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[#16] CONTRA I: Revenge of the Sacred Cowboy & the 1980 October Surprise

Subliminal Jihad

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Is It the Most Kind of Satanic Thing You Could Imagine?

i think, honestly, i think the contra half is more shocking and disturbing. It was almost like a good cover for, like, the worst parts of the scandal. I feel like that was a very establishment friendly way of looking at a ran contra. The whole aspect of like aran or selling weapons to them just goes to show how superficial their politics are. They sneake across these sort of a grand gea political alignments but they don't necessarily map on to one another. And even calling the book tricker treason, i guess that would be the logical kind of conclusion you would ask, like, is this treason? Am i thinking for most americans, the more relevant thing

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