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2. Greed only gets to part of it

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sat Feb 22, 2020, 03:20 PM

Feb 2020

Because many people are in it at a cost because they get a sick psychological boost from the sadistic enforcement of their social hierarchy.

Many magats are happy to get fleeced by rich republicans as long as they're told how superior they are to blacks or women or foreigners or whatever.

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