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JHB

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7. Agreed

Reply to Populist_Prole (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 8, 2014, 12:26 PM

Jun 2014

E.g.,
"Y'know, sometimes I can't tell how much is just 'rah-rah for my team, boo-hiss for the other guy', and how much is believing your own advertising."

It's frustrating because any progress seems to get washed away with another dose or two of Fox and the like, but in a lot of cases you're not going to see results immediately. All you can do is plant seeds and water them when you can.

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