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Initech

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6. No - it's their whipping boy.

Reply to lastlib (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 17, 2018, 02:29 PM

Jan 2018

They will use it to rally their base, then disavow any knowledge of harsh laws being proposed and/or passed when it is useful to them. You know - much like Hitler did with his useful idiots.

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