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ananda

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18. But I think they do care about how it looks...

Reply to Harker (Reply #17)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 02:20 PM

Wednesday

from a government and legal policy angle.

The optics on this are going to be so bad, that's why...

... even if they plan to circumvent every single safeguard
and legality written in the oath they have taken.

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