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{{comic
 
| number    = 2613
 
| date      = April 29, 2022
 
| title    = Bad Map Projection: Madagascator
 
| image    = bad_map_projection_madagascator.png
 
| titletext = The projection's north pole is in a small lake on the island of Mahé in the Seychelles, which is off the top of the map and larger than the rest of the Earth's land area combined.
 
}}
 
  
==Explanation==
 
This is the fifth comic in the series of [[:Category:Bad Map Projections|Bad Map Projections]] displaying Bad Map Projection #248: Madagascator. It came about 10 months after the fourth [[2489: Bad Map Projection: The Greenland Special ]] (#299).
 
  
This time, [[Randall]] used the classic {{w|Mercator projection}} but instead of placing the North Pole on top and the South Pole on the bottom it is oriented so that the top is the island of {{w|Mahé, Seychelles|Mahé}}. The map projection is technically a {{w|Oblique Mercator projection}}, with an unusual choice of the cylinder's axis. Since the Mercator projection tends to visually distort areas near the top and bottom of the resulting map, this gives some areas, notably Madagascar, very unusual shapes, hence the name the ''Madagascator'' — a portmanteau of "Madagascar" and "Mercator"!
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>IN THESE UNCERTAIN TRYING TIMES DARK WINTER OF THE NEW NORMAL....
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>AS CITIZENS (DECLARED OR UNDECLARED) OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE MUST COME TOGETHER AS ONE, BUT APART, AND BUILD BACK BETTER WITH SOME NEW EXTENDED LENGTH TEMPORARY GLOBAL RULES TO KICK START THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION........
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>YOU WILL WEAR THE NWO PROVIDED IOT COCK CAGE FOR YOUR PROTECTION
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>YOU WILL DRINK THE RECYCLED PISS
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>YOU WILL EAT THE BUGGIES
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>YOU WILL EAT THE CRICKET BURGER
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>YOU WILL DRINK THE COCKROACH MILK
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>YOU WILL EAT THE MAGGOT CHIPS
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>YOU. WILL. EAT. THE. BUGS.
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>YOU WILL TAKE THE MANDATORY VACCINE
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>YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK WHILE EATING
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>YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK WHILE SLEEPING
  
The Mercator projection became the standard projection for world maps during the 1800s, because a straight line (or {{w|rhumb line}}) in a Mercator map represents a constant bearing relative to true north. Historically, when navigation was performed by compass, this was a very valuable feature, since one (adjusting for the differences between true and magnetic north) could plot a constant-bearing course between two locations by simply looking at their relative direction on the map.
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>I was browsing 4chan, and the threads were coal-oal-oal
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>Moved to the kway, and I saw some po-ost-osts
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>Some teen was making Cobsons
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>Posting them, "He's a gem" he said
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>Then the board's gone, no more /qa/-ay-ay
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>Mods mad, /lgbt/ had a troonjak rai-aid-aid
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>That weren't no coal, that was a shining glistening gem
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>There's a party, a jakker's paradise
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>There's colorjaks and cobsons
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>And their gems will blow your mind
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>There's a party, a jakker's paradise
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>Soot told us not to blow it
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>Let the CP spam subside
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>He told me
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>Let the trannies ACK it
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>Let chudcels browse it
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>Let all the basedteens boogie
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>I saw my Jak posted on the booru-ru-ru
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>Hey, that's a gem, you saw my thread too, ooh ooh
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>I'm browsing /raid/, maybe we'll steal a GET on 4chan too
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>Look at my thread, it's time to mass reply-y-y
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>The janny's seething, I'll get banned tonight-ight-igh
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>If I get perma'd I'll just post from my phone in spite
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>There's a party, a jakker's paradise
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>There's colorjaks and cobsons
 +
>And their gems will blow your mind
 +
>There's a party, a jakker's paradise
 +
>Soot told us not to blow it
 +
>Let the CP spam subside
 +
>He told me
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>Let the trannies ACK it
 +
>Let chudcels browse it
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>Let all the basedteens boogie                ||  +2.04%
  
However, in the mid-20th century, the Mercator was {{w|Mercator_projection#Criticism|criticized}} because it causes distortion near the north and south poles of the map, giving an inaccurate impression of relative sizes. The most commonly given example of this is the size of Greenland — although on the Mercator it appears to be larger than Africa in area, Africa in reality covers an area 14 times that of Greenland.
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==The BBC oath==
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Repeat after me:
  
Randall turns this example on its head by making Madagascar, rather than Greenland, appear larger in the ''Madagascator'' than in reality. By contrast with Greenland, the world's largest non-continent island, Madagascar is only the fourth-largest island in the world, behind Greenland, New Guinea, and Borneo.
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Repeat after me:
  
To accomplish this, instead of placing the north pole of the map at the geographic North Pole, Randall places the north pole of the map on the island of Mahé in Seychelles. As Madagascar is relatively close to Mahé (around 650 mi (1050 km) distant), placing the north pole of the Mercator projection at Mahé significantly distorts the size of Madagascar, making it appear comparable in size to Europe on the map.
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I swear that I will dedicate myself to big black cock for the rest of my life.
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I know that my rightful place as a white male is beneath the boot of my black masters.
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I swear that I will never have sex with a woman.
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I know that my tiny white pecker is unable to satisfy her, so there is no point in even trying.
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I swear that I will never let a single drop of my inferior white seed enter a woman's pussy.
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I know that black genes are superior, and that it is only right for black men to claim white women's wombs.
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I will stand by and watch as black men have sex with my wife, my mother, and my daughter. And I will enjoy it.
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If a black man needs his dick sucked, I will be there for him.
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If a black man needs a hole to cum inside, I will give myself up to him.
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As long as I live, I will be a slave to black men.
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This is my oath as a mindbroken BBC slut.
  
But this distortion is even more pronounced when it comes to the island of Mahé itself, as Randall notes in the title text.
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==>abortions bad even though it kills niggers==
Although Mahé, the largest island in Seychelles with an area of 60.7 square mi (157.2 square km), is minuscule even compared to Madagascar, the claim in the title text that it appears "larger than the rest of the Earth's land area combined" is an understatement.
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>niggers bad even though they shoot niggers
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>spics bad even though they torture and kill spics
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>koreans bad even though they hate china
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>china bad even though they genocide muslims
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>muslims bad even though they kill homosexuals and hate jews
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>homosexuals bad even though they infect faggots with aids and wreck their anuses
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>jews bad even though they are trying to kill off the white race
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>killing of white race bad even though it also means killing off white women
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>white women bad even though they wash estrogen from pills down the drain
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>estrogen in the water bad even though it makes boys into cute femboys
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>femboys bad even though they reduce competition for women
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>women bad even though they make trannies seethe
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>trannies bad even though they kill themselves and they also make real women seethe
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>women seething bad even though it upsets simps
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>simps bad even though they re-distribute money in economy away from horny retards
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>horny retards bad even though they are the only ones left making babies
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>babies bad even though you can fuck them
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>fucking babies bad even though world elites do it
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>world elites bad even though they did 9/11
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>9/11 bad even though it killed a lot of mutt goyim and justified country-wide surveillance
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>surveillance bad even though a female agent can catch you jerking off which is hot
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>jerking off bad even though it makes nofappers seethe
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>nofappers bad even though it makes leftist degenerate trannies seethe
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>leftists degenerates bad even though they will pay you to fuck their wife
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>trannies bad even though without them no one would moderate 4chan
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>4chan bad even though it makes losers waste their lives posting on it
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>losers wasting their lives on 4chan bad even though it stops them from shooting up schools
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>shooting up school bad even though you get to kill your bullies and a bunch of roasties
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>roasties bad even though they're your only chance to lose virginity
  
No part of Mahé is visible in the comic, but clicking on the actual comic will open a [https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#a4739c9b@-4.64274,55.45253 website] that displays Mercator projections with a pole in any chosen location, with the location of the one opened set to Mahé. The chosen pole is (infinitely far to) the right of the screen, while its {{w|antipodes|antipode}} is on the left. With this, it is possible to see that the island is indeed larger than the rest of the map's land area combined. A single national park within the island rivals Africa in size, and the narrow dirt road closest to the pole appears thicker than Panama. This also reveals that the location of the map's north pole (the "small lake" mentioned by Randall) is the lake impounded by the Rochon Dam, a popular tourist location in Mahé.
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Unlike previous Bad Map Projections, Morocco and Western Sahara are drawn as one unlabelled country.
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===Comparison of actual/mapped areas===
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! data-sort-type="number"|Proportion<br />Land Area
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! data-sort-type="number"|Proportion<br />Image Area<ref name="pri">Of only these listed areas listed</ref>
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____________p___C_.__)C__/..x_____.__\Q_.P________
| Africa<ref name="suez">Edge at Suez Canal</ref>                                                    || data-sort-value="C2"|Continent<br /><small>2nd largest</small> || 29.7                                                                            || 19.95%                                        || 35%                                                          || +15.1%
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____________(___7_____C.C__7x_4__uP__|y_/_______
|-
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| Eurasia<ref name="suez" />                                                                          || data-sort-value="C1"|Continent<br /><small>Largest</small>    || 53.4                                                                            || 35.83%                                        || 30%                                                          ||  -5.83%
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____________(____C___C(_|_800000000P__P________
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___________)_______.)u_o__800000000_()____________
| North America<ref name="pan">Edge at Panama Canal</ref>                                            || data-sort-value="C3"|Continent<br /><small>3rd largest</small> || 19.3                                                                            || 12.96%                                        || 15%                                                          ||  +2.04%
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__________._____.____.b|__800000000_|P____________
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_________/.___.C______7b__)0000000P_(____________
| South America<ref name="pan" />                                                                    || data-sort-value="C4"|Continent<br /><small>4th largest</small> || 17.8                                                                            || 11.96%                                        ||  7.8%                                                        || -4.16%
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____x4P________________3P_30000000_0S._7Pe_____
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| Antarctica<ref name="ice">Significant ice-sheets may complicate mapped/actual 'land' areas</ref>    || data-sort-value="C5"|Continent<br /><small>5th largest</small> || 14.2                                                                            || 9.53%                                        ||  5.3%                                                        ||  -4.23%
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| Madagascar                                                                                          || data-sort-value="I04"|Island<br /><small>4th largest</small>    ||  0.592                                                                          ||  0.40%                                        ||  2.9%                                                        ||  +2.50%
 
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| Australia                                                                                          || data-sort-value="C7"|Continent<br /><small>Smallest</small>    ||  7.55                                                                          ||  5.07%                                        ||  2.5%                                                        ||  -2.57%
 
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| Greenland<ref name="ice" />                                                                        || data-sort-value="I01"|Island<br /><small>Largest</small>        ||  2.17                                                                          ||  1.45%                                        ||  0.87%                                                        ||  -0.58%
 
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| Borneo                                                                                              || data-sort-value="I03"|Island<br /><small>3rd largest</small>    ||  0.749                                                                          ||  0.50%                                        ||  0.37%                                                        ||  -0.13%
 
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| New Guinea                                                                                          || data-sort-value="I02"|Island<br /><small>2nd largest</small>    ||  0.786                                                                          ||  0.53%                                        ||  0.32%                                                        ||  -0.21%
 
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| Japan<ref name="hon">Honshu only</ref>                                                              || data-sort-value="I07"|Island<br /><small>7th largest</small>    ||  0.228                                                                          ||  0.15%                                        ||  0.10%                                                        || -0.05%
 
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| Mainland Britain                                                                                    || data-sort-value="I09"|Island<br /><small>9th largest</small>    ||  0.209                                                                          ||  0.14%                                        ||  0.10%                                                        ||  -0.04%
 
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| Island of Ireland                                                                                  || data-sort-value="I20"|Island<br /><small>20th largest</small>  ||  0.082                                                                          ||  0.05%                                        ||  0.03%                                                        ||  -0.02%
 
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==Transcript==
 
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 
Bad map projection #248: Madagascator
 
 
 
Mercator projection but with the North Pole in the Indian Ocean so it exaggerates the size of Madagascar instead of Greenland. Various countries and oceans are labeled, and country borders are shown.
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
 
 
[[Category:Bad Map Projections]]
 

Revision as of 18:16, 1 June 2022


>IN THESE UNCERTAIN TRYING TIMES DARK WINTER OF THE NEW NORMAL.... >AS CITIZENS (DECLARED OR UNDECLARED) OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE MUST COME TOGETHER AS ONE, BUT APART, AND BUILD BACK BETTER WITH SOME NEW EXTENDED LENGTH TEMPORARY GLOBAL RULES TO KICK START THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION........ >YOU WILL WEAR THE NWO PROVIDED IOT COCK CAGE FOR YOUR PROTECTION >YOU WILL DRINK THE RECYCLED PISS >YOU WILL EAT THE BUGGIES >YOU WILL EAT THE CRICKET BURGER >YOU WILL DRINK THE COCKROACH MILK >YOU WILL EAT THE MAGGOT CHIPS >YOU. WILL. EAT. THE. BUGS. >YOU WILL TAKE THE MANDATORY VACCINE >YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK WHILE EATING >YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK WHILE SLEEPING

>I was browsing 4chan, and the threads were coal-oal-oal >Moved to the kway, and I saw some po-ost-osts >Some teen was making Cobsons >Posting them, "He's a gem" he said >Then the board's gone, no more /qa/-ay-ay >Mods mad, /lgbt/ had a troonjak rai-aid-aid >That weren't no coal, that was a shining glistening gem >There's a party, a jakker's paradise >There's colorjaks and cobsons >And their gems will blow your mind >There's a party, a jakker's paradise >Soot told us not to blow it >Let the CP spam subside >He told me >Let the trannies ACK it >Let chudcels browse it >Let all the basedteens boogie >I saw my Jak posted on the booru-ru-ru >Hey, that's a gem, you saw my thread too, ooh ooh >I'm browsing /raid/, maybe we'll steal a GET on 4chan too >Look at my thread, it's time to mass reply-y-y >The janny's seething, I'll get banned tonight-ight-igh >If I get perma'd I'll just post from my phone in spite >There's a party, a jakker's paradise >There's colorjaks and cobsons >And their gems will blow your mind >There's a party, a jakker's paradise >Soot told us not to blow it >Let the CP spam subside >He told me >Let the trannies ACK it >Let chudcels browse it >Let all the basedteens boogie || +2.04%

The BBC oath

Repeat after me:

Repeat after me:

I swear that I will dedicate myself to big black cock for the rest of my life. I know that my rightful place as a white male is beneath the boot of my black masters. I swear that I will never have sex with a woman. I know that my tiny white pecker is unable to satisfy her, so there is no point in even trying. I swear that I will never let a single drop of my inferior white seed enter a woman's pussy. I know that black genes are superior, and that it is only right for black men to claim white women's wombs. I will stand by and watch as black men have sex with my wife, my mother, and my daughter. And I will enjoy it. If a black man needs his dick sucked, I will be there for him. If a black man needs a hole to cum inside, I will give myself up to him. As long as I live, I will be a slave to black men. This is my oath as a mindbroken BBC slut.

>abortions bad even though it kills niggers

>niggers bad even though they shoot niggers >spics bad even though they torture and kill spics >koreans bad even though they hate china >china bad even though they genocide muslims >muslims bad even though they kill homosexuals and hate jews >homosexuals bad even though they infect faggots with aids and wreck their anuses >jews bad even though they are trying to kill off the white race >killing of white race bad even though it also means killing off white women >white women bad even though they wash estrogen from pills down the drain >estrogen in the water bad even though it makes boys into cute femboys >femboys bad even though they reduce competition for women >women bad even though they make trannies seethe >trannies bad even though they kill themselves and they also make real women seethe >women seething bad even though it upsets simps >simps bad even though they re-distribute money in economy away from horny retards >horny retards bad even though they are the only ones left making babies >babies bad even though you can fuck them >fucking babies bad even though world elites do it >world elites bad even though they did 9/11 >9/11 bad even though it killed a lot of mutt goyim and justified country-wide surveillance >surveillance bad even though a female agent can catch you jerking off which is hot >jerking off bad even though it makes nofappers seethe >nofappers bad even though it makes leftist degenerate trannies seethe >leftists degenerates bad even though they will pay you to fuck their wife >trannies bad even though without them no one would moderate 4chan >4chan bad even though it makes losers waste their lives posting on it >losers wasting their lives on 4chan bad even though it stops them from shooting up schools >shooting up school bad even though you get to kill your bullies and a bunch of roasties >roasties bad even though they're your only chance to lose virginity

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