From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:38:18 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/15/2026 11:19 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:37:05 -0500, Noah Sombrero    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Wiki says france's original intent was to honor the freeing of the   
   >> slaves and the us surviving the civil war as a nation.   
   >>   
   >> None of which takes meaning away from the poem that people saw fit to   
   >> attach a little later, which must be interpreted as the intent of the   
   >> people at the time.   
   >>   
   >> 'The "huddled masses" refers to the large numbers of immigrants   
   >> arriving in the United States in the 1880s, particularly through the   
   >> port of New York.[15] Lazarus was an activist and advocate for Jewish   
   >> refugees fleeing persecution in Imperial Russia.[16]   
   >>   
   >> Lazarus refers to the poet Emma Lazarus.   
   >.   
   >You are really losing most of these debates lately. I can't believe you   
   >are still arguing about liberty and human rights after all these years.   
   >   
   >Are you on something? It's just weird.   
   >   
   >Sombrero and Nick seem to be approaching Tang's crashed status. That   
   >leaves just three informants still posting cogent replies. What?   
      
   Sorry, wilson and I are both already on tang's list, including tang   
   himself.   
   --   
   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   
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