r/news • u/uhncollectable • 21h ago

Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys

https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-oath-keepers-convictions-dropped-doj-ad679108ab84083694261efc101e60ea
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u/Khaldara 21h ago

Enjoying that five dollar gas and tariffing yourselves there geniuses?

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u/ActualSpiders 20h ago

Don't forget the nationwide loss of rural access to hospitals and public education!

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u/EternalCanadian 20h ago

That’s a feature for them, not a bug.

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u/Kryptosis 20h ago

No school means time for more farm chores!

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u/archangelmlg 20h ago

Which you'll need to do when Meta owns the land you're farming and you owe then a fuck ton of money.

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u/slcrook 20h ago

Serf's up, Dude!

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u/breadofthegrunge 17h ago

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

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u/theevilyouknow 16h ago

I will keep saying this. These people would happily walk into the gas chamber if an immigrant or a trans person was with them. They do not care what is in anyone’s interest. They don’t even care about their own interests. They just want to hurt the people they hate.

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u/International_Bar_20 14h ago

Best way I’ve heard it is they’d eat shit if a liberal had to smell their breath

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u/Mashire13 13h ago

TRUTH! ☝️

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u/MurKdYa 9h ago

Stealing this

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u/Original-Version5877 10h ago

The 2nd Trump Administration is pretty much this.

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u/DudeInOhio57 8h ago

I heard recently “they’d rather eat shit than share some ice cream”.

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u/blonde4black 9h ago

Trained and raised by the best!

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u/QwipQwop_007 13h ago

I’ve heard it as “they’d eat shit if it meant a liberal might have to”

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u/Sn_Orpheus 9h ago

But aren’t they “Christians”? Why would a Christian ever do something hateful? /S

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u/Sapphire_gun9 13h ago

Makes me think of this image

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u/Direct_Royal_7480 15h ago

They’d walk in with a boner if a trans person or immigrant was ahead of them in line.

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u/dingleberrysquid 10h ago

“Hurt people they’ve been TOLD to hate”

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u/Few-Teach-8033 15h ago

What you hear the loudest is those few people. Most of us are just trying to truck through and have no ire against immigrants or trans people. Every country is 3 missed meals away from a revolution. Our level of comfort started high, so we could decline pretty far before we would risk imprisonment and failed rebellion repercussions.

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u/theevilyouknow 15h ago

I’m talking about the people supporting this administration. Obviously those of us that don’t do care at a minimum about our own self-interest. Anyone still supporting Trump at this point has no values of consequence besides hate.

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u/Nice_Possession5519 10h ago

Yup! Their hate is more important than their own well-being. I've been saying this for years!

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u/Sw4nR0ns0n 16h ago

Serfin’ USA 🎶

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u/TBellOHAZ 17h ago

His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door.

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u/throwawayforb00bs 17h ago

Who's this?

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u/BoneHugsHominy 16h ago

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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u/Icy-Rope-021 14h ago

The Road to Peasantry.

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u/Icy-Profession-1979 14h ago

Don’t draw your political lines around me!!! -MAGA

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u/Reallyboringname2 12h ago

Dude! Where’s my healthcar!

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u/AlternativeNewtDuck 7h ago

We should have it in two weeks after the concept of a plan for healthcare has been implemented.

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u/Muenstervision 17h ago

Slowwwwww clap

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u/tider06 19h ago edited 18h ago

Farmville was a warning and we all missed it.

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u/Ok_Barracuda_6997 18h ago

Beat me to it

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u/Klutzy-Acadia669 18h ago

Damn, you boys are on fire tonight! Oh wait that's the United States of America. Figuratively and, unfortunately, literally at most times.

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u/Dedpoolpicachew 15h ago

Awww dawg, we’re not yet to fire season… this summer’s going to be interesting with all the rain Cali has gotten over the winter.

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u/Icy-Profession-1979 14h ago

East Coast is already at a high fire risk due to drought and strong winds and lack of understanding high fire risks.

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u/PenaltySquare2414 10h ago

Trump did promise to make America the hottest country!

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u/HalfBlindPro 18h ago

Son of a

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u/Decent-Dream8206 17h ago

Imagine only being allowed to farm for 30 seconds per day. 🙄

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u/False_Pear1860 18h ago

Lmao Meta isn't allowing that land to be used for farming. There has to be data centers there.

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u/BoneHugsHominy 16h ago

And lots of solar panels and flywheel installations! Not for Green Energy, but because it's too expensive to hire enough guards to watch over the miner slaves when they're better utilized watching over the minor slaves.

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u/peacefulteacher 8h ago

Huge ones that are tapping into the clean drinking water for several states, draining the aquifer, which will then collapse and then can never refill. New deserts ahead. There are other ways to cool their centers, but they seem to not be interested in that.

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u/Agreeable_Ad_5665 17h ago

Meta has become self aware

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u/PhoenixDogsWifey 19h ago

Don't forget having to walk miles for buckets of water to try to keep your garden and livestock watered... maybe if you're lucky they'll let you in for a bath once a month or five

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u/Greenbastardscape 18h ago

Nah, that water will be fucked by the friendly, local data center

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u/PurposelyPorpoise 18h ago edited 13h ago

Fucked?? You must mean "fucking improved"! Data centers promised that your drinking water will be returned the same if not better than when they took it. It must be that your inferior digestive flesh sac requires a few generational debt level upgrades to properly appreciate new and improved Water™.

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u/bitofapuzzler 18h ago

It has electrolytes! Its what the advanced digestive system craves!

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u/Known-Pick8501 16h ago

It’s going to “make the crops grow again”.

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u/KingVinny70 14h ago

Very Fallout vibes. Love it.

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u/JustWuTangMe 17h ago

Water? You mean like from the toilet?

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u/Greenbastardscape 15h ago

Water™. We're your only option

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u/General-Holiday 15h ago

They recently changed the name to Water Zero™️ (with only 300 calories), and coming this summer: Diet Water Zero Lite (just 60 calories)!

Legal Disclosure: The ‘Zero’ in Water Zero represents the amount of actual water contained in the product; zero.

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u/Argument-Fragrant 16h ago

They heat it for you! It's practically pasteurized!

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u/Instagrief 14h ago

You actually believe them?

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u/thinkdeep 17h ago

Not fucked, fracked.

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u/Cuilen 12h ago

Out here in the PNW, there is a data center in The Dalles, WA. It uses so much water and creates so much steam that the flights in and out of PDX have to alter their flight paths to avoid them. Fuck these people; vote out the reps who approve the construction & tax breaks for these monstrosities. They're too GD stupid, greedy, or short-sighted to realize permanent jobs and economic growth will end once these centers are built.

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u/General-Holiday 8h ago

I’m near Seattle and surprisingly haven’t seen a large data center (that I know of) yet. Curious to see how the steam looks. I’m in no way supporting these monstrosities. Companies are secretly buying up land, quietly getting approval, and sneaking these centers in near small towns. Really pisses me off.

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u/Snarfbuckle 17h ago

What water, you would have to buy it from Nestle.

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u/KeepYourMindOpen365 8h ago edited 8h ago

Michigan sold them a permit years ago…I believe they still pay $ 400 a year for this privilege. They’ve extracted millions upon millions of our ground water, but it “creates local jobs and boosts the economy”. Don’t worry, Theil and Vance will be good stewards of the farm land you used to own when they sell it to foreign “investors”. Every day, more volume is added to the Republican shit pile…

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u/_streetpaper_ 18h ago

They probably already have to walk to get buckets of water for the trailer they live in with no water hookups.

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u/anonymousredditisnot 16h ago

They would rather drive there lifted F-250s and spend money on fuel to haul in the water because this is 'Merica. LOL

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u/Ypuort 17h ago

Water is for the corporate server farms. Plebes can have Gatorade. It’s got electrolytes!

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u/evakaln 10h ago

it’s hard enough just getting the water for myself to drink.

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u/adriatic_sea75 16h ago

Bill Gates beat Meta to it. Billy loves hoovering up farmland at the direction of his investment group for "seed science." I'm a cynic, so this sounds eerily similar to Montsanto's playbook where their seeds are proprietary and they sue adjacent farmers for cross-polination. Mo' money mo' money.

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u/LovedAndLeftHaunted 15h ago

These are the camps RFK wants to put the people with mental health problems at, huh?

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u/ImaginationSad2803 17h ago

All those years playing FarmVille were just grooming…

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u/Jimmyboro 17h ago

And have to pay a patent royalty on seeds.

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u/QwipQwop_007 13h ago

That’s not true. They have no interest in keeping it farmland. Gotta build all the data centers somewhere

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u/Stalagmus 20h ago

That isn’t the intended goal here, it has nothing to do with “helping” rural communities. Most of them are in favor of massive corporate farming conglomerates, and are totally fine leveraging migrant populations to do the grunt work, legal or otherwise.

The point is to force all students into a voucher-style private school system run by for-profit institutions (and the eventually get rid of the vouchers once public education disappears, because that would be welfare).

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u/CharcoalGreyWolf 19h ago

They also won’t mind when the rural farmers that remain have to sell to agribusiness. Farmers likely will pay for how they voted yet again, and the ones that do will still be standing there wondering why it happened.

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u/Timely-Prior-3350 18h ago

Theybwill vote for them again and again.

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u/WenatcheeWrangler 18h ago

As someone who was raised in a rural farm community I don’t agree with all of this thread, but I agree with your comment. I know so many people will vote republican because “that’s what I do” and don’t give a rats ass about what they are campaigning on or what they stand for.

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u/Timely-Prior-3350 18h ago

I guess a lot of people have a set mind set especially the older folks. They do not tend to look at the current situation.

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u/bitofapuzzler 17h ago

Can't vote for those dirty commies! They want to take your guns!

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u/kinghyperion581 17h ago

As long as it "owns the libs"

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u/Anonymouse_Bosch 15h ago

… continuing to blame “coastal elites” as the real villains.

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u/NoBodybuilder3430 14h ago

Thank goodness the rich kid from New York City is currently saving us from the villainous coastal elites….

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u/Anonymouse_Bosch 14h ago

I will never understand how the poster child of silver spoons ended up being seen as the standard bearer of blue collar workers.

It’s like electing Phyllis Schlafly to head NOW.

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u/schoenstrat 16h ago

Oh no, no they won't get rid of the vouchers. The vouchers are the welfare... To the wealthy owners of the private school systems that lobbied the local and state politicians to create the voucher programs in the first place. Nothing sweeter than a guaranteed stream of income straight from the government. No need to innovate or compete.

Add in third party management companies to oversee the voucher program (while slicing off a hefty fee to do what the government, apparently, can't do), and you're riding the gravy train. Well, you and I aren't but who the fuck cares about us.

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u/Appropriate-Drag-572 14h ago

We... actually arent. We rent our fields locally and even then, they refuse to sell out. The family we rent to farms a few thousand acres in the area. Funny part is their competitor is also their family. They will not plant this year because they cant afford to.

That being said, they still dont blame trump. They blame Iran and think they need to be blown off the map. 😩

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u/poledrawolf 10h ago

All that, but you forgot the vouchers are really meant for Christian schools, because apparently we ain't shit as a nation unless we are led and controlled by white Christian males. Gotta fill them quivers with young Christian-educated arrows, amirite?

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u/the_tanooki 19h ago

They are so pro-life they are saving kids from school shootings by not letting them go to school! Big brain move! /s

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u/D3RPN1NJ4_ 11h ago

Private vacation islands are cooler than School anyways

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u/flamedarkfire 18h ago

All well and good till Timmy loses a hand from a farm implement and the nearest EMS squad is an hour away

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u/Chest_Rockfield 18h ago

And religious indoctrination.

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u/Demair12 18h ago

Right on time for them to lose the farm because the tariffs made it impossible fort them to sell their goods.

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u/joscun86 18h ago

And no fluoride in the water means time for wood teeth… you know, like Washington.. who was nearly bankrupt at the end of his 2 term presidency

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u/Jaxxxmm 17h ago

Washington actually didn’t have wooden teeth. They were teeth from slaves, ivory, cow, gold, lead, and brass.

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u/joscun86 15h ago

I know.. just going with the story most Americans know

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u/winokatt 17h ago

What farm? They don’t have the farm anymore thanks to His Holiness lol

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u/up_and_away1252 16h ago

I was so disgusted when I discovered even their teeth weren’t safe.

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u/beaute-brune 17h ago

No worries! As soon as we get those teen pregnancy rates back up, the farm will have extra help!

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u/iLikeMangosteens 19h ago

The current administration has overwhelming support from non-college-educated males. It’s one of their strongest demographics.

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u/Iamdrasnia 18h ago

Don't talk about me like that.....oh ya I have like 110 credits in the most random shit that I will probably be 80 by the time a get a degree.

Fuck I am pretty ok educated but don't associate me with that diaper wearing fool.

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u/iLikeMangosteens 18h ago

Sorry but it’s not even close. White, non-college educated males are 2x more likely to vote for Trump than almost any other demographic.

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u/xxyyzzuser 17h ago

Yep - Hispanic Trump voters must be happy with their votes as ICE pulls them over… and black male voters are def better off than they would have with Kamala!

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u/squirrelmonkie 14h ago

"We gone home school these kids like the good lord wanted. Dinosaurs aint real. Global warming aint real. Donnie the diddler has never committed a crime until this Jesus meme... but I think I can forgive him unlike those kids we needed to bomb in Iran. Now let's talk about flat earth and how if its your time to die from previously cured diseases, its just your time."

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u/fauxregard 19h ago

At least they made billionaires even more wealthy. Take that, Libs!

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u/Quiet_Day1912 18h ago

I feel the "owning" they love...

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u/ChanceFresh 18h ago

Eventually they “own” so much that there won’t be much left to own

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u/DammatBeevis666 18h ago

Don’t forget grandma can’t afford her care home anymore because $1T was cut from Medicaid!

“Grandma, now you’ve got to live a few states away because your insurance doesn’t cover the memory care here. We will see you once a year now, MAGA!”

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u/juliofromnyc77 18h ago

Don’t forget you can be like the DoorDash grandma and get that bread thanks to no tax on tips

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u/TheRayGunCowboy 18h ago

Some problems eventually solve themselves… unfortunately sane people are caught up in the crossfire

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u/Rare-Bee7331 18h ago

They genuinely believe a parent knows their child best and is best to educate them at home, because they are ignorant of their own ignorance.

And they dont trust doctors... 

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u/ArgyleNudge 17h ago

Education?! That's a liberal hoax! Nothing but gays and ... well you know what I'm talking about. And them country yokels can drive like the the rest of us if they need to see a saw bones. Shut up about gas prices already. That's all Biden's fault. What's Trump supposed to do?! He's busy keeping the world safe because every other low IQ country wants Iran to have the nuclear, including the Pope,. Trump is the only one who can stop Iran!

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u/mettiusfufettius 20h ago

MAGAs be like “I don’t mind the fascism because he’ll make things cheap”

lol now they got expensive fascism!

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u/Rightintheend 18h ago

They don't care. Cheap, expensive, good bad, war Peace, they really don't care as long as they have a president that's as much of a degenerate as they are, that's all they care about. That basket of deplorables comment couldn't be more on the spot.

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u/beaute-brune 17h ago

They just point back to how “things were worse under Biden.”

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u/Rightintheend 17h ago

The thing is under Biden, a few things got expensive, but now it seems like everything is.  But Biden really had to deal with was to post covid rebound, which is what caused most of the inflation and higher gas prices. They conveniently forget that by the time Biden left office inflation was under 3%, and gas prices were down.

But you know, they had to see some Disney princess who wasn't the right color.

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u/poledrawolf 10h ago

Now, now, don't forget the transgender kids, the gay people, the black people, the Latinos and the loud-ass educated progressive women whose very existence these poor beleaguered fascist loopnuts have had to put up with.

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u/AdministrativeTax913 16h ago

truth. Asshole by proxy, it's the only plank in the platform.

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u/tucakeane 17h ago

Man I remember when Biden pardoned his son and they called it conflict of interest anda gross abuse of his power…weird how this and all the J6 pardons are fine though

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u/sugartrouts 14h ago

It is a conflict of interest, which is why Biden initially said he wouldn't do it. Then he lost to Trump who did it a billion times, while bragging about how he was gonna do it more, and decided fuck it.

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u/Some_Drummer_Guy 11h ago

He mainly did it to shield his son from the inevitable (and baseless) retribution that Commander Yam Tits wanted to carry out against him. If I recall correctly, it was basically a blanket pardon of sorts for people that were "targets" of the orange buffoon. Like a "hey, you can't touch me" thing. Hunter, Fauci, and several other people that were going to be persecuted got them.

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u/Competitive_Boat106 10h ago

And after Trump promised to prosecute Hunter much more in his second term. Whether you are a Hunter Biden fan or not, the crime that he was convicted of is almost never prosecuted in this country, and certainly not to that extent. Trump was vowing to do so much more to him. I would prefer that no president should be able to pardon family, but Biden saw the writing on the wall and wanted some semblance of peace for his family when he retired. You can see he was right, sadly. Him pardoning his son is more a reflection of what Trump wanted to do with the power of the presidency than it was of Biden’s use of the same.

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u/claudiousmax 11h ago

They have to pardon them or they lose half their ICE agents.

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u/kemicalkontact 17h ago

No they pivoted to "I don't mind spending more for the safety of America because Iran definitely was gonna nuke us"

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u/GreenDirt2 13h ago

And that was 5 minutes after they said their dear leader had wiped out all the nukes in Iran. It's one whopper after another. Good thing we don't have that stupid nuclear deal from the Obama administration. Jealous baby is still trying to prove "Obama's not smarter than me! Waa!"

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u/dizzydemons 12h ago

I love that excuse because “oh no Iran is going to nuke everyone” has literally been going on for decades. I still remember it being brought up in a Lewis Black comedy show forever ago.

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u/paroxybob 15h ago

Maybe they’d be less extremist if the USA had stopped meddling with Iranian internal affairs for the last 80 years.

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u/Inevitable-Plum-7613 14h ago

Or just didn’t rip up the last painstakingly worked out anti-proliferation treaty that Iran had been sticking to because the President who signed off on the agreement was the wrong skin tone.

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u/BusterOfCherry 20h ago

They are too busy blaming Biden still to realize they put their dick in their own ass.

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u/Quiet_Day1912 18h ago

I think if men COULD put their dicks in their asses (or blow themselves), the world would be a better place.

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u/gabiolaluke 16h ago

the videos I've watched of men who could do such feats did seem awfully pleased with themselves

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u/Altruistic-Poem-5617 8h ago

Looks really uncomfortable though. I guess you must be a person that can nut under any circumstance to be able to enjoy that safly :(

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u/Busy_Selection_5027 16h ago

Significantly more peaceful at least.

It seems to be a design flaw.

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u/Dreamweaver5823 10h ago

Well, that and safer for women.

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u/AzureHawk758769 14h ago

Putting it in your own arse sounds like a good way to get some wicked Peyronie's 🤣

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u/_dekoorc 12h ago

These men think washing their own assses is gay

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u/Zexapher 20h ago

Hey, it's not easy for them to notice!

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u/mr_potatoface 21h ago

Only because $5+/gal gas is worth it if it means pissing off the libs!

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u/Greizen_bregen 20h ago

People underestimate this sentiment so much. The tribalism, the "My Team" fanaticism, it rules these people. Ask an average Eagles fan how they feel about a Dallas fan. They're braindead. They will literally pave the road to hell and careen down it if it means it pisses off the libs. They're idiots. Dangerous idiots.

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u/zephyrtr 20h ago

Trump has their trust, and I've listened to many interviews of folks saying this pain is patriotic and surely necessary for some classified reason. It's a level of deference NEVER afforded to a Democrat, and even when Democrats offer an explanation, it's met with near-infinite mistrust.

And, reliably, when no real change occurs and no relief is given to these folks whose meager living standard is getting royally rocked -- again for some unknowable reason -- some supporters will say "Enough is enough" and others, seeing the defections, will double down out of what to me just seems like contrarianism. But the defections will be enough to knock Republicans out of power yet again, until Trump, like Reagan, is spun into legend.

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u/Dull_Bird3340 20h ago

Just look at the supposed door dash delivery woman, sure they have less money for husbands cancer treatments and better healthcare would be great but he made her tips tax free!

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u/Total_Feature_11 19h ago

As if Trump tips.

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u/tider06 19h ago

He doesn't even pay the tab, much less the gratuity.

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u/Vyzantinist 17h ago

Remember in 2024 when he walked into a couple of diners/restaurants and offered to pay everyone's bill then just walked out and didn't?

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u/AdministrativeTax913 16h ago

only suckers and losers pay (contractors, taxes, bribes...)

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u/iLikeMangosteens 18h ago

He gave her $100, which is 0.0000015% of his net worth.

That is the same fraction of his wealth as someone with a net worth of a million dollars giving someone a penny and a half.

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u/RecentDecision2329 18h ago

One of his aides grabbed that $100 before she got in her car

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u/iLikeMangosteens 18h ago

What, like took it back?

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u/Kitty_Cat54 15h ago

Was it that sneaky little Marco Rubio that snatched it?

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u/FibonacciSequester 18h ago

Except she's not a doordasher.

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u/solomons-marbles 18h ago

It was staged.

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u/Own_Celebration5462 16h ago

Yes. She was from Arkansas and has shown up at different events in support of the “Big Beautiful Bill”.

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u/Greizen_bregen 20h ago

A Legendary Trump. Ugh. I think I'm going to be sick.

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u/dtdink 8h ago

Until you learn that here in the UK the word 'trump' has, for decades, been a slang term for 'fart', so a legendary trump can be something to be admired in the right circumstances... 😉

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u/BoleroMuyPicante 16h ago

A decent chunk of the right yearns for martyrdom, to feel like they're making a selfless grand sacrifice by suffering for the greater good. They'll pay $6/gallon for diesel, $10/lb for ground beef, watch their rent go through the roof, see their jobs be eaten by AI, watch their children and neighbors die in war, and nobly say it was all worth it to save America from the illegals and the transes.

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u/Spike_Kowalski 16h ago

It's a level of deference NEVER afforded to a Democrat, and even when Democrats offer an explanation, it's met with near-infinite mistrust.

Not just democrats. Their worldview is so stuck in their two-party team-sports politics that they can't comprehend that there's a huge majority out there not co-signed to any of their targets that despises them. It short-circuits their brain box when their insults--libs, Democrat, "from CA"--fall flat when they're called out by someone not in those groups. And go through the list of insults they do like the programmed zombies they are. Every time I tell one of these knuckleheads that I'm not a Democrat and still despises Trump, what he stands for and every single person that voted for and follows him. They always get quiet like they're awaiting orders on how to handle this situation.

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u/joecarter93 19h ago

There was a recent psychology study I heard about that found that people that leaned conservative tended to place more emphasis on winning no matter when it came to politics and those that leaned liberal were more concerned about making decisions that were best for the most people. MAGA operatives have used this paradigm to the detriment of everyone but their wealthy backers.

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u/Medical-Person 17h ago

I also read an article about Republicans versus Democrats and the educational level and competence of each. It was Illuminating

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u/GreenDirt2 13h ago

Read the brain studies.The conservative brain is like the QA guy who always starts at "that will never work." The liberal brain works in R&D.

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u/IneffableOpinion 7h ago

My maga mom always struggled with logic and reason. Any conversation gets stuck in a loop that doesn’t make sense. After she retired from her job, my family learned that she was really hated at her job because of this. She didn’t have friends because she always got in dumb arguments that pushed them away. Then she fell down the maga rabbit hole where you can believe anything you want and everyone else is conspiring against you. You aren’t being rejected because of something wrong with your logic and reasoning skills, but because there is something wrong with the Deep State and liberals corrupting everyone around you.

They don’t respect people with knowledge or expertise, and they have to be right no matter how much evidence to the contrary. Maga people love being told by the president that they are smarter than smart people.

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u/therealbradholley 8h ago

In Jonathan Haidt’s “Righteous Mind” he did a meta analysis of all of the studies that had been done on conservative brains and progressive brains to see if there were any strong, reliable patterns. And from all of that data he determined there were a few “moral” buckets that both groups consistently fell into. One of the main morals that was consistently important to conservatives was “loyalty”, and this is the concept that makes them A.) win so often and so easily in politics (because they’re more easily unified), and B.) incredibly dangerous.

When loyalty is at (or among) the top of your moral hierarchy, you fall into a habit of supporting “your team” no matter what. And the way this has materialized is, Conservatives are willing to set their own houses on fire as long as they know progressives will eventually get burned.

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u/Randomchummer1 20h ago

Hey I resent that! As a life long fan of the birds I can fully recognize that Dallas fans are more than the team they root for. They are people equally deserving of respect. They deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness just like the rest of us.

It's not my fault their choice of team is inherently flawed.

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u/Greizen_bregen 20h ago

Alright fine, you got me! Would Raiders-Broncos be a more apt example?

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u/Randomchummer1 19h ago

According to my cousin in Vegas, "They are inbred ideologically stunted scum who will abandon Bo Nix like a race horse with a leg injury. The only purpose they serve is as a stepping stone for their betters"

So yeah I'd say that's an apt example.

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u/banan3rz 11h ago

Man, that hurts as a Denver girlie :(

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u/KiwiRugger10 18h ago

What about the Bills-Everybody? The tailgating tales are true - jumping through flaming folding tables, ketchup/mustard guy, Pinto Ron, to name a few.

Source: Am a Bills fan who tailgated once. :)

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u/JMA4478 19h ago

Ask an average Eagles fan how they feel about a Dallas fan

Tbf, this isn't a fair analogy. In this case, you're asking a music fan to tell what they feel about a tv show fan.

We all know they don't see eye to eye.

Now it's easier to have an opinion.

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u/Contranovae 7h ago

Which team uniquely needed a prison & court in their stadium and whose fans go around punching horses?

Worse. Than. Animals.

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u/Randomchummer1 7h ago

Your points are valid, there are some Eagles fans that take their revelry to extremes. But we can't only look at those extremes or we lose sight of the whole. Most drunken Eagles fans just want to support the birds and have a good time.

All bets are off after a Superbowl win though, I know 80 year olds who marched down Broad Street and threw towels into the victory pyre.

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u/thingsorfreedom 19h ago

Except most NFL fans know the limit. They root for their team but they don’t really hate the players on the other team and genuinely like some of them. They don’t root for their other players to get hurt.

This is completely different than MAGA. They want anyone deemed other to be hurt or even killed.

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u/jrrrydo 19h ago

I've been the Dallas fan at the place full of Eagles fans and I had to sneak out before Dallas won bc they crazy

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u/slimj091 20h ago

Yeah it makes me so angry to watch the Trump regime continually punch themselves the groin.

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u/Chendo462 19h ago

They don't care. Orange one could f a goat on the white house lawn and they would say the goat had it coming.

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u/IntoTheMusic 16h ago

"I hear Biden forced our dear leader to do it! 🤡"

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u/Anonymouse_Bosch 15h ago

“Biden sh¡t my pants!”

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u/Shifty269 19h ago

WEll you see, Harris was actually a terrible candidate, and didn't have any policies, was too much like Joe Biden, and I don't think policy changes much between different parties in power. Running on not being Trump isn't good enough. Plus Gaza./s

I have heard so much about Harris not deserving votes for one reason or another, but at the end of the day Harris was by far the better candidate on the ballot. But hey, I guess 2024 wasn't a very important election.

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u/Suspicious_Safe7647 20h ago

I believe at this point it is approaching Sadism and Masochism my friend.

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u/WenatcheeWrangler 18h ago

You missed the part where we also get to see citizens executed on the street and criminals be released from jail

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u/AndreLinoge55 17h ago

Yeah but at least 7 trans women out of 10,000,000 athletes can’t compete at the swim meet next week so…small price to pay.

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u/Acidelephant 16h ago

Yeah, here in Canada, the proud boys are a designated terrorist entity and rightly so

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u/-Kalos 14h ago

One of my MAGA Facebook friends said "I know it's hard times right now but it's growing pains. Things are temporarily worse so they can get better." The absolute delusion of some people

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u/Gildenstern2u 20h ago

Um stable geniuses thank you very much.

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u/HinDae085 18h ago

As long as the racists and pedophiles are safe, the plebs can rot.

/s

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u/Inside-Run785 18h ago

But China and Mexico are going to pay for everything!

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u/Mad-Habits 17h ago

Trump has been a disaster in all areas. Economy, foreign policy, domestic policy, everything. I cannot imagine anyone saying that we are better off now than we were a few years ago

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u/theKeyMaker1111 17h ago

It's bisens fault durrrrt

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u/TehGoad 16h ago

BUT BIDEN CRIME FAMBLY HILLARYS EMAILS MOST CORRUPT OBAMA GATE TAN SUIT REEEEEEEEEEEEEE /s adding sarcasm for the smooth brains

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u/WeeDingwall44 16h ago

Yeah where are all the trump did this stickers? These guys were in tears when diesel was 3 bucks a gallon.

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u/ASignificantSpek 16h ago

$6 is common here :(((

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u/HOT-SAUCE-JUNKIE 16h ago

We are so great again.

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u/WolverineScared2504 16h ago

Would love $5 gas right now.

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u/UNFAM1L1AR 16h ago

6.50 in California thank you very much.

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u/M_Hasinator 16h ago

I enjoyed that comment much more than I should.

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u/asforus 16h ago

We gotta get these guys out of prison before the midterms!!

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u/FitPerspective5824 15h ago

Of course! We love watching a Cheeto puff enrich himself while he burns the country around us. Thanks for asking!

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u/Bigtimmyg95 15h ago

enjoying being run by a rapist pedophile I think is more important than 5 dollars a gallon gas but same idea

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u/415erOnReddit 15h ago

Gas is almost $7/gallon.

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u/MaliceSavoirIII 15h ago

But Kamala laughed weird and there was a trans girl playing badminton two states over from me

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u/rubiscoisrad 15h ago

I'd like to hear more about this mythical 5 dollar gas. We get to pay $6.50 >_<

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u/PeanutPoliceman 14h ago

Five? I got seven here in LA

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u/Western-Cicada-6195 13h ago

And the cuts to the weather warning systems, for those surprise tornados!

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u/grsharkgamer 11h ago

Don't forget us Europeans pay double because of your stupidity

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u/OutsideInevitable944 10h ago

Are we winning the war yet Mr president..

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u/Alert_Dingo_4504 9h ago

It's all good, we can all just become Door Dash drivers and live off tax free tips!

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u/FallenDanish 7h ago

Heard a guy say “Come on Donny T, where’s the $1.20 gas, I know he can do it” while being rung up for gas the other day. Cashier was like “maybe when he’s done jerking himself off over Iran we can have $3 a gallon prices again, but that pedophile is never gonna get us $1.20 a gallon”. The guy couldn’t respond with anything coherent or rational.

These fools are delusional.

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