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struggle4progress

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5. We have several advantages in this fight: we outnumber them; we're right and they're wrong; and

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 12:12 PM

Feb 2020

maybe they can fool many people sometimes and some people most times, but they won't always fool everybody

The basic truths that narcissists and sociopaths overlook is that many minds are better than few, that facts eventually triumph over ideology, and that nobody is ever as smart as they think they are

They will suddenly discover that friends come and go but real enemies inexorably accumulate

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We have several advantages in this fight: we outnumber them; we're right and they're wrong; and struggle4progress Feb 2020 #5