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Igel

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20. Apparently so.

Reply to MichMan (Reply #19)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 01:54 AM

10 hrs ago

If the law doesn't side side with the masses, then, in a democracy of laws and not men/mobs, well, the mobs rule and democracy must be as the founders feared--rule of mobs.

That's bad. But the strange fruit of society that some, apparently, want.

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