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hunter

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6. The U.S.A. is not a first world nation.

Reply to Willie Pep (Original post)

Mon Jul 23, 2018, 06:46 PM

Jul 2018

It's a violent developing nation with an absurdly obese military budget.

Sewage isn't some problem we don't know how to fix, or don't have the economic resources to fix. We just have to fix it.

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