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OldBaldy1701E

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12. "And there's no reason we don't do it, other than the fact that oil is pushed so hard at us by those who profit from it"

Reply to Scrivener7 (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2026, 08:52 AM

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Yes, but it is not that it is pushed on us. We welcome it.

We do their bidding, even when it kills us.

Ask yourself (universally speaking)... why?

And, more importantly, ask yourself why it has not changed in the face of reality? Why would it never change?

Those answers always point to the same thing. Something that we refuse to understand because we want to act like it couldn't happen here.

But, it has been happening for almost a century now.

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