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Catholic β€’ Nature, wildlife, beach runs, books and the beauty of faith by the shores of Lake Michigan 🌊 πŸ€ ✝️ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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@michlakeshore
James of Michigan 🌲
24 days
Today I'm starting a 450+ mile walking journey along the western coast of Michigan It's a pilgrimage to become closer with my faith, and a version of the Camino de Santiago that's been walked for centuries across Spain. Please pray that God gives me the strength to finish! ✝️
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James of Michigan 🌲
24 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day One, made it to South Haven 15.6 miles, feet are destroyed
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James of Michigan 🌲
14 days
150 miles in, I’m starting to get up there
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James of Michigan 🌲
22 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 2 (yesterday), 11.5 miles Brutal walking, feet completely blistered on bottoms. Saw a groundhog climb up a tree. Camped on the beach in just a sleeping bag. Woke up cold, made a tiny fire with beach sticks. Left at 4am and kept walking.
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James of Michigan 🌲
17 days
First Mass after starting the Michigan Camino ✝️ β€œProclaim the gospel to every creature”
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James of Michigan 🌲
20 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update People walking past me along the way wanted to take a selfie 12.34 miles so far today and needing to continue in the dark for a few hours until the next town
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James of Michigan 🌲
22 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago Day 3 - 11.5 miles Started at 4:30am on a rocky, cold beach. Had to climb over boulders, shimmy along a narrow cement wall, dropped my phone into a crevice. Then, beautiful high-up scenes of the lake miles later, near Saugatuck. 🌧️ cut the day short
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James of Michigan 🌲
21 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update: Told myself this would be a rest day. The soles of my feet are bruised and throbbing, could hardly stand this morning. But I got some $5 shoes at the dollar store. I am back. We’re walking onward.
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James of Michigan 🌲
11 days
Sleeping in a bivouac tent after 21 beach miles mostly barefoot
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James of Michigan 🌲
20 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 5, the Way of St. James is laden with signs
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James of Michigan 🌲
22 days
The situation tonight is much better than a sleeping bag on a remote, freezing beach
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James of Michigan 🌲
16 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 9 - 22.4 miles, 106.5 total Made it to Whitehall. A solitary day along a long, paved path through lush woods w the smell of flower blossoms all around, after the city streets in Muskegon. And a roller coaster appeared out of the woods.
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James of Michigan 🌲
18 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 7 - Grand Haven and onward Surf’s up, brah πŸ„β€β™‚οΈ
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James of Michigan 🌲
22 days
Imagine sitting here for sunset every night Found this spot today in Macatawa
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James of Michigan 🌲
18 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago Day 7 - 18.5 miles Longest day so far. Lighthouse. Kite boarders. New friends for lunch. Dunes trails. A Long Beach walk on great sand. Saw some bald eagles. Made it to Muskegon.
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James of Michigan 🌲
21 days
Very very epic day on the Michigan Camino Will make a thread tomorrow Ended up in a cop car. Regaled a renowned multimillionaire guy with my police story, at a fancy yacht club bar. See you tomorrow.
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James of Michigan 🌲
19 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 5 - 15.5 miles, 65.5 total Made it to Grand Haven from Macatawa, via a long paved walk path along Lakeshore Drive. A mostly solitary day in rain and later dark. Haven means harbor and I’m glad shelter found me. ✝️
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James of Michigan 🌲
14 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 11 - 20.4 miles, 153.1 total Started in Silver Lake, walked west, saw Lake Michigan for the first time in days. Blue and beautiful. And then to the Little Sable Point Lighthouse, giant and brick, right on the beach. An amazing sight.
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James of Michigan 🌲
15 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 10 - 26.15 miles, 132.7 total Made it to Silver Lake from Montague. Saw the world’s largest weathervane. Got Mexican food in the middle of nowhere, Taco Tuesday. Walked along a paved, solitary path, then on dirt roads late into night.
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James of Michigan 🌲
20 days
Came across this late last night in Grand Haven with a mile to go, walking on a very painful ankle tendon God shines in the dark
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
Michigan Camino update Day 14 (yesterday) - 21 miles, 190.1 total Had a wonderful experience at the Big Sable Point Lighthouse, on a remote beach along the lake. Hard to explain in a tweet. Interacting with the lighthouse keepers brought tears to my eyes. God is good ✝️
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Day 15 - 20.5 miles, 211.7 total Seven miles into Manistee, then Manistee to Onekama. A priest gave me a tour of a beautiful church that’s no longer in use. Here he is showing how Mass used to be conducted, on the high altar.
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James of Michigan 🌲
3 months
We should be adorning the outside world with nice things
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James of Michigan 🌲
19 days
Lessons learned from this Camino walk: We can’t do things alone. We need other people (and God working through them), to get us where we need to be. That sounds obvious, but it’s easy to forget, if you’re driven to be self-reliant.
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James of Michigan 🌲
15 days
11:30pm and I’m still walking, beautiful night out 21 miles in
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James of Michigan 🌲
19 days
My rule of thumb is: If I can walk a mile, I can walk ten. Yesterday, even one mile was out of the question so I took a rest. But there’s a big decorative lighthouse outside my hotel so that’s an encouraging Godwink. So I’m back again today on the road.
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James of Michigan 🌲
12 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Days 12 & 13 - 17 miles, 170.1 total Stayed in Pentwater for a day to regroup. Great spring flowers everywhere. Had breakfast with a ship captain. Saw fisherman gutting fresh lake fish in a little gazebo along the Main Street.
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James of Michigan 🌲
24 days
Here's a little write-up that I sent to a priest who offered to help along the way. If anyone wants to join to walk a mile, they're more than welcome! πŸ™
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James of Michigan 🌲
16 days
Seen today while walking in Muskegon πŸ¦ƒ
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 months
Making the sign of the cross ✝️ Lake Michigan
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James of Michigan 🌲
15 days
Michigan Camino de Santiago update Found this old drive-thru along the way
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
Feet are demolished. Immense pain but made it to my destination. Contemplated the crucifixion for miles. Not that this compares to that but maybe that’s why it happened, to prompt that thinking. Can’t contemplate that level of suffering when I was comfy on the couch.
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James of Michigan 🌲
16 days
There’s a very funky Catholic Church building in Muskegon I saw the other day (St. Francis de Sales), designed with this contorted concrete like something out of sci-fi Here’s me hugging the corner, as I was instructed to do
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 days
Some of the essentials
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2 months
Just discovered a nice place to sit
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
Pentecost Sunday Mass in Manistee ✝️
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James of Michigan 🌲
22 days
Late at night, an old bearded man walks to my camp in the dark. I got my Smith & Wesson knife close enough to reach, and my phone ready for 911. He had a UV flashlight and said he was looking for β€œYooper rocks”. I’d never heard of them. He finds one, shows me, unreal orange glow!
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James of Michigan 🌲
12 days
Drinking beer and walking the beach in the hot sun
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James of Michigan 🌲
13 days
I think we need time to marvel at the asymmetrical + spontaneous beauty of God’s creation in nature. I’m experiencing that on this trip. Church pews are rectangular. So is a Bible. A lightning bolt or a forest, a coastline, encounters w wildlife, reminds us of God’s other way.
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James of Michigan 🌲
6 months
@cimmerian_v @JesseLucasSaga Trafficked* not adopted
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James of Michigan 🌲
16 days
Walked through rain, then the beautiful wet calm after it stopped, with frog noises coming from the ponds and marshes beside the path Got to Whitehall in the dark, a quaint town. This feels like a new section of the journey. The vibe is different here. I am now β€œup north”.
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 months
@RRR0BYN Well said!! β€œLoving one’s neighbor” has never meant β€œerase your ethnicity and hand over your country to foreigners”
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James of Michigan 🌲
2 months
Folded my palm into a cross and hung it with some fishing line ✝️
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James of Michigan 🌲
12 days
Got to Ludington. Saw the spot where Pere Marquette died in 1675 (French Catholic missionary). The big SS Badger had just arrived from Wisconsin, blowing its loud horn. And I called the fire chief in town and he agreed to give me a quick boat ride across the channel.
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James of Michigan 🌲
2 months
This is some of the coolest footage I've gotten The fox mother nursing all the pups!
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James of Michigan 🌲
3 months
Snapped these photos of a pileated woodpecker in flight last spring
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James of Michigan 🌲
2 months
@TheLastDon222 @eyeslasho Even in trivial professions it's still deeply evil. Qualified people are being kept from work/jobs, and others are being unfairly rewarded. It's bad morally and bad for society, whatever the job is.
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 month
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James of Michigan 🌲
12 days
Came up from the beach to walk the roads, found this great bench, then came across a little fish shop family-owned for generations. The father and son looked just like each other. Got smoked lake trout to go.
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James of Michigan 🌲
5 months
@eyebrid_3 @demarais7 @ramzpaul @elonmusk We’re not β€œscared”. We just don’t want this, it’s wrong and not good. People shouldn’t be forced to accept bad changes to their home, that they didn’t choose. That goes for everybody, but white people have that right too.
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James of Michigan 🌲
22 days
Earlier, my favorite lighthouse (South Haven) and my short-lived beach fire
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James of Michigan 🌲
6 months
You need to be tipping your cap and strutting around town and saying things like β€œharrumph” and β€œhuzzah!” and β€œegads!”
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James of Michigan 🌲
24 days
Everything is packed in here, including a little bivouac tent and sleeping bag
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James of Michigan 🌲
15 days
And saw several little waterfalls and creeks like this along the way
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
I took a long spiral staircase to the top. It was scary up there in the wind with a short railing. Had a great conversation with the lighthouse keeper up there. She said a really meaningful prayer for me. Amazing views of the lake.
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
Then a long, great beach walk on a remote stretch with no houses, very few people. And this sunset.
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 months
@FrankDeScushin @Correction2016 If the races were reversed, this incident would be added to high school history textbooks as a sad stain on our nation’s legacy of racism
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James of Michigan 🌲
20 days
And I got a very hard-to-get stamp for my lighthouse passport book (my equivalent of the β€œcredencial” book on the Spain Camino), after somehow meeting the one lady who is the lighthouse commissioner in Holland, and keeps the official stamper
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James of Michigan 🌲
22 days
Apparently it’s fluorescent sodalite, and they’re found around the Great Lakes. I was confused why the guy showed up right after sunset, and why he lingered so long, then approached me shuffling down the sand in the dark. Then I realized, he was on a mission for treasure.
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James of Michigan 🌲
19 days
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James of Michigan 🌲
3 months
@eyeslasho It’s like liberals know how bad Haiti is, but they know how non-white it is, so they (very patronizingly) insist that it’s great! It’s like they see them as children, where you have to tell little lies to make them feel better. It’s the most offensive/racist thing there is.
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 months
@Yearns4Heaven But I don’t think it’s sinful to support the preservation of racial/ethnic heritages worldwide and ethnic homelands and identity. Yet, that is called β€œracist!” and β€œNaziism!!” by the left, even though it isn’t. Preserving all peoplehoods is based on love, not hatred.
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 month
I met a snake while on a beach run
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
Started the day hanging with a Great Dane named Dior. Huge dog. Then a long walk through dunes to the lighthouse, which sits at a geographic transition point along the western coast of Michigan.
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 month
An eagle at the beach in Michigan
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 month
Saints and lighthouses are guides
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James of Michigan 🌲
12 days
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James of Michigan 🌲
19 days
Some more photos from Saugatuck the day before
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James of Michigan 🌲
11 days
Watching a massive thunderstorm come across the lake right now God gave me a picnic shelter roof to take cover under, and then He started the show Incredible, lightning flashing every second, hitting the water miles away and the whole sky lighting up
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James of Michigan 🌲
5 months
@elsantomatty β€œThe milkmaid” cleavage girl doesn’t seem like a conversion
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James of Michigan 🌲
15 days
β€œJust another moonlight mile” 🎢
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
Yesterday’s walking music: β€œSail on home to Jesus, won't you good girls and boys” 🎢 James Taylor, Country Road
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James of Michigan 🌲
29 days
Sunset at Lake Michigan tonight
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James of Michigan 🌲
12 days
Yesterday, I walked north to Ludington. Great, smooth beach walking, barefoot. Felt great.
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James of Michigan 🌲
2 months
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James of Michigan 🌲
5 months
@restoreorderusa Bringing everything down to shit-tier because seeing higher-up people fills them with envious rage and misery
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James of Michigan 🌲
2 months
In my yard just now
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James of Michigan 🌲
12 days
Met a middle-aged dad walking his neighborhood to look at the sunset down the street, got to talking, then he offered to drive me to get food, got drinks and a burger downtown. Heading to Manistee today.
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 month
Towns along the shores of Lake Michigan are beautiful
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 days
Hobbled into the dark until after midnight, cars zooming past at high speeds every so often. Started walking barefoot on the road because my shoes hurt. Didn’t know what to do. They I saw a bright shining cross miles ahead in the distance and shuffled toward it into town.
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 month
@GraduatedBen Aren’t they seats for graduation? Folded up and stacked Graduation is held right there in a few weeks
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 month
The woods outside my window are alive with brilliant green 😊
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James of Michigan 🌲
11 months
@lisamowmow @JGreenblattADL That’s a manipulative and misleading statement that’s so oft repeated Jewish roots, yes. But not a connection to modern Jews/Judaism.
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 months
@IliaCoaching @IamLewisU Did you see the β€œper 100,000” chart?
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 months
@JoePops_ @nypost I just read it, he’s 100% in the right
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 days
Then came the hard part. A long walk to Onekama after not recovering the night before, feet fell apart. Beautiful scenery though and caught some glimpses of the lake.
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 months
@DrClaytonForre1 This further disproves anyone saying poor American communities are forced to eat fast food and have bad health because it’s all they can afford… It’s way way more expensive than smart grocery shopping, even buying ribeye steaks
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James of Michigan 🌲
4 months
Just had a visitor in the yard
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James of Michigan 🌲
8 months
Today is my birthday 😊
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James of Michigan 🌲
3 months
@VitaUxoris Roald Dahl
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James of Michigan 🌲
20 days
Earlier, I scored an impromptu boat ride across the river in Holland going north, then got a Chicago hot dog and got to hang out in the kitchens out of the rain, the owner lady is a snare drummer in the big Tulip festival parade on Saturday
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James of Michigan 🌲
6 months
December 14th in Michigan
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James of Michigan 🌲
9 months
@NatCon2022 @EvaVlaar If the races were reversed, this incident would be written about in American history textbooks
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James of Michigan 🌲
10 days
The cry of a loon at night is eerie
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 year
@OhHowByronic @_deelilley @lyssasphere Man you people are miserable and deranged
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James of Michigan 🌲
3 months
@whstancil @Steve_Sailer @MindEnjoyer Notice how he always has to use these little redditor-esque personal insults Small snide remarks and name calling Why not just have a proper debate, debunking etc, if you’re right? The cringy name-calling is intellectually juvenile
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James of Michigan 🌲
1 year
@hughcards @primalpoly @nealjclark1 @DrClaytonForre1 His cartoons are well drawn but they’ve become filled with a cringeworthy, hyper political, hateful view of conservatives that’s very off-putting.
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