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edhopper

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5. I wish that were true

Reply to multigraincracker (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:32 PM

Dec 2025

But it has never happened.

French Revolution? No, mainly the philosophical elite, and then soon a dictatorship.

Russian Revolution? No., we saw the outcome.

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