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BobTheSubgenius

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8. You have to admit, though...feudalism lasted a really, really long time.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #7)

Mon May 10, 2021, 10:27 PM

May 2021

There were examples of feudalism that existed into the 20th Century and are probably still found today, if you know where to look.

But that is no reason to try to take a modern society backwards, which is what some of our less enlightened citizens seem hellbent on doing.

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