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Kristin Gore is THAT Gore?

AWESOME!!!

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Serendipity is fun. I just happened to be listening to the soundtrack from the documentary "Red Army" while reading this, and it set just the right mood.

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Fuck Zuck.

That is all.

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Gotcha. In '89, Erich Mielke ordered the arrest of nearly 80k people at the final stage of the collapse. The local Stasi refused to arrest them for fear of being lynched.

Was the NVA ordered to fire on the protestors in '61 as well?

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Well, speculation is what passes for factual news, these days.

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But however will I be able to share with the world the pic of the wonderful grilled cheese sandwich I had for lunch?

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Mmmm

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Huh. One would think when they paid in actual Russian currency, it was not that sophisticated?

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Some Sanders staff members were suspicious of foreign hacks on Sanders' social media sites to smear Clinton at least as of July 2016, but Bernie did nothing to inform his supporters to be careful what they listened to. By not being directly involved, but still doing nothing about it, he seems to have successfully avoided blame and washed his hands of responsibility. Just as Trump did when his fans assaulted people. Hey, not my fault, I just got enthusiastic fans.

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It's a teachable skill.

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We know what those cabinet meetings are like.

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Back in '86 I was dating a guy whose new job involved Sears and IBM and it was all very hush-hush. Prodigy. I wonder what happened to him...

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I lugged around my huge collection of old MAD for years until Hurricane Andrew ate them. I gathered as many as I could and gave 'em to the Red Cross. If you ever see an archival photo of a Andrew survivor clutching the Dec 1974 issue of MAD it was probably mine.

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On the contrary I think this was part of the plan the whole time. Leave a trail of breadcrumbs so after the election either Hillary wins and then all these revelations come out and trumpers call it fake news and it sows distrust of her, or trump wins and they get to watch our democracy slowly unravel as the republicans bend over backwards to pretend it didn't happen

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