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PatSeg

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7. Exactly

Reply to MustLoveBeagles (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 07:28 PM

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We've had these sort of men for a very long time. They like to play wargames as long as they or their families don't have any skin in the game.

They treat the world like a boardgame and soldiers are just pawns and slaughtered civilians are viewed as collateral damage. They play God with other people's lives as if they are somehow superior to all the mere mortals.

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