This is not to absolve the U.S. and the U.N. for their various wrongdoings, but it should be said that nobody that earns the title of warlord does it without themselves being a dick.

Nobody involved at the top of any part of the situation is a good person.

You can't become a warlord practicing radical tenderness.

I'm the tender warlord.

I'm the empath warlord. We're sitting around in a circle and talking about their needs and her feelings. Oh, fuck. That's my like 2010's SoundCloud emo rap name, The Tender Warlord.

That was just Young Lean in 2012.

It's the paradox, isn't it, Joe?

We were talking about, you know, like, no, no warlord is simply a

warlord.

They are equally a politician, and it's always a mix of the two things.

And the point is that, like, for all warlords, in any kind of

conflict, it's like, well, of course I would like eventually for this to be resolved and for there to be

a political leader who restabilizes the country. That then has to be set against the thing that

it should be me. Yeah, exactly. It should be me and my lot with all the guns.

Specifically, I think it'll be better for everyone if it was me.

And I believe that so strongly, I am going to continue being a warlord until you all agree with me.

Muhammad I deed, like, just single-handedly ruling Somalia with 100,000 AK-47s and a single copy of bellhooks, the will to change.

There's so many separate group chats being set up as the guests,

as negotiations continually break down.

Muhammad Faradid sitting down, you know, his foe, Muhammad and I'd be like, listen,

I believe in something called radical honesty.

I feel like we really need to talk about this as he's surrounded by dudes and Toyota's doing donuts with machine cuts.

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