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Maeve

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27. Actually, he DOES mean "spread democracy at the point of a gun"

Reply to Pototan (Original post)

Sun May 25, 2025, 10:33 PM

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It's his understanding of forcing freedom on the rest of the world. NOT opening the world to freedom, NOT stopping oppression; we're right and GODDAMMIT EVERYONE WILL DO IT OUR WAY!!
He never did get subtleties

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