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Congratulations! Your Substack is truly unique, humorous and interesting! I’m glad you’re finding success and I hope you can ditch the ‘other’ paycheck forever.

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Thanks Alison. Glad my unique humor is appreciated. Let's hope we keep growing to that point.

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Nostrovia!! I’m happy Putin has a few rubles to throw your way even after the unmitigated disaster that is his invasion of Ukraine. Substack is a steaming pile of manure and you make it a little stinkier!!

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Congratulations -- and hugely inspiring post! You deserve everything good coming your way. I look forward to seeing your growth, on the way to complete independence, in the months and years ahead. God bless.

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Thank you, Paul! To fellow readers - I highly recommend subscribing to his Substack. He is one of the brightest MAGA legal minds out there.

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Just subscribed

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Frankly I don't remember which is the first Substack that I ever read. It could have been Yuri's. At any rate, I quicky realized how significant Substack is. There are some other sites that are essentially censorship free (and of course many that are propaganda sites disguised as free speech). But Substack is incredibly literate and fact-based, as evidenced by Yuri's own site.

Perhaps a hundred years from now, if the totalitarian state hasn't achieved full control, people will look back as the early 2000's and evaluate the extent to which unfettered free speech, unfiltered by corporate media, changed everything. I'm old enough to remember when all that any of us new was what the legacy media told us. Those days are gone, and will never return, as long as we fight hard to preserve our freedom.

Progressive totalitarianism is collapsing before our eyes, unable to withstand the onslaught from honest, rational people. Keep it UP!

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Congratulations and keep leading the charge. You have inspired me and I now know there are more of us out here than I thought. Thank you for your leadership. I too am in Fupaz suburban absurdland and am encouraged daily to come out of the shadows and get this spine stronger. You are taking great risk to be a light in the darkness so keep up the great work...please!! 😁🙏

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All the best, Yuri. I still love to see you grinding out pithy top comments in other writers' Substacks. Working for those subs.

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Thanks Jim. Commenting is its own art form. Comments sections are where the action is, always fun to crash other parties.

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I enjoy seeing your comments on other Substacks that I follow. It shows we are forming a little community here.

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I will share this with a friend whom I (and others) pushed to join Substack. He seems to worry about his slow growth of participants.

He, like you is smart and pithy. As a Brit, he "gets us" and is not afraid to voice his opinion.

Hopefully this will encourage him to hang in there. 🙂

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Congratulations! This is a great post! Since our initial, delightful interaction, it has been great getting to know you through your writing and your memes, which I share, and now even more through this post; Bravo and keep up the great work, which serves as ‘wind behind my back’, having been one who 3.5 years ago thought ‘why does no one else see what is really happening’ . I join Alison’s ‘hope you can ditch the ‘other’ paycheck’!

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We all could use extra wind and fire from words and memes ;)

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Indeed! Thank you!

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Bravo and well done. Sanity is not statistical.

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Congratulations! All I can say from my end is that you have earned a lifetime subscriber in me. Yours is my favorite Substack and I subscribe to 15. I will literally drop 14 other subscriptions if it comes to it. Can't wait for the next post!

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Thanks Brandy. You are too kind! The next two are ready to go on Thursday and Sunday, hope you enjoy. I have ~10 drafts cooking at any given moment, just takes time to marinate until they are ready for you.

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“We would hide each other under the floorboards and bunk together in the gulags.”😂🫶🏻 I have discovered Yuri and several other fantastic creators in the comments section. Thank you for the hope, humor, and tools you bring to the demoralization zone.

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Job well done!

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Ivy exiles of the world, unite!

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Yuri, thanks for being here. I have been writing under the pen name Silence DoGood since the end of 2018, when I had zero followers on Twitter, and grew that to 35k+ but was banned Jan 8, 2021. I found myself on Telegram, where I rebuilt my digital army to around 24K followers now. I teach my readers about what I know in the world on topics such as precious metals, the economy, the financial world, and like yourself, trying to give people a peek behind the curtain, having done a myriad of jobs over the last two decades (I too am a millennial, with 5 children)! I love your pen name, and what Yuri stood for. The man had principles, and in a world run amok, he figured it out. In this world, a little bit of discernment can turn into a great deal of wisdom, especially when most of the children are figuratively running around drinking sugar water out of fountains (I travel back to the scene in Idiocracy). Although I am on the opposite coast residing in New England, I hope to one day meet you in person. Regardless of what any judgers might say about you, you are a true American Patriot!

Many blessings,

Silence DoGood

☕✝️

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Gee, I wonder what they banned you for?? ;)

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Congratulations!

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Proud of you Yuri 😇

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I know I look forward to you posts.

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Congrats, Yuri! And great pointers :)

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