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Don't ask me how, but I just came across the most heartwarming string of tweets about Georgia turning blue.
It's all in some form of Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian?). I'll paraphrase the Google Translate results to fit the 280 character limit.
It's all in some form of Serbo-Croatian (Bosnian?). I'll paraphrase the Google Translate results to fit the 280 character limit.
https://twitter.com/LuiiiiLuiiii/status/1324651082103070721
"What I know about Georgia is that Fort Benning and the Atlanta Hawks are there, the Profiler store (?), Sanjin's aunt Lucy, whom I regularly curse (no clue...), and Martin Luther King Jr. are located there
"Ask me what I know about Turkmenistan"
"What I know about Georgia is that Fort Benning and the Atlanta Hawks are there, the Profiler store (?), Sanjin's aunt Lucy, whom I regularly curse (no clue...), and Martin Luther King Jr. are located there
"Ask me what I know about Turkmenistan"
(There're a number of replies to this tweet naming other things. CNN, the '96 Olympics, the airport, Coca Cola, Gone With the Wind, etc....
To the person that said "I didn't know about Coca Cola. Now I love them even more", you'd fit right in here!
Now, back to the good thread)
To the person that said "I didn't know about Coca Cola. Now I love them even more", you'd fit right in here!
Now, back to the good thread)
https://twitter.com/AdisKaradza/status/1324655261273960448?s=20
"My cousin, who fled with his family as an eight-year-old threatened by a Serbian militia, lives in GA. He survived Sarajevo and went to America in 2001 to look for a better life. Today he has two sons, a lovely wife, a big house, and works for the state."
"My cousin, who fled with his family as an eight-year-old threatened by a Serbian militia, lives in GA. He survived Sarajevo and went to America in 2001 to look for a better life. Today he has two sons, a lovely wife, a big house, and works for the state."
https://twitter.com/suljagicemir1/status/1324731893351329793?s=20
"History is not to be played with. When you uproot people, they settle in places like Georgia - including a significant community of Srebrenica - and elect Joe Biden as President of the United States"
"History is not to be played with. When you uproot people, they settle in places like Georgia - including a significant community of Srebrenica - and elect Joe Biden as President of the United States"
I'm proud as hell to be an American and proud as hell to be a Georgian. It's a blessing to live in a place that provided (and will soon provide again) refuge to people fleeing genocide.
While I hate that we found ourselves in a position where this needed to happen, it's a privilege to be able to witness victims of the atrocities in the Balkans help to vote out a leader actively working to cultivate new strongmen in the region.
It's even better to see them help to replace that leader with one of the voices to speak out strongly against that genocide and advocate for protecting human rights over advancing our national agenda. https://twitter.com/BosnianHistory/status/1324810366010929152?s=20
We all know that Joe Biden is far from perfect. He's screwed up in the past and he'll certainly screw up again in the years to come. I disagree with him on any number of policy specifics.
As corny and overplayed as it sounds, though, he does appear to be a genuinely good person.
As corny and overplayed as it sounds, though, he does appear to be a genuinely good person.
I don't have any doubts that his heart's in the right place. We share the same goals of wanting to see our families, our communities, America, and humanity as a whole thrive. When we miss that goal (and we will), it's simply because we missed, not because we were aiming elsewhere
There's a lot of work left to do. Our democracy is, and always has been, far from perfect. Far too many of our neighbors and countrymen voted for a candidate that is the antithesis of the values our country claims to promote. COVID is as bad as it's ever been and many don't care
Still, It's necessary to appreciate the good things when you see them. It's looking like victories will be difficult to come by after January. The system is broken and it becomes harder and harder to fix the more broken it becomes. It can be fixed, though. It just takes hard work
