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Bluetus

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15. Or apathetic

Reply to fujiyamasan (Reply #14)

Wed Jan 21, 2026, 04:33 PM

4 hrs ago

In the US, as long as football games are on (even when they have to pay hundreds of dollars a year for streaming subscriptions) many millions are anesthetized into apathy and civics. They figure people are always arguing about politics and everything got by without their help before, so why change?

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