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Voltaire2

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107. They aren't ultimatums.

Mon Dec 30, 2024, 03:56 PM

Dec 2024

Nobody is ordering you around. Even if the alleged utterances were phrased as you suggest, nobody posting them has any control at all over your behavior.

Now go delete your op.

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