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D_Merkel
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D_Merkel - 1721462240
bot, can you get chapters 231-239?
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D_Merkel - 1721460494
bot, can you get chapters 314-326?
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D_Merkel - 1720846163
I had 5 sons. I discouraged all of them from going into the military. The Founding Fathers were against a standing military. That said, in a militaristic world like today, could the US survive without one? This is complex stuff and does not admit easy answers. For the most part the US military absorbs marginal males that are trying to reboot their lives since they were no good in school. Think of it as "community college enabling weapons."

War is part of the nature of mankind. Elites want land and other resources. They use marginal males to that end. (In Russia, they use ethnic minorities rather than Russians. In the US, we use Southerners, who are stupid enough to volunteer.)

But for this chapter, the thing that stood out to me is that she survived under very harsh conditions to make it home. She had a lot of heart.
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D_Merkel Mangaguy - 1720844923
No, scholarships for foreigners are rare in the US and France. Most of the Asians coming to study abroad have well-off parents. And there is the side advantage to wealthy parents that they may develop ways to convert their local assets into foreign assets for flight capital.
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D_Merkel - 1720240489
Large ensemble casts are difficult to follow, but Haikyu! and Food Wars made it work. I don't think World Trigger is failing here on that score.
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D_Merkel Del - 1720239264
I had to do that once.
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D_Merkel - 1720239021
You don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit in the wind. You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don't mess around with Kim!
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D_Merkel Jyo - 1719044865
Real polygamy in our world today is more of an economic system than a sex system. Polygamy involves young girls who are sold off to wealthy old men, and surplus young men don't get wives, unless they enter into a debt contract with the girl's father, for a price that is burdensome. It's a difficult system to break, because even if a man only wants to have one wife, the culture prevails upon him to take on more wives out of social duty, as uneducated young women are economically useless.

It brings a lot of misery to everyone. The debt is slavery-like. The polygamous wives and their children are neglected by their overstretched husband. The unmarried young men must leave where they grew up, and potential wives are nonexistent.

That's real polygamy -- Arab, African, and Mormon. It is not enviable in the slightest. (And how do I know this? I have west African friends who have told me about it, American friends working in east Africa, and I have read about among the Arabs and Mormons.)
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D_Merkel - 1718435793
I know that in the 1980s-90s, South Korea was emerging from corruption, but that's not true today, right?
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D_Merkel - 1717814186
I would suspect that their families learn of it through some indirect means stemming from student gossip, before they get the chance to tell them themselves.
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D_Merkel - 1717813677
From my twitter/X feed:

https://x.com/AlephBlog/status/1798395206242537981
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D_Merkel Mangaguy - 1716611206
The author has been good so far. I suspect this chapter is meant to show how deep the corruption runs in South Korea. And yes, I thought the same thing as Nexus1961, we are getting close to the end, because I think, "How can you top this?"
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D_Merkel - 1715983138
All that said, Henry gave a pretty elegant apology to Martha.
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D_Merkel - 1714212183
You are his wife. It is your duty to give him "more of that."
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D_Merkel - 1713581245
I think there is a good chance that Manager Kim will reject the battle suit. He likes the way that he dresses for battle, and doesn't want to be encumbered or less comfortable with something he isn't used to.
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D_Merkel - 1713243012
One of the most creative ways to express love.
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D_Merkel - 1713242231
They will end North Korea, and end the corruption of the South Korean government by the Chaebols. Am I exaggerating? Of course.
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D_Merkel - 1711169524
There have been tough grannies in America as well.

https://i.postimg.cc/Gtb5kCMH/i.jpg
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D_Merkel - 1711166994
Truths that sound like lies usually get disregarded as bad jokes.
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