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paleotn

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20. He has a habit of occasionally saying the right things. Broken clock moment. But...and here's the big but...

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #11)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 07:13 PM

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He doesn't actually DO ANYTHING about it. EVER. Too much money to be made by his buddies and himself.

Magat garbage humans will occasionally regurgitate shit like this, and purposefully fail to state that he didn't DO a goddamn thing.

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