• Makan
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    Exactly. Not even money can protect you.

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
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    Democracy: Noun( concept), etymology=Greek, Dēmokratía, Definition = When you have enough money to avoid consequences for things that you would otherwise have been punished for.

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    Oh how I wish my home country of long ago (Pakistan) did this. It’s a corrupt military dictatorship with the type of totalitarian oppression that libs love complaining about but since it’s a capitalist ally that does its dirty work in the region, all is fine.

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    And yet they’ll turn around and cry about the rich circumventing their so called constitution and saving the corrupt and powerful in their freedom loving democratic countries.

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    I know this is unrelated to the original post, but the movement of ideas across oceans is a beautiful thing.