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George Floyd and Dostoevsky

Just an afterthought: I can't help asking myself, why do people hate George Floyd so much that they get themselves blocked in order to besmirch his reputation ? Maybe the answer has been given by Dostoevsky in his The Brothers Karamazov, when he has the old Karamazov say: "I played such a foul trick on a certain man that I started to hate him." If the roots of old racism were economic interests, maybe today's racism is rooted in bad conscience. Rsk6400 (talk) 07:17, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Michele Clark

I learned about her when I was reading The Boys on the Bus, where the (iirc) one and only mention of her is the author introducing some random thing she said with "Michelle [sic] Clark, a young, extremely beautiful black reporter from CBS's Chicago Bureau had said [...]" and then in a footnote he says "On December 8, 1972, she was killed in a plane crash at Chicago's Midway Airport". I was like, dang, what a way to memorialize someone: I thought she was hot, then she died. Astrophobe (talk) 04:03, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Platner

if Senator Sheehy didn’t get an article till after he won Platner doesnt either Hthompson2000 (talk) 04:18, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You're entitled to that opinion, but AfD determined the article stays, at least for now. Generalrelative (talk) 05:58, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red | October 2025, Vol 11, Issue 10

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ANI

I mentioned your name at ANI - see WP:ANI#Complaint concerning GorillaWarfare, concerning Talk:Graham Platner Acroterion (talk) 00:22, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Glad to see the matter was quickly resolved. Generalrelative (talk) 16:18, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit conflict at Talk:Fascism

Awwwwwww, man... I was actually tickled pink by that double close. You closed the door, then Doug came and nailed it shut. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 13:12, 24 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, like a magic spell of binding. Glad to hear you got a good tickling out of it though. Generalrelative (talk) 17:04, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to work out how a magical binding would work once. I didn't just fail, I accidentally gave my ex girlfriend a tentacle kink. 0/10, would not mess with dark arts the knowledge of which was not meant for mortal man again. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 18:40, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I mean, when it comes to tickling, nothing beats a tentacle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Generalrelative (talk) 23:13, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red - November 2025

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