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stillwaiting

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8. Movement conservatives take irony and hypocrisy to STRATOSPHERICAL levels.

Reply to bemildred (Reply #5)

Fri Apr 17, 2015, 08:36 AM

Apr 2015

And many are blind to it, while those that aren't don't care since it advances their ideology.

There is no reasonable discussion to be had with movement conservatives. They aren't honest in their communications.

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