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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: hclasvegas   😊 😞
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Subject: Dear leaders of the free world,
Date: 09/17/24 5:51 AM
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Dear the leaders of the World,

In World War Two, six million Jews and many more other minorities were murdered in the most gruesome, sadistic and cold blooded way imaginable at the hand of the Nazis and their allies, which included Islamists. That was just 80 years ago, and you all stood together afterwards and promised “never again”.

Yet just 80 years later, and with all the evidence of those crimes at your fingertips, somehow you all just forgot.

When a group of Islamists hijacked planes and flew them into the tallest buildings in New York only 23 years ago, violently and brutally murdering 3000 people in cold blood, you all stood together afterwards and promised “never again”.

Yet just 23 short years later, and with all the evidence of those crimes at your fingertips, somehow you all just forgot.

When a group of the most savage and extreme Islamists broke through the border of southern Israel only 11 months ago… ELEVEN MONTHS… and in the most horrific and barbaric way they raped and tortured and burned and slaughtered 1200 innocent people while filming every single second of it and laughing joyously as they did it, you all stood together afterwards for a whopping two weeks… that’s right, two weeks… and you promised “never again”.

Yet just 11 months later, and with all the evidence of those crimes at your fingertips, somehow you all just forgot.
Except this time you didn’t just forget. You knowingly chose to spread the lies and misinformation and libels and hate, and you chose to stand with the very people who committed those atrocities.

But for us, we never forgot, and we will never forget. We were forced to gather together from across Europe and throughout the Middle East where we were forced from our homes and our lives with nothing but what little dignity and faith we could muster and we rebuilt. We took a land that was desolate and infested with malaria and that had no fresh water or trees or almost no life, and we created a blossoming and thriving sanctuary for our people and for nature itself. We did that. We stood together against every obstacle and every odd and WE did that. And instead of hating you, we chose to share it with you. We shared our knowledge and our science and our technology and our medicine and our values. When 9/11 happened, we mourned with you and we were the only nation in the world that built a monument in the memory of all those who tragically lost their lives.
We did that. We stood by you afterwards and we said “never again” and we continue to say it today. We never forgot.

But you did. Why did you forget? How could you even possibly forget? We ask ourselves these questions every single day. But you did that. You simply… forgot.
2:38 AM · Sep 17, 2024

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