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Warpy

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41. Well, totally believable if you went through the antiwar 60s

Reply to Richard58 (Reply #40)

Tue Dec 6, 2022, 03:10 PM

Dec 2022

"Spot the goons" was a frequent game we played, and they were generally pretty easy to spot.

The funny part is that they didn't need to infiltrate any of these groups, all they had to do was ask what was going on and they'd have been told. Not being fascist meant we weren't secrecy obsessed and paranoid like they were.

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