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I'm thinking a lot of overlap.

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Inshallah.

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and of course getting this rubbish from some YouTube nutter is what they define as "doing research". It boggles the mind.

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Is there any way to add to their conspiracy that refusal to wear masks is actually a way for the traffickers to identify each other or something? If we have to deal with the conspiracies, there must be a way to use it for good.

I had one tell me to stop eating cupcakes and start learning to internet because my daughter's the perfect age for killing to harvest blood to drink.

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Back when records, cassettes, and 8-tracks were sold on television commercials and took 4 to 6 weeks to arrive.

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He had that Pullman sex car on The Wabash Cannonball, after all.

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I was going to join a Procrastinator's Group but just never got around to it

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And sparkly shoes too!

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Pedants don't get an account either. 😒

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That could be beautiful. And have heroic stories about one person who saw thru things-- Like in that Kipling story Kim. Just standing up to liars and cutting out so much crap. Just learning real science and showing the science side of science when they're really little. I always love to think about the meteor in Connecticut that was probably whizzing thru space for a billion years and then it flew thru the roof of this house and into this dining room and bounced on the floor and back up to the ceiling and back down. Like a rubber ball! It seems so hilarious to me, and if I was a science teacher I'd say, yet all this whole time it was obeying the same rules.

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Who cares about that? If people were to blame for their bad leaders, Russians would have to hide for the next ten thousand years.

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John Oliver's show was about this last week, and the need to change the way people evaluate what they read online. There's even videos to share with various relatives (including an Alex Trebek one for your Fox-watching grandparents!). I recommend it.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Exact same behavior you saw in the early Jeebus Freak days ... the inside winks and nods at church give the lonely and ignorant the idea they are in on some insider stuff, and, tbh, Christianity was the Mystery Religions, which did the same thing only all gussied up, but the New Testament was for poor folks who couldn't pay up the coin for the Mystery part, so all they got was the Vengeful God and the, yikes, late in life circumcision ruling ... thx Saul!!!

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The classic Venn Diagram master of all this is the known intersection between the Far Right and Far Left ... a strange and dangerous place indeed, though it is quite small overall and more Right despite them being wrong on everything. The rest manage to fit inside that egg somehow, precisely why Hillary used the basket metaphor ... it wasn't for Easter ...

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Early forging frauding faking Christian Church Papas claimed evidence contrary to their scroll fables had been planted by a time traveling devil ... yup, that was their story ...

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Imbecilic Vulgarians known to have been fooled by Putin cash accounts on FB were surveyed and replied their biggest online challenge was opening new tabs and browser windows ... actual data ...

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