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newspeak

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18. what's funny about taking away people's livelihoods and causing hardship to families?

Reply to aint_no_life_nowhere (Reply #5)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 12:07 PM

Mar 2012

I don't think he should have told that particular story today, when people are losing jobs now. To me, it shows a lack of sensitivity for others and a reminder of where he really came from, and it's not from the proles. Oh wait!! keep telling those stories mittens!!!

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