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DirkGently

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6. Trading favors vs the collective good.

Reply to Octafish (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 26, 2015, 12:04 PM

Oct 2015

These are the competing paradigms. Cynics tell us empty power mongering among elites is "reality."

Then they set about making sure that's the case.

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American Psychos: How we shouldn’t be doing business in politics [View all] nashville_brook Oct 2015 OP

Excellent post. Octafish Oct 2015 #1

that's in the back of my mind, that i'd support someone like this i'd they'd turn out nashville_brook Oct 2015 #3

Proof is in the pudding. Octafish Oct 2015 #5

Trading favors vs the collective good. DirkGently Oct 2015 #6

All the digging may have revealed the root. Octafish Oct 2015 #7

I regret I have but one rec to give... KG Oct 2015 #2

++++ Everything old is new again. In a bad, bad way. DirkGently Oct 2015 #4

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