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longship

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17. Ahhh! Yup!

Reply to freshwest (Reply #9)

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 12:57 AM

Sep 2014

Anybody who cannot see this inescapable truth is either delusional, or brainwashed by some insidious ideology. Neither will gain humankind anything.

The only hope is the equality of all humans, all over the world.

I like the way FDR expressed it in 1941:

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