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17. Welcome to DU

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Wed Dec 10, 2025, 04:42 PM

Dec 10

People with better sight than mine will have to show you which windmills to tilt at, but it's a friendly bunch and you sound like you'll fit in fine as we face seemingly insurmountable odds as the billionaires attempt to turn us into one of Russia's vassal states so they can get richer.

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