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Demeter

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11. The Little 1%er Ego Can't Handle It

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #10)

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 10:33 PM

Sep 2012

Last edited Tue Sep 4, 2012, 05:23 AM - Edit history (1)

That would mean they are insignificant in every way, parasites on the economy, the least useful members of society, the ones who would NOT BE MISSED IN ANY WAY.

It would also mean that FDR was right. Like the Civil War, some insults to the malware of the ego just cannot be assimilated.

ANONYMOUS IS NOT A FAD

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