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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Oh you and I know that, but what about Damocles?
    I've asked him and explained it to him multiple times. Maybe you have a better luck than me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AProudLefty View Post
    I've asked him and explained it to him multiple times. Maybe you have a better luck than me?
    Well is is kinda fun watching the far right get their heads flattened on all sides by factual information. Of course the damage just makes their heads smaller and harder.
    Thomas Jefferson (to Richard Price) January 8. 1789 "...wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Well is is kinda fun watching the far right get their heads flattened on all sides by factual information. Of course the damage just makes their heads smaller and harder.
    It has to be painful.

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    Honesty is not the Repubs friend. There is zero call to burn books. Nobody is suggesting rounding them up and having a bonfire. The Suess family decided the books had a bad message that they did not want to back and they decided to quit publishing them. They still print the other 50. The left and Dems were as surprised as anyone else. They had nothing to do with it.
    Historically, book burning has been the province of conservatives trying to burn out "radical " ideas.

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