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If ideology was the stew Robinson cooked in, then social media was the kitchen where it simmered. You don’t get to a rooftop with engraved bullets without a trail of thoughts, posts, chats, and digital fragments behind you. And in 2025, those fragments tell the story louder than any diary ever could.
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