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   Noah Sombrero to All   
   Re: The Three-Body Fortune:   
   15 Feb 26 13:37:05   
   
   From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:25:10 -0500, Wilson    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2/15/2026 1:18 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:44:05 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >>> On 2/15/2026 7:40 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:>>> You can't simply go around   
   announcing that libertarianism is a   
   >principle and therefore   
   >>>> true.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Who are these "libertarianism" of whom you speak? Apparently, you've   
   >>> never even seen a photo of The Statue of Liberty. Wait! What?   
   >>   
   >> The sol poem   
   >>   
   >> Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,   
   >> With conquering limbs astride from land to land;   
   >> Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand   
   >> A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame   
   >> Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name   
   >> Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand   
   >> Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command   
   >> The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.   
   >>   
   >> "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she   
   >> With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,   
   >> Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,   
   >> The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.   
   >> Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,   
   >> I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"   
   >That poem was added to the statue of liberty after it had been erected   
   >as part of a private fund-raising effort. It does not define the meaning   
   >of the statue, the creators intention for making it, or the reason the   
   >nation of France gave it to the US.   
      
   Or actually it does.   
      
   Let's hear it, why do you think france put that statue on a boat and   
   shipped it across the atlantic?   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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