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JT45242

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1. And yet they recruit for the military in strip malls...

Reply to brewens (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 08:03 AM

Apr 2024

You can twist this a lot of ways. Fanaticism leads to many atrocities.

But, more often than not, religion and politics have been used by the rich and powerful to get the poor to do their bidding and accumulate more wealth and power by any means necessary.

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And yet they recruit for the military in strip malls... JT45242 Apr 2024 #1