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Feb 2012
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Vote or let someone else decide for you, that's how we got Dubya. And he's killed plenty.
Kurmudgeon
Feb 2012
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(129,879 posts)1. Well, that settles it, then.
Guess I won't vote at all.
Or, if I just go and kill one of my neighbors myself and drag his corpse to the polls with me as proof, would it then be OK for me to vote? Would just one neighbor be enough?
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knowbody0
(8,310 posts)2. my grandfather, Morgan
lived on Meeker Street.
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Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)3. that's pretty twisted.
not voting isn't a 'vote' to save your neighbors. Don't fool yourself into thinking it is.
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Kurmudgeon
(1,751 posts)4. Vote or let someone else decide for you, that's how we got Dubya. And he's killed plenty.
So vote so it doesn't happen again.
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ellisonz
(27,776 posts)5. Locking: Lounge Material.
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