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72. I suspect our "social media" carries more muscle than..

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 09:03 PM

Oct 2012

... you might imagine and is growing stronger all the time. As more people come to understand just how crappy "MSM" media sources are and how much they flagrantly distort reality, the outrage builds and we come together.

They've got the money, but we've got one thing they can't stop. We are many, they are few.

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