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Britain is Losing its Free Speech, and America Could be Next
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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I think the US will be fine as long as we don't repeatedly elect some kind of cabal of pedophile authoritarians.
You mean the Republican party? At this point I'm convinced their voter based would elect a serial killer so long as they said they were Republican.
I mean they re-elected Bush so.
Yes that's the joke lol
It's just very unnecessary when you're repeating the joke
Well if you check other replies, others clearly don't agree that this only applies to Republicans.
It doesn't change the intent of the joke
It's a YUGE stretch to assume there were no democrats in the Epstein files.
Maybe, but they aren't nearly as authoritarian.
Yes they are.
You've just been duped into thinking they're not.
Which has set up concentration camps and is kidnapping and "deporting" citizens to a foreign prison?
Ted Cruz
Irony is truly lost on this platform
I feel like that was the entire intent of the comment you are replying to
It definitely was, please see my other comment below somewheres
why do you say that? seems like a pretty ironic thing to say. found it!
I think it was being downvoted or something, or maybe I just anticipated people not picking up the invisible /s. No clue at this point, I had some beer demons in me last night