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maxsolomon

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5. Welcome to DU

Reply to AlanAdam (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 04:00 PM

Oct 15

Maybe you'll learn the value of "comments like that" over your time here.

Maybe you'll learn that it doesn't have value per se, and it's simply a jape referencing the CIA's history of involvement in the cocaine trade to aid the Contras in Nicaragua.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking

Or perhaps you won't learn anything.

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