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n. - Any place of pain and turmoil.

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  • Forcing poor minority people to live your commie welfare-state hellhole is racist.
  • Anything that helps transform Red State America into a rusty industrial hellhole is fine by me. fostert says:
  • I know that San Antonio isn't necessarily the best town in the US (although we like it) but calling it a hellhole is going a bit far.
  • The reality that the only reason we’re IN this desert hellhole is oil for our ridiculous ‘Hummers & SUVs … never dawns on him.
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