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5. An old Finnish proverb: "The proud nail gets pounded down". That's what these morons need...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Apr 17, 2022, 01:13 PM

Apr 2022

...a good punishing political defeat. Unfortunately, a lot of these people are voting for this crap. It doesn't bode well for the country if this continues. Civics education needs to return to every school, probably beginning by about third grade. It disappeared from most schools by the late '80s.

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