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bucolic_frolic

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2. In regards to the first video, in a crisis

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Sun Apr 5, 2026, 01:57 PM

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we protect the system and therefore the wealthy, and the lower classes can catch what they can. So it's socialism for the rich at high price tags and survival-of-the-fittest capitalist Darwinism for the masses. He's right on the money at a pace ordinary folks can understand.

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