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druidity33

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19. It's an academic argument...

Reply to Rob H. (Reply #18)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 01:04 PM

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and has no place in the hearts of thinking feeling people. If you have to dance around definitions and quibble and loudly protest because you are THAT CLOSE to genocide, but you're not quite there............. that's not a good look.

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