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The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin

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The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin

The Unstoppable Freight Train of Sin

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s always BNSF.

Antifa Member Standing on Far Right in Group Photo Immediately Attacked

Antifa Member Standing on Far Right in Group Photo Immediately Attacked

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“It was over in a flash,” Kingtaker tweeted. “We didn’t have time to think. From realizing he was on the far right, by my thumb, to beheaded, it couldn’t have been more than 9 hours. Adrenaline.”

Minneapolis Opens World’s Largest Outdoor Shooting Range

Minneapolis Opens World’s Largest Outdoor Shooting Range

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUnrelated to the unveiling, the city has also decided to abolish the entire police force.

Protestors to Tear Down Alamo in Effort to Heal Nation

Protestors to Tear Down Alamo in Effort to Heal Nation

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesGeorge Soros has promised to have the building demolished if the protestors can’t manage it, though he says he’s been rethinking his tactic of leaving pallets of bricks everywhere, which “seem to just be making it bigger.”

Orwell’s 1984 Being Issued as a Guidebook to Effective Social Change

Orwell’s 1984 Being Issued as a Guidebook to Effective Social Change

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Reading Time: 2 minutesHistory classes are being scrapped! The book is being issued across all departments to teach people how to control the present to control the past, and how to control the past to control the future.

Libertarian Atheist Preparing Sovereign-Citizen Defense Just in Case

Libertarian Atheist Preparing Sovereign-Citizen Defense Just in Case

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMark Nelson knows that there’s no God, but he’s been feverishly rooting through his copy of Black’s Law Dictionary “just in case.”

Hot New Pickup Artist Book for All Ages, “Ridin’ with Biden”

Hot New Pickup Artist Book for All Ages, “Ridin’ with Biden”

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesSeeking to improve his credibility and rating with all age demographics, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is releasing a new book, “Ridin’ with Biden: Mastering the Art of “Unwanted” Seduction—A Guide for All Ages.”

Following Violence, Doctors Without Borders Deploying to CHAZ/CHOP

Following Violence, Doctors Without Borders Deploying to CHAZ/CHOP

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Reading Time: < 1 minute“Thankfully, MSNBC has told us that the only deadly violence in the CHAZ is very peaceful.”

Trump Caves, Will Give Antifa City-Size Autonomous Zone at 48.281932, -122.951484

Trump Caves, Will Give Antifa City-Size Autonomous Zone at 48.281932, -122.951484

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe President had no choice but to cede territory to the powerful Antifa organization.

Shock Research Finds Systemic Bias Against the Socially Awkward & Ugly

Shock Research Finds Systemic Bias Against the Socially Awkward & Ugly

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearch scientists have discovered problematic news: while we’ve always known that systemic racism has existed, a much uglier player is in this national game—namely, ugly people themselves.

COVID-19 to Disrupt Elections Due to Inexplicable Mass City Population Drop

COVID-19 to Disrupt Elections Due to Inexplicable Mass City Population Drop

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesNews from the Centers for Disease Control, plus a proposal for an awkward political alliance.

Goodyear Tires Under Pressure to Change Name in 2020

Goodyear Tires Under Pressure to Change Name in 2020

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpecial correspondent A. Jones contributed to this report.

Odd, Lost Bible Text Found: “No one knows the day or the hour in 2020.”

Odd, Lost Bible Text Found: “No one knows the day or the hour in 2020.”

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers in Israel have found missing Biblical texts in an ancient manuscript collection, as well as carved into walls. While working in old caves near Gallilee, archaeologists were shocked to discover key parts of passages that they’d not seen before

Obedience to Government

Obedience to Government

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesGrab your leash! We’ve some training to do.

The Blatant, White Supremacy of Joel Osteen’s Teeth

The Blatant, White Supremacy of Joel Osteen’s Teeth

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute“Whiter than forgiven sins, whiter than snow,” he told his congregation about his most recent cleaning. “I won’t leave the dentist’s office until the radiant power of my teeth can drop a protestor at 500 paces. Watch as I roll back my lips as a scroll.” The front row of congregants was permanently blinded by the event.

How to Choose Democrat or Republican: A Field Guide

How to Choose Democrat or Republican: A Field Guide

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere at Hiking in the Light, we believe that all choices are important, no matter how absolutely bleak they seem!

My Feelings on the Police, Race, and Killings

My Feelings on the Police, Race, and Killings

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesJust my two cents. God bless!

In Response to Defunding Movement, Trump Giving All Police Departments AT-ATs

In Response to Defunding Movement, Trump Giving All Police Departments AT-ATs

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“The call to remove our beautiful law enforcement agencies, which are the best in the world, and maybe the best that has been, even ever, is not just a tragedy, but an outrage. I have been telling local, state, and federal officials that they need to dominate the streets, and now they will. Starting now, AT-ATs will be supplied to all law enforcement agencies nationwide. That is all.”

Nancy Pelosi Vows to Fight for Wakanda

Nancy Pelosi Vows to Fight for Wakanda

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe latest news on Nancy Pelosi.

Suicide, Violence, and Wise Fathers (+Podcast)

Suicide, Violence, and Wise Fathers (+Podcast)

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Fatherlessness is the single best predictor of violence in young men. Masculinity can become “toxic” in the absence of the wise Patriarch—but it’s just an aggressive form of sin.

Transcript of Anti-Racist Educational Tenets: CRT Applied to Pedagogy

Transcript of Anti-Racist Educational Tenets: CRT Applied to Pedagogy

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesI made the following transcript of an anti-racist, critical race theory speech to help people understand the perceptual filters that critical social justice wishes to apply to the world.

People Not Sure Why We’re Not Using Dirty Bombs for Social Justice Yet

People Not Sure Why We’re Not Using Dirty Bombs for Social Justice Yet

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs long as it’s not my shop or my home being looted or burned, I’m all for it. And if a little violence is good, maybe nothing short of a dirty bomb is the real solution. Send me your address, and I’ll be there in solidarity with a little critical, social justice. I’m eager to help.

Critical Race Theory and Whiteness Over Time

Critical Race Theory and Whiteness Over Time

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutesA must-read. Dr. James Lindsay’s journey mirrors my own. I began studying Critical Race Theory in 2013, and it truly does “awaken” one to race in profound ways. The solutions and prescriptions it proffers, however, are destructive and divisive. Something to consider: In the 19th and early 20th century, the belief that there were different “races” of Europeans was popular. What if Critical Race Theory came into being in 1910? Would…

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CNN: Racism Has Killed Coronavirus

CNN: Racism Has Killed Coronavirus

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteRacism has killed coronavirus. Not content to target minorities struggling to make a go of things, it’s now targeted and in fact entirely killed off the novel coronavirus. “Never in our lifetimes have we witnessed a genocide due to racism,” remarked Anderson Cooper. “Well, until now. Yes, folks, racism has killed off the entirety of the novel coronavirus. It had just arrived in America, a poor immigrant struggling to get…

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America’s New Favorite Pastime: Social Justice LARPing

America’s New Favorite Pastime: Social Justice LARPing

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYes, citizens across the entire US are taking part. “Look, an evil dragon’s lair,” shouted one social justice LARPer. “He’s been oppressing minorities! Let’s teach him a lesson.” He and his merry band of masked men then smashed into the local Walmart and looted all of the TVs and laptops and cameras and cash from the evil dragon’s den.

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