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Liberty Shrugged

Young Man, There's a place for you in the machine

By 2040, America is safe, sane, and heavily surveilled. The air smells faintly of disinfectant and ancestral duty. No one says “woke” anymore.

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Kara Cardinale
May 28, 2025
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Woke has been classified as hate speech against the American Nap. Welcome to the orderly dystopia Marcus Chen was born to inherit. You may remember it. It used to be a country.

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