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Locut0s

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17. It wouldn't surprise me...

Reply to Recursion (Reply #8)

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 05:21 AM

Jan 2014

It plays into the American mythos. Cowboy politics, actors as politicians or presidents, joe everybody being president, the Wild West mentality, people seem to lap it up. Little do they realize, or care, how much damage is done.

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