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SergeStorms

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4. This right here.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 01:58 PM

Thursday

"No one can feel secure unless everyone lives under laws that regulate what each may do."

When the very wealthy are allowed to buy the government and laws they want, everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
That's exactly where we are currently.

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