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9. I'm certain that's the aim of all of this

Reply to Paladin (Reply #7)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 07:55 PM

Aug 21

...to wear us out and make us question our own ability to change this.

There are only a few levers right now to directly confront them, so it's all about disrupting and delaying their efforts to repeal the 20th century.

Most of this is dog and pony, smoke and mirrors, hoping they just wear us down and tip the scale so far that they're inevitable.

It's just one cycle though, so we'll have to see what happens (my new catch phrase).

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