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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Lottery
Americans are living in a kind of Twilight Zone, a random lottery with all of our names in the rolling barrel, musical chairs of the absurd. And, when the music stops, when the Reapers hand withdraws numbers from the barrel, people are shot to death.
Stranger yet, our laws and minds have been twisted in such a way that this is acceptable.
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The Lottery (Original Post)
Magoo48
Jun 2022
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doc03
(35,325 posts)1. The odds of getting shot are far better than any of us winning
a money lottery.
Hugin
(33,120 posts)2. I've been shot...
Three times in my life.
Have never won a cash lottery.
I can vouch.
doc03
(35,325 posts)3. That's an idea for an ad. "Americans have a better chance of getting shot
3 times in their life than hitting a lottery".
Hugin
(33,120 posts)4. I'm not sure how the lobby would twist it...
I am sure they would come up with something.