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AtheistCrusader

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18. It's in the job description, sorry.

Reply to Spouting1horn (Reply #11)

Fri Mar 9, 2018, 11:57 AM

Mar 2018

If it's all you have, you go in with a fucking toothbrush, but you still go in.

But that aside (and misidentification of the weapon aside), it's one thing to fail to respond yourself, but quite another to discourage others from acting in response as well.

That is quite the interesting finding. Bit of a record-scratch sound as you read through the various narratives of the response.

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