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Uncle Joe

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5. The oligarchs became alarmed because the people were waking up to their morbid greed,

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Fri Dec 6, 2024, 10:54 AM

Dec 6

and it's dead end impact on human society, so now they've come out from behind the curtain to dominate humanity in any way they can so as to "nip it in the bud" as Barney Fife would say.

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