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Initech

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9. One thing the news didn't tell you about Black Friday this year:

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Mon Dec 29, 2025, 10:33 PM

Dec 2025

Yeah sure it was a "retail miracle", but if you read the fine print, so many people put their shit on payment plans it wasn't funny.

If you need a payment plan to pay for $110 worth of stuff, that's not a sign of economic prosperity. That's a sign something is truly, deeply wrong.

Yet you'll never hear about it on the news because the cult and Fuckface himself have the media wrapped around their finger, and he will scream and whine if anything bad is said about him.

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I am impressed with Libre Skittles Dec 2025 #13

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I hear you Skittles Dec 2025 #17

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yeah I had that 10 buck copy from work, used it for years Skittles Dec 2025 #19

You can still The Bopper Dec 2025 #14

One thing the news didn't tell you about Black Friday this year: Initech Dec 2025 #9

You've nabbed it! some_of_us_are_sane Dec 2025 #12

thanks for all the responses. Im still using stand alone software versions, no subcriptions at all like msongs Dec 2025 #16

From a corporate perspective fujiyamasan Dec 2025 #20