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Delmette2.0

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29. Silence is agreement.

Reply to ArizonaLib (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 19, 2021, 08:22 PM

Jan 2021

He didn't speak up and disagree, or challenge their statements, so he must have agreed with them. He stood around with good thumb up his butt said nothing and did nothing.

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