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pampango

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13. I agree about how conservatives/corporatists operate. My point is that they can do that

Reply to Octafish (Reply #12)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 04:19 PM

Feb 2015

they have proven they can wield their power within national boundaries or outside of them.

I would phrase it that our enemy is the corporatists not the globalists. Corporatists who solely within our borders (which has often been the case in our history) are just as evil as modern ones who operate internationally.

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