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moondust

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39. Control freaks.

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 03:31 PM

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Slavers were control freaks. Ya think their control freak mindset and way of raising white male children to be the next generation of control freaks disappeared with the abolition of slavery?

They've probably been bitterly watching many women and minorities rise to high positions and doing well there since the 60s-70s, and when there was finally a woman candidate for President in 2016--right after the black guy--they said ENOUGH!!! BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!! WE OWN THIS PLACE!!! (Remember the "ownership society"?)

They got a "famous" racist/misogynist/criminal WWE thug to represent them and they went all in.

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