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Initech

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6. Two years ago it was because oil company CEOs needed biggger yachts.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2026, 12:13 PM

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This year it's because we have a demented lunatic wannabe dictator and an ass kissing deranged holy warrior in charge of America's military and they're going on a crusade because another demented lunatic wannabe dictator is on a genocidal conquest.

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