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Leftoids when you don't think children should be able to check out books with graphic depictions of buttsex from the school library: REEEEE FASCISM REEEE BOOK BURNING REEEE
Leftoids when adults want to 3D print cheap plastic trinkets: OI MATE YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT PRINTER?
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Is this fricking /pol/ now, b-word? Keep yourself safe
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You first.
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Fight me irl cute twink
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ok
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I'd beat both of you up at the same time lmao
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hot
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He said beat up, not beat off.
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He obviously made a typo.
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It'd be easy what with all your heart attacks
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My secret ninjustsu is called a gun
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Don't like government requiring a license for fricking printers, must be a poltard. Keep yourself safe.
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Thinking liberal dem NY is fricking leftoid is fricking peak /pol/ that entire whataboutist strawman is fricking peaker /pol/
Gun. Mouth. Head back. Keep yourself safe
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Darn, they're only liberal democrats (which are defined in America as the more left wing of the two major parties) aren't leftoids. Leftoids have a clear definition and it's not a left-wing party. Fricking blow your merriam webster dictionary butt head clean off.
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How could I forget to a fricking rightoid everyone that isn't a fricking qtard is a fricking gommie.
Drink bleach.
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Left doesn't equal left, ok r-slur. "You aren't a leftoid until you literally sucking Marx's peepee, everything else is center". Please keep defining words in "unique" ways, it's very entertaining. I hope you live a long and happy life with your goldfish brain.
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!commies you heard it here folx, the fricking democratixs are fricking GOMMIES feat. This rightoid
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All popular American political figures are liberals, within the liberal paradigm the democrats are the left wing party. you could have just put the marx quote about guns and been done with it.
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If the proletariat is meant to seize the means of production, then maybe we should be giving free 3d printers to everyone.
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Did I ever call the New York Dems commies? Are you illiterate or just schizophrenic? I merely called them leftoids. The fact that you only define leftoids as commies, is literally what I have been arguing about. You mental and probably physical midget.
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