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Ocelot II

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30. Icarus is flying awfully close to the Sun.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2025, 02:46 PM

Jan 2025

All this shit-talking is classic hubris as in the old Greek dramas, or, to cite some other ancient wisdom, "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." (Proverbs 16:18)

It might take awhile, and the chaos they create in the meantime will be epic, but so will be their downfall. Hitler in the bunker.

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