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The average American is far poorer than any of us can understand

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Fantasy-prone point
  10/22/25
US is so unequal ppl who are in upper professional class hav...
vigorous abode mexican
  10/22/25
I remain completely baffled as to how the covid checks made ...
zippy mediation
  10/22/25
everyone had ppp loans
Laughsome Flushed Locale
  10/22/25
What a scam that was. Direct transfer from the wagies to &qu...
Black vivacious hall deer antler
  10/22/25
I have prole co-workers who were in tears and high-fiving wh...
Anal self-centered market marketing idea
  10/22/25
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Ebony travel guidebook lettuce
  10/22/25
give every prole $3000 and prices go up on everything by 70%
salmon parlor
  10/22/25
Supposedly in 2024 poors and muds were citing "Donald T...
Galvanic translucent spot
  10/22/25
Weird how this didn’t work at all in 2020. Almost like...
bateful buff native sneaky criminal
  10/22/25
I think this is it
Flesh disturbing jap area
  10/22/25
they also copped UE benefits for like 3 years, niggas were j...
vigorous abode mexican
  10/22/25
If you’re barely making enough to cover bills, an extr...
appetizing carnelian stage
  10/22/25
*goes to vegas*
Hot den
  10/22/25
They got $3k checks and $30k PPP loans they never paid back....
Iridescent shaky business firm mood
  10/22/25
In 2023, 62 year old Dani Walker, living in Seattle, WA plea...
motley cobalt property dragon
  10/22/25
lol she was sentenced to a year of house arrest. If you got ...
bateful buff native sneaky criminal
  10/22/25
I didn't get a covid check.
Fantasy-prone point
  10/23/25
XO flame aside, your average prole is only worth about $1 mi...
Galvanic translucent spot
  10/22/25
Those are 2020 numbers. I am the average prole. Net worth is...
erotic nudist cuck
  10/22/25
That's true, net worth indicators are always lagging survey ...
Galvanic translucent spot
  10/22/25
Flame? proles aren’t worth a million dollars and most ...
motley cobalt property dragon
  10/22/25
Why is it so easy to run flame on you? Lmao. So touchy about...
ungodly heaven
  10/22/25
Yeah ok
motley cobalt property dragon
  10/22/25
imo proles get auto-enrolled in the company 401k then have t...
Seedy lodge giraffe
  10/22/25
medical bills for a whole range of illnesses late in life ar...
contagious gas station
  10/22/25
Only about 19% of US households are worth over a million and...
Iridescent shaky business firm mood
  10/22/25
that’s only what they report though. if you were to in...
supple purple alpha principal's office
  10/22/25
Wut? The median household net worth in the U.S. is around $1...
Hideous antidepressant drug electric furnace
  10/24/25
Most Americans are worth a couple million but it’s usu...
Glittery range stock car
  10/22/25
That's why I feel like I can walk away from my shitty job. ...
Obsidian theatre water buffalo
  10/22/25
Approximately 12% to 18% of U.S. households had a net worth ...
Charismatic background story
  10/23/25
The standard edgelord Reagan/Bush era GOP take was that our ...
bateful buff native sneaky criminal
  10/22/25
Idk if this is true anymore, redditors seemed overwhelmed ju...
ungodly heaven
  10/22/25
lol redditors eat out at least 50% of their meals and spend ...
bateful buff native sneaky criminal
  10/23/25
Yeah I scratch my head when people blame “restaurant p...
ungodly heaven
  10/23/25
there’s a lot of truth here even if it was a dreamt up...
supple purple alpha principal's office
  10/22/25
Here's a description of how daily life weighed on everyone d...
erotic nudist cuck
  10/22/25
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Anal self-centered market marketing idea
  10/22/25
Interesting quote: “The leading article in The Illu...
Misunderstood Elastic Band Theater Stage
  10/23/25
billboard economy - bottom 99% take care of top 1%, like spe...
Marvelous outnumbered locus
  10/23/25
The people are reddit are so unbelievably poor and make comm...
costumed hyperventilating ape
  10/23/25
somebody will make a post about eating from a dumpster and a...
supple purple alpha principal's office
  10/23/25
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Fantasy-prone point
  10/23/25
lmfao
Charismatic background story
  10/23/25
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Flesh disturbing jap area
  10/24/25
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Galvanic translucent spot
  10/24/25
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Misunderstood Elastic Band Theater Stage
  10/25/25
through the magic of fractional reserve banking those proles...
Sick Candlestick Maker Hissy Fit
  10/24/25
They're all being "repossessed" now ljl
Anal self-centered market marketing idea
  10/25/25
you haven't lived in real America until you shop regularly f...
contagious gas station
  10/24/25
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Fantasy-prone point
  10/25/25


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Date: October 22nd, 2025 12:31 AM
Author: Fantasy-prone point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365519)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 12:37 AM
Author: vigorous abode mexican

US is so unequal ppl who are in upper professional class have no idea how furked pathetic and retarded bottom 50% is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365531)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:21 AM
Author: zippy mediation

I remain completely baffled as to how the covid checks made a material difference in people’s lives and had huge effects on the economy. It was like $3,000 over the course of a year. Even if you’re only making $40,000, that shouldn’t move the needle for you *that* much. But people went balling out of control, taking trips to Florida, entering into leases of luxury apartments, buying ETH, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365582)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:42 AM
Author: Laughsome Flushed Locale

everyone had ppp loans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365592)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:35 AM
Author: Black vivacious hall deer antler

What a scam that was. Direct transfer from the wagies to "business" people. fucking fraud country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49366034)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 1:49 AM
Author: Anal self-centered market marketing idea

I have prole co-workers who were in tears and high-fiving when the covid checks arrived. I told one guy that it really wasn't all that much and he looked at me like I was crazy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365597)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: Ebony travel guidebook lettuce



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49366019)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:24 AM
Author: salmon parlor

give every prole $3000 and prices go up on everything by 70%

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365698)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:25 AM
Author: Galvanic translucent spot

Supposedly in 2024 poors and muds were citing "Donald Trump checks" as a reason to vote for him. It made that big of a difference to them LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365699)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:30 AM
Author: bateful buff native sneaky criminal

Weird how this didn’t work at all in 2020. Almost like they were just looking for any justification to vote Trump after the Dems decided to nominate the barely re-animated corpse of Joe Biden after he’d been dead for 18 months.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365780)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: Flesh disturbing jap area

I think this is it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365988)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:27 AM
Author: vigorous abode mexican

they also copped UE benefits for like 3 years, niggas were just living off this shit not having to work

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365703)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:28 AM
Author: appetizing carnelian stage

If you’re barely making enough to cover bills, an extra 3k sounds nice. Especially when you have no savings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365704)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:08 AM
Author: Hot den

*goes to vegas*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49366008)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:33 AM
Author: Iridescent shaky business firm mood

They got $3k checks and $30k PPP loans they never paid back. The $30k was why they were ballin. Also, the self employed lawyer bros with firms whose only employee was the founders wife got more like $240k in PPP checks. My music teacher wife with an s-corp got $60k.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365782)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:43 AM
Author: motley cobalt property dragon

In 2023, 62 year old Dani Walker, living in Seattle, WA plead guilty to stealing nearly $500,000 from the program to, among other things, purchase a Jaguar coup with a faux diamond license plate cover, spent $34,000 on a luxury vacation to New York – including a Louis Vuitton shopping spree -; and invested unsuccessfully in cryptocurrency. After being approached by the FBI, Walker continued her fraudulent scheme and continued to apply for PPP loans based on non existent employees.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/seattle-woman-sentenced-intermittent-custody-defrauding-covid-assistance-program

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365795)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:50 AM
Author: bateful buff native sneaky criminal

lol she was sentenced to a year of house arrest. If you got her to answer honestly I am sure she would tell you she’d do it all again if she had the chance.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/seattle-woman-sentenced-intermittent-custody-defrauding-covid-assistance-program

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365813)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 6:56 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone point

I didn't get a covid check.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49369564)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:25 AM
Author: Galvanic translucent spot

XO flame aside, your average prole is only worth about $1 million USD and most of it is tied up in retirement accounts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365700)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:45 AM
Author: erotic nudist cuck

Those are 2020 numbers. I am the average prole. Net worth is about $2m in October 2025. As you say, a lot of it is tied up in retirement accounts, home equity, maybe 10% is actually liquid. 4 kids and a mortgage due on the first of the month.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365726)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 7:48 AM
Author: Galvanic translucent spot

That's true, net worth indicators are always lagging survey data and the stock market has gone up since then. Still, it's directionally correct.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365732)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:24 AM
Author: motley cobalt property dragon

Flame? proles aren’t worth a million dollars and most of them don’t even have retirement accounts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365772)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:27 AM
Author: ungodly heaven

Why is it so easy to run flame on you? Lmao. So touchy about your NW (and NW)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365776)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:29 AM
Author: motley cobalt property dragon

Yeah ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365779)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:34 AM
Author: Seedy lodge giraffe

imo proles get auto-enrolled in the company 401k then have to pay an early penalty to take it out after they get fired a month later. oops!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365783)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:37 AM
Author: contagious gas station

medical bills for a whole range of illnesses late in life are what causes the most pain, suffering, and ultimate personal bankruptcy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365787)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:10 AM
Author: Iridescent shaky business firm mood

Only about 19% of US households are worth over a million and that’s including home equity. Most of the people with houses will never pay them off….

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49366011)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: supple purple alpha principal's office

that’s only what they report though. if you were to include the value of the average prole’s trucks, atvs, boats, home entertainment systems, guns, labubus, etc., even at massive discounts to market value, that number would go up to 75-80%.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49366017)



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Date: October 24th, 2025 12:13 AM
Author: Hideous antidepressant drug electric furnace

Wut? The median household net worth in the U.S. is around $100k. For non-homeowners, it is about $10k. Most true proles have a negative net worth with no retirement accounts, no home equity, and an $80k loan for an F-150 plus about $10k-$20k more on various credit cards.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49370356)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:36 AM
Author: Glittery range stock car

Most Americans are worth a couple million but it’s usually tied up in a house so they only have $500k or so liquid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365786)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:47 AM
Author: Obsidian theatre water buffalo

That's why I feel like I can walk away from my shitty job. I have low 2 million net worth, but if you take away the 401k and house, it's ~1.8 with crypto being down

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365807)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:08 PM
Author: Charismatic background story

Approximately 12% to 18% of U.S. households had a net worth of over $1 million as of 2022 and 2023 data.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49368661)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: bateful buff native sneaky criminal

The standard edgelord Reagan/Bush era GOP take was that our poors were way too rich and spoiled and entitled. And I don’t mean welfare queen schtick I mean that in private they would tell you that the vast majority of the worlds underclass lived on the brink of starvation and had no opportunity to better themselves, but in the U.S. our poors lived better than all but the top 5-10% in most other countries, and they would cite the per capita GDP stats comparing to Europe (which got even more drastic since) and say things like “how many people below the poverty line in the U.S. have a car? Or eat out once a week? Or blast their A/C all summer and their heat all winter?” And “in what other countries do they give their poor special privileges to access higher education? We bend over backward to make sure we do everything we can to help any person who is poor but shows a glimmer of talent and capability and makes a minimal effort to organize their presentation of those talents to a university.” And if you really got them going they’d eventually build to “the New Deal was a mistake” and “maybe we should engineer another dust bowl” and the lawyer nerd versions would start ranting about the Lochner court. And those Reaganite edgelords were full of shit and ultimately half hearted in making these arguments as another attempt to justify tax cuts, but they had a point. 90% of the pity we show to poor people in the U.S. is just middle class people enjoying the implication about their relative status and indulging their own class insecurity and envy of the wealthy. I’d much rather be poor in the U.S. than anywhere other than about 3 countries in Europe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365798)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: ungodly heaven

Idk if this is true anymore, redditors seemed overwhelmed just trying to support themselves.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49365957)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 12:51 PM
Author: bateful buff native sneaky criminal

lol redditors eat out at least 50% of their meals and spend their days playing video games and jerking to anime. Not exactly Grapes of Wrath.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49368602)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:25 PM
Author: ungodly heaven

Yeah I scratch my head when people blame “restaurant portions” for obesity….. but yeah it’d be interesting to see if these idiots are making 50k and spending 51k/yr when High Losers make $390k and spend like 37k.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49368714)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:06 AM
Author: supple purple alpha principal's office

there’s a lot of truth here even if it was a dreamt up as a self-serving post hoc justification.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49366004)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:43 AM
Author: erotic nudist cuck

Here's a description of how daily life weighed on everyone during the world's greatest Empire to ever exist on Planet Earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49366054)



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Date: October 22nd, 2025 11:15 PM
Author: Anal self-centered market marketing idea



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49367618)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 12:51 AM
Author: Misunderstood Elastic Band Theater Stage

Interesting quote:

“The leading article in The Illustrated London News commented that:

We can colonise the remotest ends of the earth; we can conquer India; we can pay the interest of the most enormous debt ever contracted; we can spread our name, and our fame, and our fructifying wealth to every part of the world; but we cannot clean the River Thames.[37]”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49367730)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: Marvelous outnumbered locus

billboard economy - bottom 99% take care of top 1%, like spent rocket fuel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49368665)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: costumed hyperventilating ape

The people are reddit are so unbelievably poor and make comments all the time about being poor in the most innocuous way like everyone else is also poor and stupid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49368667)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 1:16 PM
Author: supple purple alpha principal's office

somebody will make a post about eating from a dumpster and a brigade of redditors will swarm in with spiels about how “this sub is being taken over by people humble bragging” and how they “dream about the day [they] might be able to eat from a dumpster” and how that poster’s “father was probably the CEO of Dumpster, Inc. which is the only way he was able to afford it.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49368675)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 7:00 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49369577)



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Date: October 23rd, 2025 11:39 PM
Author: Charismatic background story

lmfao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49370272)



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Date: October 24th, 2025 12:14 AM
Author: Flesh disturbing jap area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49370359)



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Date: October 24th, 2025 8:59 AM
Author: Galvanic translucent spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49370712)



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Date: October 25th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Misunderstood Elastic Band Theater Stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49373548)



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Date: October 24th, 2025 9:26 AM
Author: Sick Candlestick Maker Hissy Fit

through the magic of fractional reserve banking those proles were able to transform $3k into a brand-new-to-me Dodge Charger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49370771)



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Date: October 25th, 2025 12:14 AM
Author: Anal self-centered market marketing idea

They're all being "repossessed" now ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49373261)



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Date: October 24th, 2025 9:33 AM
Author: contagious gas station

you haven't lived in real America until you shop regularly for food at Family Dollar Stores

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49370783)



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Date: October 25th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788548&forum_id=2Ã#49374536)