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RockCreek

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7. I think very few people believed that we would ever be where we are today.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 5, 2025, 07:10 AM

Mar 2025

I certainly didn't. I love dystopian novels, but this plot line is so put there I don't think I would have bothered to read a novel based on this reality. I would have thought it too improbable, hallucinatory even.

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Fuck yeah. Now this is how you do it. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #1

Thanks! And welcome to DU! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2025 #2

Glad to be here. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #3

Not only that, but it's the safest place to be during these perilous times Rhiannon12866 Mar 2025 #4

I only found it in 2017 RockCreek Mar 2025 #5

I know, I was devastated when George W. Bush* won in 2004, I felt sick for a week Rhiannon12866 Mar 2025 #6

I think very few people believed that we would ever be where we are today. RockCreek Mar 2025 #7

I sure agree. I still have trouble believing it. Rhiannon12866 Mar 2025 #8

I am so glad that my grandparents didn't live to see this. RockCreek Mar 2025 #9

Same here. My grandfather and his closest brother volunteered to serve. Rhiannon12866 Mar 2025 #10