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PatSeg

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9. When I became an adult,

Reply to Oneironaut (Original post)

Sat Apr 21, 2018, 09:26 AM

Apr 2018

I was aware that there were a lot of truly stupid people, but at that time, there was no Fox News and being they had no interest in politics, they rarely voted. They watched professional wrestling on TV and read the Enquirer. For the most part they were fairly harmless, unless they had too much to drink. Then some republicans saw them as an untapped resource and Fox saw them as potential viewers.

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As I grew into an adult, my biggest disappointment was how stupid human adults are. [View all] Oneironaut Apr 2018 OP

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