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hifiguy

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6. Lenin was right about one thing:

Reply to Ferd Berfel (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 07:47 PM

Nov 2015

"Fascism is capitalism in decay."

And we've been a basically fascist country since the mid-1980s. And two "Democratic" presidents challenged not one bit of it but did help the Neo-fascist project achieve many of its goals.

We have been royally chumped, friends. ROYALLY chumped.

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