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Jacob Drafts
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Carolinian. Former combat engineer. Current before cure tire repairman.

I’m also the only employee in my work area on my shift so meetings are rarely geared towards my work area.

I fix my coworkers mistakes for a living so the workload varies. They make the products on the line and when a mistake is made in a unit they send it to me and I fix it by hand. My belt holds 11 units before it’s backing up the main line and I don’t like to have downtime. I routinely skip meetings as a waste of my time. No one’s said anything to me yet so I guess I’ll keep skipping them.

Being a good governor when you can’t start bombing foreigners is easy. Foreign policy is a a deal breaker for me. However good the person might be domestically.

I work two weeks on days and then two weeks on nights. I’ve noticed I get hungry at certain times of the day when I would be eating if I was on the opposite schedule. If I don’t eat anything I go back to not being hungry in half an hour. I usually only eat once or maybe twice a day.

Lady at the Museum of Cherokee History in South Carolina: do you have any Cherokee ancestry?

Me:

First time they had anyone tell them they had an ancestor killed by the Cherokee. They had a copy of the peace treaty that ended that particular war between the Cherokee and the colony of South Carolina on exhibit.

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I don’t think violence solves this issue. Well short of a genocide one way or the other though I fervently hope no one involved is so inclined. I’m going to weigh in as someone who is watching the small town my family has been living in and around for almost 300 years turn into urban sprawl for a large metropolitan area 15 miles away. For the most part it’s internal migration within the US. We won’t be rude to newcomers. Mostly. If you complain about the weather, the bugs or the way we do things then we’ll ask if you need help moving back up north. None of us like the extra infrastructure that has to be built, a dozen schools in my lifetime. The extra traffic. All the forest being clear cut for housing developments. The fact that now maybe we can’t just go shoot a .22 at cans in the back yard without some Karen calling the cops. Maybe it’s wrong to tar everyone moving here with that brush. It’s easy to do though and really we don’t know any of the newcomers from Adam. They are easy to spot though. Well. Easy to hear anyway.

Like I say I won’t be rude to you unless you start complaining about the place when ain’t nobody from here asked you to move here. That’s most of us but, and I’ll project here with conversations I’ve had with other people whose families have been here for generations. None of us particularly care for it if the people I know are any indication. That’s likely a function of numbers. Hundreds and sometimes thousands a year every year? Why would anyone expect us to like that?

Now that I think about it these parts were still part of the British Empire back in those days.

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I was born in the UK - in London, in Guys Hospital in 1995 - which is weird cos I’m closer to St.Thomas’ 🤔

This is my home. If you send me away on a boat, I’d end up back here… or not, cos I don’t know how to sail 😭

I am not of Anglo Saxon decent - that I know of (Sri Lanka was colonised by the Portuguese, Dutch and British at various points in history).

Some might not consider me English, which is totally cool, I don’t think I’m English either cos my ethnicity is Sinhalese with a little kiwi (curtesy of mystery grandad/mum).

I am, however, British. That is my nationality.

Right now, this is my home, and has been my whole life. I love it. It will always be a part of me.

I especially love that I grew up in London, cos this stuff doesn’t matter unless you’re filling in a form. It’s not something I sit around and think about, I just know it in my heart. I love that my mum isn’t English cos I get to hear about how different her childhood was. If it wasn’t for that, I probably wouldn’t know how amazing outdoor showers are. I was so stubborn to try it when I visited Sri Lanka last. Now, I crave it. I love having had friends from England, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Jamaica, Nigeria, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Trinidad and Tobago, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia, China, Italy, Switzerland, America, France, turkey, Germany, Sri Lanka, India, South Korea, Japan, Dominican Republic etc.

I wouldn’t be who I am today if I didn’t grow up with so much love and culture around me. Granted I might be a little ridiculous sometimes, but I like who I am cos I know I have pure intentions and I try my best to understand people. I don’t always understand people - like right now with the rioters - but I am trying. I don’t care where you’re from, if I love you, you’re my family. Which means I have sisters of Afghan, Eritrean, Spanish and Portuguese ethnicity - and brothers who are of Indian, Italian, Nigerian, English and Sinhalese ethnicity. And we’re all British. I have always believed that family is where you find it. Same with home.

I can’t ignore that we do have our problems as a country, as a kingdom. Even so, how does responding in violence solve anything? I grew up around violence, and I never saw any good come of it. Just more violence. I take it as a life lesson - though I don’t know that I needed that much of a lesson 😅. I made a deal with the universe though - I’ll get my ass organised and in return I would like a mostly peaceful life with quite a bit of adventure and lots of love - that is actually a lot to ask I realise but I’m still hopeful. I just think there are no real winners in war. I understand self defence, but if you’re angry and looking for a fight cos nobody is listening, I’d recommend you buy a punching bag (pillows work for me), meditate, find your zen and work smarter to use your words with the people who deserve it. The world now thinks that we’re animals - no, not animals. Animals behave better than us. That we’re angry idiots. I’m sad, cos I know that that’s not who we are.

Im okay if people are protesting peacefully that they are unhappy with immigration. That they don’t think people like my mum should be here or that the children of immigrants should be here (🙋🏽‍♀️). It’s hurtful. I cried when I saw some of the things being said, and I don’t agree at all with what they’re saying about any immigrant, but I do think they have a right to say it if that’s what they believe. I agree with them that Police shouldn’t be arresting people just for that. I also understand and agree that the government aren’t doing their jobs properly. This is where my agreement ends. People will think I’m mad, but I’d rather have freedom of speech and disagree with people (peacefully) than not be allowed to voice an opinion and be arrested for comments online - which is what’s happening, and will likely be happening more, thanks to the rioters who have given government and the police an excuse to come down harder…

The media tell half truths (of course), people aren’t acting rational, the police aren’t letting people speak their truth and the people are responding with violence - though I don’t think that’s any excuse. I still don’t know what’s real. Are rioters really on their way to London to smash cars and burn stuff? Or is the media talking about a peaceful protest with a few dangerous racist plonkers? I don’t know. I know the media can lie and twist things, but there wouldn’t be anything to twist if the people weren’t committing violent acts. I do know that.

I really want to give the protesters the benefit of the doubt, even if I disagree with them. Freedom of speech is important, always. But I just see non-stop rioting/looting and burning now, and I will never agree with that. It’s inhumane.

Anyway, this was my rant. Hope I didn’t bum anyone out. Just needed to vent.

I don’t think violence solves this issue. Well short of a genocide one way or the other though I fervently hope no one involved is so inclined. I’m going to weigh in as someone who is watching the small town my family has been living in and around for almost 300 years turn into urban sprawl for a large metropolitan area 15 miles away. For the most part it’s internal migration within the US. We won’t be rude to newcomers. Mostly. If you complain about the weather, the bugs or the way we do things then we’ll ask if you need help moving back up north. None of us like the extra infrastructure that has to be built, a dozen schools in my lifetime. The extra traffic. All the forest being clear cut for housing developments. The fact that now maybe we can’t just go shoot a .22 at cans in the back yard without some Karen calling the cops. Maybe it’s wrong to tar everyone moving here with that brush. It’s easy to do though and really we don’t know any of the newcomers from Adam. They are easy to spot though. Well. Easy to hear anyway.

Like I say I won’t be rude to you unless you start complaining about the place when ain’t nobody from here asked you to move here. That’s most of us but, and I’ll project here with conversations I’ve had with other people whose families have been here for generations. None of us particularly care for it if the people I know are any indication. That’s likely a function of numbers. Hundreds and sometimes thousands a year every year? Why would anyone expect us to like that?

I’m just hoping for a nice quiet week camping in South Carolina the week the tropical storm made landfall. It’s dry here so far but the part of South Carolina I live in, is under a flood warning.

Yep. I buy 10 a week. With occasional one time purchases. I suppose I could eat Ramen noodles and Vienna sausages every day to up that but between taxes, food, rent and utilities that 30 an hour I make goes pretty quick. Plus the big hitter of paying off the debt I ran up in my 20s of course. Haven’t added anything new to the debt in years. How many people just getting into bitcoin are also paying off at least 10-20,000 in debt? Whether it’s credit cards, student loans, a car. Whatever it might be.

Hopefully it stops soon. We had some 20 miles from me a couple years ago. None closer. I hope it doesn’t come back but I was just reading an article about the sheriff’s department for that county training up for anti riot stuff.

I used to have hair that long. It tangled pretty good on windy days and not in a good way.