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It Could Happen Here Weekly 7

Behind the Bastards

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Is There a Nuclear War? - 99 Red Balloons

The song 99 red balloons was not just a banger, but also very realistic. We absolutely could have had a nuclear exchange over some bucket balloons. But i think what's really important here is that what braze had actually made first contact with was america's new thermo nuclear monarchy. Having newks massively centralizes power into sort of individual peoplen into the executive branch. This produces an absolutely terrifying new age of state secrecy.

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