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OC375

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4. Socially, we've been pulling private businesses into politics for a while now.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 06:56 PM

Apr 29

We wanted them in the game and throwing their weight around with stances on issues, and we're bound to disagree with a few of them.

In the end, it will be corporate blocks battling for control of the country. Kinda is anyway.

Politicians can be proxies for them, I guess..

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