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Justice matters.

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21. Richest 0.00001% of the population that literally BUYS pols.

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Sun Dec 7, 2025, 12:32 AM

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The poverty of close to half of the population barely living from paycheck to paycheck, and on credit cards for the rest, is not "the richest country in the world" at all...

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