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33. Kicked! This fact, this history has never gotten enough attention. Instead, we write and consequrently learn a history

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Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:24 PM

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that is palatable to the "aristocrats". It works because it's no different really than the tactics used by the illicit drug "industry". Make friends with the young grommets on the street corner, give them some free narcotic, and then some more, wean them from the free stuff once they're addicted to expand their market and maybe even convince some to peddle for them, further and expanding their pyramid scheme. They just do it with nice stuff for cheap, i.e., within the limits of what they are willing to pay us for our labor.

Really -- this does not an iota of the attention it deserves ... in the media, educationally, or from our "leaders".

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