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calimary

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10. One of the ICKY-est slogans I've ever heard sure applies here:

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 9, 2025, 01:13 PM

Jul 2025

“Cruelty is the point.”

It even LOOKS terrible when it’s in writing.

Who the hell ever thinks this is a recommended or otherwise smart strategy? Do these perpetrators have souls? Do they stop to think of anything else beyond “I was just following orders”? That’s evidently what various Nazis said when they finally were forced to face the music.

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