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Bettie

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14. I've been saying exactly this forever

Reply to MoonlitKnight (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:12 AM

Feb 2020

the problem with incrementalism as a strategy is that the incrementalists tend to ask for the very least they will accept and then take far less.

Ask for everything and then, accept something less, but don't lose ground.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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