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Behind the Aegis

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9. Exactly.

Reply to QueerDuck (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 02:49 PM

2 hrs ago

The dumbing down of American continues unabated. That is a Chinese government owned/created app makes me wonder if it is not intentional or just dumb luck. It is one thing to get news there, but quite another to accept it out of the gate, especially when some "journalists" are nothing more than influencers and don't know shit about the subjects they are peddling.

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