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Martin68

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38. I dictatorship affects every aspect of life every day. It always uses a secret police and encourages neighbors and

Sun May 4, 2025, 12:32 PM

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family to inform on each other. What actually happens in many cases is that people with grudges falsely accuse their neighbors of crimes to get them jailed (or worse).

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Everything drumpf touches, dies biophile May 2025 #1

Yes this is what I cannot understand Dem4life1970 May 2025 #10

One of the worst humans...pure evil and profoundly stupid. Really bad combination. pnwest May 2025 #30

But at least he destroyed the USA. Which has been his primary long term goal. Irish_Dem May 2025 #2

Yup, gab13by13 May 2025 #3

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Great post. I like it a LOT! calimary May 2025 #5

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Ditto the Obamas, the Clintons, the rest of them... displacedvermoter May 2025 #29

Schumer's plan to let the GOP show who they are would have LiberalArkie May 2025 #37

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In Your Heart..You Know Even a Stopped Clock is Right Twice-A-Day TearsOfDaClowned May 2025 #33

In your brain you know he's nuts. Marcuse May 2025 #39

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They want to rule the world because they are weird, greedy, sociopathic men. Marcuse May 2025 #40

Good, and hopeful point. NNadir May 2025 #9

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Oops, looks like Putin's grand plan to rule the world PatSeg May 2025 #14

We need a wartime consigliere!!! Pesky1 May 2025 #15

I keep saying this, and I will continue to say it until it changes. The US is not a dictatorship. Trump is trying his Martin68 May 2025 #18

I worked with a woman from the former Czechosolvakia who was once gifted a subscription to OMGWTF May 2025 #27

I dictatorship affects every aspect of life every day. It always uses a secret police and encourages neighbors and Martin68 May 2025 #38

K&R, Do Town Halls. c-rational May 2025 #19

I thought the same thing this morning BaronChocula May 2025 #21

WAKE UP AMERICA! Blue Owl May 2025 #22

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Profound malaise May 2025 #36