Comments by "john" (@Pistolita221) on "Task & Purpose" channel.

  1. GRU has entered the comment section :p Just to clarify, I don't have to work for the government to not want a hostile foreign power to interfere in my government. I didn't make any geopolitical decisions for the USA, that's always done by a handful of people wherever in the world you are.
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  2.  @Robertsmith001  Lol, Robert Smith is pretty anglophone, bro. IDK what Anglophone country the USA f'ed over. You wouldn't be a hired bot from another country, would you?
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  3.  @Taskandpurpose  i think everyone is glad there's some honest journalists left, willing to report on the most difficult situations. Incredible work, Cappy.
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  4. frfr God save us.
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  5.  @jasonnugent963  raising interest rates makes companies cut workers. They like to have ~3-5% unemployment rate so there's always a pool of desperate labor to suppress wages.
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  6.  @chartreux1532  America is a pretty trustworthy partner to EU/NATO members. Nordstream was an exception to the rule, imo. Pretty obvious who has the ability and motive, but if that's all that's happened in 80 years then things seem to be pretty good, better than the Philippines and Mexico for sure, not better than Taiwan, though. imo, NATO members cozying up via trade to Russia while they are a dictatorship is an obvious mistake, and I don't blame the senior partner for correcting it (I hope that's not offensive, I appreciate our partnership, and I don't want to see allies suffer for anything, but strategy and sovereignty comes first, which a close relationship with Putin jeopardizes).
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  7. They own blocks in michigan as legitimate businessmen.
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  8.  @aleksandrs1422  Yes, Turkeye is a dictatorship Israel has a better reason to suspend their elections as long as it's temporary (TBD), as does Ukraine, obviously (much better reasons than Israel) Israel commits a lot of human rights violations, none of them are genocide, though. IDK enough about Hungary to know if they're a dictatorship. It's not a knock against the citizenry, it's an adjective to describe a nations government, not the people who live there. The USA (my country) is struggling to keep a dictator out of office right now. China our enemy and the Saudi's our quasi-allies are also dictatorships. There's been a resurgence in authoritarianism recently, I think technology created opportunities for authoritarianism creep into democracies. I consider the monarchs of Europe to be quasi-dictatorships or having authoritarian/dictatorial power since they usually have their own intelligence agencies/secret societies that function like agencies. That doesn't mean they people who live in those nations are evil, and they're not bad people for supporting their government, either. But do you really want me to believe that Putin, who assassinates his personal enemies, consolidated power for decades, and manipulates election results is not a dictator? Eh. It's not your fault the international community helped install authoritarians from the KGB to lead the new Russian federation, it's more Bush senior's fault, than most anyone else. Nothing was meant as a personal attack against you or the Russian peoples of the world, just trying to have a conversation about geopolitics.
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  9. It depends on where in Europe you are. And it depends on where you are in the USA
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  10. High end organized crime typically seeks employment at those kinds of places, so probably more than whatever you suspected.
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  11. I got a ridge wallet 3 years ago, I was initially worried about the elastic's longevity, but I haven't had to replace it yet.
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  12. It's really decent of you to honor the soldiers at the end. Fubar and Grill is TOP TIER branding!
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  13. the most in depth ukraine coverage is Perun, hour long videos about opensource data and estimations as to how accurate they are. He's even gotten a general on before, to talk shop.
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  14. It's never been publicly acknowledged they built 'Star Wars' but IK they built it, too. To zap ICBM's in orbit, and damage recon platforms like radar, telescopes, etc.
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  15. shout out to the socialists in the thread!
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  16. The Taliban is not as similar to other non-state-actors as you might imagine.
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  17. If you played Ghost Recon Wildlands you'd have heard about this 7 years ago. El Cerebro, the one that got away... $#!†balls.
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  18.  @aleksandrs1422  That is an important distinction, between a tyrant and a dictatorship, that is especially lacking in the west; El Salvador has raised the question to a few here, though. I agree with you about Israel, completely. Their aggression is going to put the only Jewish state in existential danger, because Syria and Lebanon will use swarm attacks to wear down defense before they send in the real damage. I think Israel will survive regardless, but it will be a painful lesson to the Israeli people that these wars are on their border, not half a world away like Iraq was to the USA, and also unhelpful in Israel building relations with their neighbors. I think, because of the Russian disinformation that has hurt Western democracies (which survive on unbiased information to elect quality representatives), all Democracies have to treat russia (the government) as an adversary to some degree, at the very least keeping a close eye on the media and especially the internet. Not a hot war, more like the cold war. If we can keep Russian influence out, they'll feel less confident in taking any sort of military action, which will hopefully prevent wars and be even more peaceful than the cold war, with upwards of 80% legitimate targets being seized/removed, since it'll be server rooms getting raided not vietnam being invaded. Much, much better than any previous conflict, but it will be difficult for democracies to deal with, because companies want to make money, regardless of where it comes from, and dictatorships have absolute control so they can easily censor our disinformation, or easier than we can censor theirs. It's the biggest advantage to authoritarianism especially in todays world, imo. If Russia were to not interfere in western elections, then there's no reason the NATO nations and the Russian Federation can't be friends, but that is not todays situation. I wouldn't be surprised if NATO instigated it, but regardless this is where we are, sadly.
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  19. "we need to keep unemployment higher to manage consumer demand" -fed reserve chair, Jerome Powell
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  20. ​ @organicwest disappointed more people didn't upvote this. Us oxy epidemic funded French museums
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  21. CAPPY BROKE 1 MILLION!!!!
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  22.  @musek5048  The cartel's are CIA assets (as are ALL organized criminal enterprises from police gangs to MC's to mafias to street gangs), do you think the suites actually get dirty in the powder, risking their agencies PR during the age of BLM? They use proxies, it saves face and is a great excuse to erode privacy rights and build a police state.
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  23. I love the LMG's in Ghost Recon Wildlands.
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  24. hypersonic missile defense, lasers are literally the only option. Maybe a railgun, but by the time it locks it might be too slow. Lasers are the best option, they also can damage EM surveillance equipment even beyond deadly range for FO cover and could probably replace the laser with maybe even a railgun if they can the pulse discharge of energy. Railguns are OP. Artillery with the KE of of a medium-small sized plastic, with the range of a medium range missile (100 miles).
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  25. Based, the takeaway is realpolitik and nationalism, or at the very least patriotism, imo.
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  26. We don't know yet, hopefully he's like Washington, and not like pretty much everyone else. Can you believe how lucky we got with Washington? Absolutely insane odds. People like him are as rare as prophets.
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  27.  @SusCalvin  The taliban is a different sect of extremist islam, a less extreme version. They're also more interested in holding land than they are in armed conflict, something more western (middle east) NSA's aren't as interested in. They're also on more favorable terrain than Western NSA's, and more favorable geopolitically favorable neighbors. I wanna say Task and Purpose or William Spaniel has a video on it.
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  28. Actually, if you look at organized crime as criminal enterprises, then the best way to combat the black market is to make a legal market that out-competes them. It worked for alcohol, why would any other drug be any different?
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  29.  @Destroyer_V0  That's a racist troll not an actual indian, they want you to go off about how dirty india is to contradict the 'obnoxious nationalism' and get people more used to calling indians and other brown people from generally allied nations dirty/uncivilized. Don't feed the troll, call them a troll.
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  30. He needs to pull a George Washington and set a term limit to enshrine democracy as his governments mythic founding and tradition, in stead of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism works well in a pinch, but it isn't a long term strategy for growth and success.
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  31. Tell your superior they need to get better about censoring media figures, up the Google stock holdings, or the bribes to the health and safety team cause this could be a GRUsome's undoing.
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  32. *in russian* thumbs up to russia
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  33. That's a good question. Possibly, if the US and Taliban have more-or-less stable lines and the fighting has declined, it's in the oppositions interest to not pick a fight, sometimes. It also encourages bolder actions, since there's material gain to success, even small scale success. That's the same reason south-Lebanon's regional Non-State-Actor rarely picks a fight with Israel, and is generally eager to sign a peace agreement compared to Palestinian NSA's. The Afgan NSA is more interested in (theocratic) governance than they are in losing soldiers, which other forces (usually in Iraq) don't care as much about, for their own specific regional reasons.
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  34. Don't hate the player hate the game.
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  35.  @riotbreaker3506  You kidding? The war on drugs was a RAGING success. They broke up POC community networks, they broke up hippy networks, they kept the poison in the hoods they wanted to suffer, and they stripped tens of millions of people of their right to vote. The people signing the bills made out like bandits with their intelligence buddies, and the Sacklers even made enough to get a wing of the nicest art museum in Paris named after them. It's a failure if you think they wanted to help us, but if you look at their wallets the war on drugs was a raging success. It's only not working out perfectly because the chinese are trying to get the cartels unhooked from american financial institutions.
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  36. And now the whole world is blind, it would seem.
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  37.  @captainnutt2995  Lujan wants YOU... to work for Uncle Sam!
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  38. direct energy would be more specific in a way. We should use the acronym DEW, Direct(ed) Energy Weapon, Directed Electromagnetic Waves/Weapon, either way it's pronounced dew.
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  39. Isn't most organized crime in latin america funded by the US/Northern markets? If the north legalized, taxed and regulated these substances the violent criminals would be forced to shut down due to lack of funding, making your governments much more capable of dealing with the issues. The US Fed has really not been a friend to latin american nations.
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  40. weren't there literally italian mobsters on the CIA's payroll in the 1950's and 60's? it's not the police organizing inter-state/multinational rackets. Hasn't the USA been caught working with cartel's before? The rot is deep, deep in the USA. What would an intelligence agencies first goal be upon its creation? To ensure its continuation by seizing the seat of power in the nation. Erode education, pump in drugs, diminish trust in institutions. Their strategies work best in destabilized and desperate communities, they don't want to hold power in name, they were built to exist in the shadows.
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  41. @8:36 they say they're using EOIR already.
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  42.  @lukebable  I'm pretty sure there's a 0% chance they don't already have some form of EM ID to deconflict friendlies on all airborne craft. They may have a IR code they flash, or some other EM frequency, or maybe a variety of rotating frequencies across the whole network (to make duplication that much more difficult) but the USA loves adding tech to stuff, sometimes even when it's not necessary.
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  43.  @indiasuperclean6969  You may as well name yourself anti-semitic troll if you're going to be this obvious.
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  44. Directed Energy Weapon acronym, dew. You don't have to keep saying "directed energy weapon" D.E.W. is a very smooth way of initializing it.
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  45.  @indiasuperclean6969  lmao, committed to the bit.
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  46.  @indiasuperclean6969  get a new shtick.
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  47.  @Nexalian_Gamer  lol
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  48.  @noncog1  For the laser systems providers, to get grass roots support for funding a new weapons system that could become a standard part of FO/general defense. And the army is DESPERATE for recruits, and claiming that they won't be droned ever again/highlighting the cool toys you get to play with is a more powerful marketing gimmick than you might expect. Is it like.. news to you the military is trying new recruitment techniques? Have you not seen the military E-girl craze on the internet? You thought that was organic?
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  49.  @noncog1  Whoops, I assumed you didn't think they were advertising. But my other reply does somewhat answer a question you asked.
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  50. If you think about it, there is no market with less government regulation than illegal smuggling. No embargos, tariffs, duties, standards, regulations at all, not even a court to settle disputes, just free agents operating within the confines of the markets demand. Legalize, tax and regulate these substances and the organized violence will disappear while adding tax revenue.
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  51.  @mutum1  It's a racist trolling, trying to get normies to call indians dirty and uneducated. Pretty pathetic that some guy in their basement is this upset about india existing (especially because they're an ally).
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  52. I'm glad you had a conclusion and it was the same conclusion as the people of Ukraine! Brings a new meaning to the term Spare Parts Army. Great work, Cappy. More importantly than doing right by the audience, I think you did right by the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian occupied Russian people.
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  53. duterte's son was caught with half a ton of drugs, he was not fighting the cartel he was the cartel.
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  54. yeah, the arrests are definitely a part of the solution but it's not the end of the saga. The story didn't end with a nice little bow wrapped ontop, the US demand still exists.
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  55. russian arms dealers deplete russias armament stockpile, bout hurts the russian military.
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  56. lol, i can tell he's probably not republican, too. I'm here for it, though. you basically can't find decent news coverage from right wing outlets, it's pretty much just rage bait, no geopolitical analysis or examination of potential unintended consequences, they're all boots on the ground everywhere all the time and that's not helpful for anyone. Bombs don't increase production, they reduce it.
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  57. What about the IDF soldiers who shoots kids for throwing rocks? What about the 62 attacks on medical facilities in Gaza since the 7th? What about the west bank which isn't controlled by Hamas but still gets bombed and shot up just the same? We could go on and on about what both sides have done but unless you want a Holocaust and expect the world to stand by or support it, you're just trying to make the situation worse for everyone.
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  58. Yup, is the USA going to keep 2 strike groups there the entire time to ensure Israel can do this with impunity? IDK, seems a bit excessive.
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  59. The fed (as a bipartisan entity) wants more cartel and crime in general for numerous reasons. Keeps us busy looking at each other, drives up the number of meatheads willing to do whatever for a dollar, and increases ALL smuggling.
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  60. cause the fed had contracts with them, obviously.
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  61. Dictators make ridiculous projects to impress the international community all the time, actually. It's very in line with most dictatorships that can afford that sort of project. You see it in the Arab dictatorships, like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, you see it in China with their city building spree's. You see it in European dictatorships, too. They usually enslave locals to build the projects, though.
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  62. It's not JUST the CIA, the USA has something like 18 acknowledged intelligence agencies, but like Delta Force there are probably others that aren't officially acknowledged.
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  63. lmfao, too true.
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  64. Can't drones be equipped with Lidar? They should be able to sight APC's.
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  65. ​ @paulanthonynelson2733 he means pull out of all these other countries. Australia has reasons to trade with the USA, I could see US electrical components being made/ore processed in Australia. What business do we have in Afghanistan? Or chili? Or Somalia? Or Liberia? Or the congo? Why are we spending billions making the 3rd world a worse place to be while our sewage system crumbles and ruins our cities with the stench, and poisons the water? Why send our people and machines to be shot at for nothing when our healthcare and literacy rates are the worst in the developed world and falling behind the developing world? We can work with partners but enough with this stupid 'nation building' they don't want us and we don't want them.
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  66. I'm pretty confident that the latin american drug trade is mostly just a pipeline to supply the US and other northern nations demand, we need to legalize tax and regulate these industries, which is what they are.
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  67.  @aleksandrs1422  To my knowledge, the NATO intelligence services haven't been big on declassifying anything since the fall of the USSR. The USA declassifies things as the geopolitical chapter closes, and a new one opens. If the Russia-China stuff takes more than 3 decades to come to a close, it's possible this stuff might not come out for much more than 30 years. I think a majority of Americans distrust the official story on some older conspiracies, but they're still very much not acknowledged by the fed. Even Kennedy is still is a stupid grey-zone, 60 years later. But that's to protect the federal reserve bank, so it'll probably never come out since that motive/means is too central to be the official record. From my understanding, Russia's disinformation campaign began by riding the coattails of NATO member disinformation campaigns (drum up division amongst the working class to enable the wealth disparity to grow), and spread to include anti-american propaganda which dovetails well with the USA's own disinformation campaigns targeted at leftist circles. And what's so disappointing is the US intelligence is still unwilling to change tact with information releases, even when they know hostile foreign powers will use this against us. There's a revival of respect for the public coming, but it's slow and there are some very entrenched morons in US services. The USA may lose the information war because we're more committed to lying than sovereignty or the constitution. God bless! Happy to hear Russians are still getting some decent information even if they can't really act on it.
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  68. US criminals charge liquor stores rent, too. Unless the local boss owns the store. The USA's crime is very different from crime in El Salvador. The El Salvadorans were a transit point, they weren't serving a domestic market. The USA is less of a transit hub and more of a domestic market, meaning that there is innate demand that will be satisfied. Smuggling is big business for US clients, so someone will satisfy the demand, the prices will just have to get high enough that it's worth the hassle, and foreign enterprises could try to fill the gap. Also, the US was caught working with cartel's before, I imagine the grand planners understand that control is less absolute than we'd like to imagine and working with the industry leaders allows you to manage the market indirectly, I have a hard time imagining some unelected feds wouldn't put their hand in that pot. It also makes good training for multiple types of work, like recon and seizures when there's a player on the field not already in your pocket. Not sure how applicable El Salvador's model is for the USA, unfortunately.
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  69. not surprising.
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  70.  @aleksandrs1422  I agree the USA's deep state is horrific, and I do like the constitution a lot, but IDK if I can work with the right wing as they are today. J6th, whether the participants knew it or not, was an attempt to overthrow the government, opinions don't matter once they take action. I wish they were willing to accept that both political parties work with the deep state in the USA, but they don't, it's "only democrats, and trump would save us". imo, Qanon was an intentional psyop by the trump administration to help keep trump in power. It was backed by others in the deep state, but Trump is friends with the most politically involved billionaires in the USA, he just shifts blame to the democrats and people eat it up because no one knows the truth anyways, so any explanation is more believable than "this is normal, don't worry about it". I do agree that the left and the right SHOULD be friends, the left calls us the proletariat, the right calls us working americans. The right calls them globalists, the left calls them bourgeoise. But the right wing has all the wrong answers, usually. The left is at least generally in the right direction, but IDK how much you know about either sides politics. MAGA is insane, and Trump has worked with the Russian mob since the 90's, I imagine (and correct me if I'm wrong) Russian media has good things to say about Trump and bad things to say about his opposition, generally.
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  71. az-ur-bi-jon.
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  72. True, we're definitely not going off a historical example of this ending horribly like Augusto Pinochet's Chili, where they destroyed the cartel and then enforced a horrific military dictatorship for decades, which killed significantly more people than the Cartel's ever dreamed of in Argentina.
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  73. It's like 5k a kg, right?
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  74. Satellite defense for ICBM's seems like a decent idea, since the ICBM's will be outside of atmosphere, the lasers would have significantly improved range.
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  75. GI: I like to look stylish when I war! Colonel: Wow, aren't you needy! lmfao, dead!
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  76. I have a ridge wallet, it's great,
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  77.  @revj7397  they ship drugs to Europe via container ships and trucks. Largest weed farm ever busted employed an Albanian village.
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  78.  @DennisMartinezCalifornia  So the lefty thing to do is support Russian oligarchs plots against America? I hope you're a bot, otherwise IDK how you haven't had an accident with logic like that.
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