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Demeter

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4. I agree with that last

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 08:27 AM

Apr 2014

"defending an argument by reaching to freedom of speech only works when people are literally threatening your ability to speak"

But that happens far too much on this website lately, and in society in general, for me to accept the original post as anything but a strawman argument.

You aren't paranoid, they really ARE out to get you, and your little dog, too!

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