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alterfurz

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9. "Power concedes nothing without a demand...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 05:40 AM

Dec 30

...It never did and it never will...find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." -- Frederick Douglass

"Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached." -- Kafka

In their defense, you can't say that the current incarnation of the 1% aren't doing everything in their power to help the peasants find out their Douglass limit, and reach that Kafkaesque point!