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What makes the tech industry so liberal?

Is it because the people in the industry are disconnected fr...
30-something sitting in a Pizza Hut reminiscing
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liberalism is merely the strong arm of the neoliberal establ...
ORANGE BOOMER BAD
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Stem is hard, and if you're a good looking Chad there are mu...
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do you know tech lead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi...
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'Liberal' in the US simply means FASCIST, including, of cour...
setstein
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jocks = trumpmos nerds & geeks = libs the latter ...
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SV used to be a bastion of libertarianism and tech-fascism u...
We live in a clown world and I am a clown girl
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Nothing about tech is inherently liberal, it's just that lib...
community_account
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not true finance is pretty conservative and is still mor...
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Finance is no longer conservative. It is unbelievable GC an...
DrakeMallard
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it is at my shop still infinitely more conservative than ...
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are you living in 1950?
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work on the buyside so no we make fun of libs all the tim...
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small shops can definitely have a more conservative bent ...
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old timers don't stick around and make it more conservative ...
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they're just highly educated. I don't think there's really a...
''"''''"'
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same reason why elite schools are liberal
Duck-like comical business firm dysfunction
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213. Because of their need for rebellion and for membership ...
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why doesn't the ford motor company still distribute the dear...
peeface
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ford was bought by jews "years" ago
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GnosticBatFraudWang
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lolno. The dumber the people in tech the more shrilly shitl...
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Young highly educated people are liberal. Nothing special ab...
Smoker
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Because it is required to only speak shitlib rightthink. The...
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i just checked teamblind. it doesn't seem very liberal ht...
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Blind is 98% FOB
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isn't that like 90% of silicon valley engineers? i would har...
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I agree. I think op must be taking about “white”...
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CR and that's like a fraction of engineers. I guess they're ...
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I also suspect the NOWAG/NOWIG engineers may support Democra...
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"That’s why they don’t cover the 14 dead an...
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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:18 AM
Author: 30-something sitting in a Pizza Hut reminiscing

Is it because the people in the industry are disconnected from reality?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578774)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:20 AM
Author: ORANGE BOOMER BAD

liberalism is merely the strong arm of the neoliberal establishment ....quit using the word--it betrays your ignorance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578779)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:21 AM
Author: community_account

Stem is hard, and if you're a good looking Chad there are much easier paths available, so it selects for ugly people, who have naturally sided with societies' rejects and deviants

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578783)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:38 AM
Author: Username13729278



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578993)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:42 AM
Author: .,.,,..,..,.,.,:,,:,....,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.:,,.




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579011)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 11:00 AM
Author: .,,.,,.,.,,,.....,,,.,.,.,...,.,.




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579399)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:22 AM
Author: .,.,,..,,,..,,.,.,,...,,..,,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,.


do you know tech lead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pizXzR7ZQ8Q

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578786)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:22 AM
Author: setstein

'Liberal' in the US simply means FASCIST, including, of course, the maintenance of corporate cartels.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578789)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:23 AM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,...,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,,,,,,


jocks = trumpmos

nerds & geeks = libs

the latter fills most tech jobs. the former is usually doing hvac repair or some kind of real estate broker agent gig

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578790)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:32 AM
Author: We live in a clown world and I am a clown girl

SV used to be a bastion of libertarianism and tech-fascism until they sold out. Peter Thiel's views used to be representative of the industry rather than an outlier, but that all changed in the dot com bubble when everything started getting more corporate and focused on getting in with legitimate capital/big banks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578799)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:35 AM
Author: community_account

Nothing about tech is inherently liberal, it's just that liberalism will attach itself to any profitable industry and claim it's success as its own

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578800)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:36 AM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,...,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,,,,,,


not true

finance is pretty conservative and is still more profitable than tech. tech is just faster growing and no longer cares about profits in a zero rate world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578801)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:39 AM
Author: DrakeMallard (Just ducking around)

Finance is no longer conservative. It is unbelievable GC and liberal and has been warped by shitlib HR types pushing through AA and responsible investing and green bullshit

To the extent it was ever conservative it was because the marriage of free trade globalism and low taxes espoused by Rs benefitted it greatly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579000)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:27 AM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,...,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,,,,,,


it is at my shop

still infinitely more conservative than tech fags.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579218)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:36 AM
Author: .,.,,..,..,.,.,:,,:,....,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.:,,.


are you living in 1950?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579266)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:42 AM
Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,...,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,,,,,,


work on the buyside so no

we make fun of libs all the time

way better than working at facebook

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579285)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:48 AM
Author: ......;,;.,;,,.,;,.,;,.;;,.,;,..,.,;,.,.;,


small shops can definitely have a more conservative bent

and certainly buyside finance is more conservative than tech. a lot of them might be Mitt Romney types, but they aren't screeching blue-haired pansexuals either

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579325)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:38 AM
Author: ""''''''"

old timers don't stick around and make it more conservative like biglaw, fenance and all that bullshit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578806)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:39 AM
Author: ''"''''"'

they're just highly educated. I don't think there's really anything more to it than that. if anything they're not as lib as other college-educated professions like journalism and teaching.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578810)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:39 AM
Author: Duck-like comical business firm dysfunction (0x6c542c3a976e324ccb84d594cbc084bd57597849)

same reason why elite schools are liberal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578812)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 8:40 AM
Author: ......;,;.,;,,.,;,.,;,.;;,.,;,..,.,;,.,.;,


213. Because of their need for rebellion and for membership in a movement, leftists or persons of similar psychological type often are unattracted to a rebellious or activist movement whose goals and membership are not initially leftist. The resulting influx of leftish types can easily turn a non-leftist movement into a leftist one, so that leftist goals replace or distort the original goals of the movement.

214. To avoid this, a movement that exalts nature and opposes technology must take a resolutely anti-leftist stance and must avoid all collaboration with leftists. Leftism is in the long run inconsistent with wild nature, with human freedom and with the elimination of modern technology. Leftism is collectivist; it seeks to bind together the entire world (both nature and the human race) into a unified whole. But this implies management of nature and of human life by organized society, and it requires advanced technology. You can’t have a united world without rapid transportation and communication, you can’t make all people love one another without sophisticated psychological techniques, you can’t have a “planned society” without the necessary technological base. Above all, leftism is driven by the need for power, and the leftist seeks power on a collective basis, through identification with a mass movement or an organization. Leftism is unlikely ever to give up technology, because technology is too valuable a source of collective power.

215. The anarchist [34] too seeks power, but he seeks it on an individual or small-group basis; he wants individuals and small groups to be able to control the circumstances of their own lives. He opposes technology because it makes small groups dependent on large organizations.

216. Some leftists may seem to oppose technology, but they will oppose it only so long as they are outsiders and the technological system is controlled by non-leftists. If leftism ever becomes dominant in society, so that the technological system becomes a tool in the hands of leftists,they will enthusiastically use it and promote its growth. In doing this they will be repeating a pattern that leftism has shown again and again in the past. When the Bolsheviks in Russia were outsiders, they vigorously opposed censorship and the secret police, they advocated self-determination for ethnic minorities, and so forth; but as soon as they came into power themselves, they imposed a tighter censorship and created a more ruthless secret police than any that had existed under the tsars, and they oppressed ethnic minorities at least as much as the tsars had done. In the United States, a couple of decades ago when leftists were a minority in our universities, leftist professors were vigorous proponents of academic freedom, but today, in those of our universities where leftists have become dominant, they have shown themselves ready to take away from everyone else’s academic freedom. (This is “political correctness.”) The same will happen with leftists and technology: They will use it to oppress everyone else if they ever get it under their own control.

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229. The leftist is oriented toward large-scale collectivism. He emphasizes the duty of the individual to serve society and the duty of society to take care of the individual. He has a negative attitude toward individualism.He often takes a moralistic tone. He tends to be for gun control, for sex education and other psychologically “en-lightened” educational methods, for social planning, for affirmative action, for multiculturalism. He tends to identify with victims. He tends to be against competition and against violence, but he often finds excuses for those leftists who do commit violence. He is fond of using the common catch-phrases of the left, like “racism,” “sexism,”“homophobia,” “capitalism,” “imperialism,” “neocolonialism,” “genocide,” “social change,” “social justice,” “social responsibility.” Maybe the best diagnostic trait of the leftist is his tendency to sympathize with the following movements: feminism, gay rights, ethnic rights, disability rights, animal rights, political correctness. Anyone who strongly sympathizes with ALL of these movements is al-most certainly a leftist. [36]

230. The more dangerous leftists, that is, those who are most power-hungry, are often characterized by arrogance or by a dogmatic approach to ideology. However,the most dangerous leftists of all may be certain oversocialized types who avoid irritating displays of aggressiveness and refrain from advertising their leftism, but work quietly and unobtrusively to promote collectivist values, “enlightened” psychological techniques for socializing children,dependence of the individual on the system, and so forth.These crypto-leftists (as we may call them) approximate certain bourgeois types as far as practical action is concerned, but differ from them in psychology, ideology and motivation. The ordinary bourgeois tries to bring people under control of the system in order to protect his way of life,or he does so simply because his attitudes are conventional. The crypto-leftist tries to bring people under control of the system because he is a True Believer in a collectivistic ideology. The crypto-leftist is differentiated from the average leftist of the oversocialized type by the fact that his rebellious impulse is weaker and he is more securely socialized. He is differentiated from the ordinary well-socialized bourgeois by the fact that there is some deep lack within him that makes it necessary for him to devote himself to a cause and immerse himself in a collectivity. And maybe his (well-sublimated) drive for power is stronger than that of the average bourgeois.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578818)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:35 AM
Author: peeface

why doesn't the ford motor company still distribute the dearborn independent?

it used to be full of hard right wingers. the median was probably crank libertarianism.

but look at the grief peter thiel has to put up with these days. he barely hangs on and he's fucking peter thiel. anyone less has to hide or run.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40578988)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:37 AM
Author: .,.,,..,..,.,.,:,,:,....,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.:,,.


ford was bought by jews "years" ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579267)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:40 AM
Author: GnosticBatFraudWang

IQ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579005)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:41 AM
Author: .,.,..,,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,.,..,:,.,.:.:.,:.::,. (🦈)


lolno. The dumber the people in tech the more shrilly shitlib they are. The smartest people are obviously closet cons (Elon Musk, for example).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579010)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:41 AM
Author: Smoker

Young highly educated people are liberal. Nothing special about "tech".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579007)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 9:45 AM
Author: .,.,..,,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,.,..,:,.,.:.:.,:.::,. (🦈)


Because it is required to only speak shitlib rightthink. There are plenty of cons in tech, but they can't speak out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579027)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:41 AM
Author: .,.,,..,,,..,,.,.,,...,,..,,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,.


i just checked teamblind. it doesn't seem very liberal

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Black-Owned-Banks-Recommendations-Hvn3GmZY

https://www.teamblind.com/post/BLM-at-work-wLpeiDt3

https://www.teamblind.com/search/blm

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579280)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:43 AM
Author: aggressive prole

Blind is 98% FOB

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579293)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:44 AM
Author: .,.,,..,,,..,,.,.,,...,,..,,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,.


isn't that like 90% of silicon valley engineers? i would hardly call them liberal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579300)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:48 AM
Author: aggressive prole

I agree. I think op must be taking about “white” tech dorks like who are very liberal and mostly at least considering transitioning

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579329)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:55 AM
Author: .,.,,..,,,..,,.,.,,...,,..,,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,.


CR and that's like a fraction of engineers. I guess they're the most vocal along with the admins and diversity officers. The FOB crowd comprising of 90% of the engineers hardly gives a shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579367)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 10:57 AM
Author: .,.,,..,,,..,,.,.,,...,,..,,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,.


I also suspect the NOWAG/NOWIG engineers may support Democrats due to the visa/h1b situation and not due to wokeness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579377)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 11:00 AM
Author: ......;,;.,;,,.,;,.,;,.;;,.,;,..,.,;,.,.;,


it's also due to status, especially in their industry. they are supporting the party line so that it doesn't hinder them from advancing. and why would they care about white conservative America, anyway; they aren't even Americans. it's like how Julia is a rancid lib here but voted more conservative in Colombia.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579396)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 11:09 AM
Author: .,.,,..,,,..,,.,.,,...,,..,,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,.


cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579445)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 11:17 AM
Author: ......;,;.,;,,.,;,.,;,.;;,.,;,..,.,;,.,.;,


what most people don't really understand is that a lot of this shift left is really just people in the middle aligning with where the status of the day is. this is helped by the fact that we are now multicultural and so there is a critical mass of nonwhites who use leftism (or rather, get USED by leftism) to oppose whites and gain more political power and status.

most of these tech engineers in a different time and place where tech was conservative would be parroting those same conservative principles, attending church and supporting family and nation and even white culture.

likewise, all these "woke" young white women are the exact same women would would have gotten caught up in something like prohibition in the early 20th century, or some protestant religious awakening. they just don't realize it or have enough wherewithal to admit it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579500)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 11:14 AM
Author: .,.,,..,..,.,.,:,,:,....,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.:,,.




(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579482)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 11:16 AM
Author: .,.,..,,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,.,..,:,.,.:.:.,:.::,. (🦈)


"That’s why they don’t cover the 14 dead and 88 injured in Chicago"

Hmmm...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579493)



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Date: July 10th, 2020 11:17 AM
Author: .,.,,..,,,..,,.,.,,...,,..,,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,,.,,.,.


lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4580654&forum_id=2#40579507)