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GiqueCee

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7. It's pretty obvious...

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 01:18 PM

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... that all this performative belligerence is intended to provoke people past the point of reasonable tolerance, and make them react as might be expected when people are pushed to their limits. Then the Orange Hellbeast can declare martial law, and become the malicious dictator he's always dreamed of being. Malice is his defining character flaw, BIGLY.
Those dots connect themselves.

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