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    My grandad was told he’d have to give back his electric wheelchair due to some change in insurance.

    He was like “let me know what day, so I can have the news here as your tip a 100 year old ww2 veteran out of his wheelchair”

    They let him keep the chair.

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          My grandfather taught me never to dehumanize people.

          Once you start seeing people as “less than people” things go bad quick. People are people. There’s good, bad, and ugly. But they are people.

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              Which is a very human thing to be. Animals don’t operate on hatred.

              We are both the best and the worst that this world has to offer.

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        They’re people with a job they need to feed their families. The person who made the call wasn’t the one who made the decision.

        I was a GM for a few dollar trees and had to have people kicked out for stealing toothache medicine. I know how bad toothaches can be, I understand they are homeless, but I had a job that needed to feed my family.

        The world sucks not the people in it. We are all just slaves to this system we’ve built.

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          You can make the same argument for ICE, so I won’t buy it but I understand the pressure

          I would just turn a blind eye if I saw someone stealing medicine

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            Well if it makes you feel any better I quit that job and got baker acted 4 times in a month for suicude attempts. So I guess we agree lol

            My elbow will never bend right again because of that fight with the cops.

            Before that I took in 6 homeless people to live with me while they got on their feet.

            Have you ever held a man who drank himself to death because he was dieing of aids ? I cried the whole time to the hospital with him.

            So… what exactly have you done to help the cause again? Aside from your chair sitting I mean?

            Because ive helped so many people the universe won’t allow me to die. And boy howdy have I tried lots of ways. Life clings to me like a parasite.

            You want to talk about ice? Have you ever sheltered an immigrant? I have.

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              I’m sorry for you but I don’t see how any of that has anything to do with turning a blind eye if I see someone stealing something from a dollar tree

              I won’t virtue signal here, I can barely wake up every day to work while masking, let alone taking care of homeless people. So kudos to you for actually trying something

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                I just got a lot going on dude. I’m know for you’re perspective I just went off on you randomly… it isn’t you.

                All I can say is “kudos to you” see how far that got me. I think I said before “how’d it work out for those saints in the Bible “

                I’ve done a lot and it cost me a lot. So the best you can without losing yourself.

                Sorry for my outburst. It really wasn’t personal at all. It was me.

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        He was a tough old man. He had all the patience in the world for us kids but none for adults who should know better.

        His mom died in the dust bowl… from dust inhalation. Then he went to Italy to fight facists. Then came home and joined the board of health and helped develop the rabbis vaccine they could put in meat and drop from planes. He’s the reason you never had to worry about getting rabbis in America.

        Try he think they’re going to take his wheelchair? Come and take it!

        Oh he also had his name legally changed so he wouldn’t be named after Robert E Lee anymore. He wasn’t a fan of slavery. He also wasn’t a fan of baby boomers. Called them “the me me me generation “

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          helped develop the rabbis vaccine they could put in meat and drop from planes. He’s the reason you never had to worry about getting rabbis in America.

          We have lots of rabbis in America, someone should warn the Jewish population that there’s a vaccine for them! /s

          (I’m pretty sure you mean “rabies” but yours is a hell of a lot funnier)

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            Oh shit… he had a hat that said Ww2 veteran we never asked “what side”!!! This changes everything!!! At least he was working on a cure tho… joke obviously.

            Spelling isn’t my strong point. I’m a salesman and a great “talker” but spelling escapes me

            Jokes aside rabies (that right) is a terrible way to go. It was a bigger deal back in the day. In some countries it’s still a big worry.

            (So many edits) I’m imagining now my friend Zack who was Jewish walking thru the woods “is this free meat? Well can’t let it go to waste… wait why do I feel like god has left me all the sudden”

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          He also wasn’t a fan of baby boomers. Called them “the me me me generation"

          Haha, I feel like basically every generation besides Gen X has been called this by this point, nice to know where it started though.

          Your granddad’s biography would be legendary!

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        Oh I forget the best story because I just told someone earlier today. He had to pull him out of the nursing home because he kept bullying the younger trump supporters with “ I killed the Nazis once. I can kill them again if I have to”

        My dad was a trump supporter up until he died but he voted democrat those years out of respect for my mom’s father.

        I swear my grandfather had the presence of dumbledore from harry potter. Like him or don’t but you can’t help but respect him.

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            DONT fuck trump supporters. It reminds me of the joke “if you go over to a persons house and don’t see any books… don’t fuck them”

            Same with trump stuff. I’m asexual myself but I hear sex is a strong motivator for most men.

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        Oh I forget the best story because I just told someone earlier today. We had to pull him out of the nursing home because he kept bullying the younger trump supporters with “ I killed the Nazis once. I can kill them again if I have to”

        My dad was a trump supporter up until he died but he voted democrat those years out of respect for my mom’s father.

        I swear my grandfather had the presence of dumbledore from harry potter. Like him or don’t but you can’t help but respect him.