror.
But after months of examinations and blood work, he was approached with another option that involved laser technology. He said that in 2000, he became the second person in North America to survive the procedure.
He then began getting tattoos; his first was of a skull and crossbones on his left shoulder. Then he had his face tattooed to resemble a skull. He decided to shave off his mohawk and had his head tattooed to resemble a brain. He later had a skeleton tattooed on his body.
“It was all coming together,” he said.
By this point he had run away from home after an argument with his mother. He cleaned windshields for money and squatted in buildings.
People began stopping him in the street to ask if he would pose for photos. In 2008, Bizarre magazine asked if he would do a photo shoot.
“When they printed the pictures, they used the name ‘Zombie Boy’ and that was that,” he said.
He then received requests to model in fashion shows, perform in freak shows and appear at tattoo conventions.
In 2011, the artist Lady Gaga approached him to participate in her music video for the song “Born This Way,” in which she wore makeup that resembled his tattoos.
That same year, he earned the Guinness World Record for “most insects tattooed on the body,” at 176. He has also worked as a representative for L’Oréal’s Dermablend, a concealer that covers tattoos. He appeared in several movies, including “47 Ronin” (2013) with Keanu Reeves and he played in a band with Rob Zombie guitarist Mike Riggs.
Reflecting on his career, Mr. Genest wrote in the Irish Mirror that he was proud of achieving his boyhood dream of becoming “a freak.”
“And yes,” he wrote, “Please do stare, I like it.”
Bonus cringy ted talk
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Covered in tats? Loser? Suicide?
awww fuck the ADF forum is still up, got my hopes up for nothing.
When you run out of edgy for attention the last thing you can do is blast yourself to get attention you'll never see.
I plan to mock him in death as I did in life, by not caring or supporting his ass pat demand.
How bout them Yankees ?
awww fuck the ADF forum is still up, got my hopes up for nothing.
When you run out of edgy for attention the last thing you can do is blast yourself to get attention you'll never see.
I plan to mock him in death as I did in life, by not caring or supporting his ass pat demand.
How bout them Yankees ?
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God damn if this nerd really wanted change for mental health. Make money and open a charity to give people free help. Oh, wait that takes effort.
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A literal nobody killed himself.
I don't even feel bad when celebrities do it, sure won't because this guy did it.
I don't even feel bad when celebrities do it, sure won't because this guy did it.
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From the Ted Talk, he stated he had a brain tumor at a young age but it was removed. I guess it left permanent damage i.e. :autism:
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"Who here thinks I'm not normal?"
"Who here thinks I am normal?"
"Who here feels like they need 3 showers after watching this video clip?"
"Who here thinks I am normal?"
"Who here feels like they need 3 showers after watching this video clip?"
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I got really disappointment when I opened the thread thinking ADF had finally died of vaginal sepsis and found out it wasn't him. =(
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I saw this guy at a restaurant ten years ago without knowing anything about him. It was a diner, he was at a table with like ten other people. I didn't stare but got a good look at him. Unless there's more than one guy with these tats...