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struggle4progress

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3. Reagan was an actor, whose job was to promote a fantasy view of the world

Reply to deminks (Original post)

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 02:19 PM

Jul 2012

by smiling like your long-lost Uncle Chuckles while believably delivering some feel-good line. He didn't know squat about most topics, because he didn't need to know squat to do his job -- in fact, it would have been a disadvantage to him as an actor to know too much, because his delivery depended on him believing his own blather

Abrams probably did know about it and probably didn't give a rat's ass

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