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44. I'm not sure they're worse.

Reply to soldierant (Reply #43)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:17 PM

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The Puritans were really bad. I think it's just come full circle. That particularly American to stealing from the poor and one's neighbors and cloaking it in Christianity.

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