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rampartd

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11. the day of the escalator

Reply to Johonny (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 12:06 PM

4 hrs ago

1 knew he would win, knew it would be bad, but i expected a free market capitalist dystopia, not a soviet style cult of personality.

2. knew that 1/2 of americans would love it.

3. i never dreamed it would be permanent. it is. they are dug in until we lose a world war.

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