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kairos12

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Thu Apr 16, 2026, 10:32 AM Thursday

H.S. Thompson. Well, yep. [View all]

"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy-then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel."

H.S.T. wisdom.

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