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bucolic_frolic

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1. An inverted form of woke turning freedom on its head

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Thu May 7, 2026, 06:35 AM

Yesterday

The Pilgrims came to the continent for the right to think, worship, believe as they wished. Quakers and a slew of religious Dissenters too.

Now a new form of oppression.

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