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hvn_nbr_2

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4. If you're banning books to prevent minds...

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Thu Feb 26, 2026, 11:42 PM

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If you're banning books to prevent minds from coming into contact with the ideas in the books, then you're in a mind control cult.

Book banners are a mind control cult.

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