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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   2251 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 5, 2025

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Cuckoldry is a subject and an insult I try to stay away intuitively, nothing good comes from even knowing about it

Though see also the legendary American obsession with the putative virility of black men

Which never made any sense to me, not a surprise that people who actually believe this stuff are usually wierdo outcasts who pay internet domme mommies money.

I'd reckon the same thousands of White British girls from low-human-capital backgrounds were sex-trafficked by old men who look like the cast of Top Gear long before the Pakistanis came along,

I disagree, Jimmy abused hundreds, and maybe thousands but it's very difficult to claim the numbers would be the same. The targeted rapes are targeted, Jimmy was just a creep, thus is you treating host girls as war brides and state supplicating to your demands due to the cathedral having set the consensus. His reactions align with sanity, the suggestions don't.

I'm surprised to know if he did fedpost on reddit, I cannot imagine even using cuss words there unless they're targeted towards non bioleninsts.

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