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[Video] 'Late Stage Capitalism': Microsoft as an Elaborate Ponzi Scheme (Faking 'Demand' While Portraying the Fraud as an Act of Generosity and Demanding Bailouts)

[Meme] Free Society Requires Free Press

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 15, 2024

The Assange decision is now less than a week away (after several delays and demand for shallow 'assurances')

They said I hurt their feelings and violated their privacy; By exposing bad things they had done

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