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DFW

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13. Careful

Reply to MichMan (Reply #6)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 03:20 AM

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There will be people who think that all that Mamdani clones around the country have to do is snap their fingers and it will be so. The “everything-is-free-in Europe” crowd does not take contradiction lightly.

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