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JI7

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10. These people are so fucking dependent on Government

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Wed May 21, 2025, 10:36 AM

May 21

but the talk about cutting government spending always appeals to them becsuse they don't think of themselves as the ones that benefit. They think of black and brown people they see as unfairly getting things.

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