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Word of the day: Gombeen (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by RJ567 on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +91Score on mirror )
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RJ567 on scored.co
1 year ago 6 points (+0 / -0 / +6Score on mirror ) 1 child
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombeen_man
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CanticleFlugelhorn on scored.co
1 year ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / +10Score on mirror ) 2 children
Funny wiki article.

'The term referred originally to a money lender and became associated particularly with those Irish Catholic shopkeepers and merchants'

Why do I doubt this.
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TakenusernameA on scored.co
1 year ago 11 points (+0 / -0 / +11Score on mirror )
(((projection))) is their favortite weapon
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XBX_X on scored.co
1 year ago 8 points (+0 / -0 / +8Score on mirror )
Wikipedia again?

> Several years ago, another project came to light that targeted Wikipedia. ... A 2008 exposé in the Electronic Intifada revealed: “A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Source: [How Israel and Its Partisans Work to Censor the Internet](https://www.unz.com/article/how-israel-and-its-partisans-work-to-censor-the-internet/)
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