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OrwellwasRight

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103. My friend Frylock suggested it to me.

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:05 AM

Jun 2015

We were both so pissed about the stolen election, the Iraq war, black box voting, "Healthy Forests," "Clean Skies," the USA PATRIOT Act and pretty much every crazy ass lie told by the Bush administration.

I almost quit my first day though. I had never been on any kind of online forum before in my life, and I had some kind of misapprehension that the peeps posting were all insiders/experts, so I blurted out some question I had been dying to ask and was immediately called out for being a troll -- why else would a newbie dare to ask questions!!!! Anyway, after I got over non-welcoming welcome, I stuck around, mostly lurking, often reading SCE's Sunday LOLcats, and sometimes making a nuisance of myself in debates about guns, GMOs, trade, and NewDems. You'll find LBN is the best news aggregator on the web!

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