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EdmondDantes_

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4. That's a shortsighted argument

Reply to lostincalifornia (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 1, 2026, 01:47 PM

Apr 1

Because it also gets us what you think they deserve. If the best argument you can muster is you think they deserve to suffer for not voting for us, you're not giving them an affirmative reason, or a reason to trust us, or a reason to compromise with us when there are inevitably differences on some issues.

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