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Then no, it doesn't constitute a profound argument.
Then no, it doesn't constitute a profound argument.
If, on the other hand, you read it as me describing my personal journey from teenage liberal idealist to elderly cynic, then it doesn't need to be persuasive at all. My error was in not using the singular pronoun, "I" instead of "we."
It is rhetoric for exactly this reason. It is rhetoric "for it is an alienated experience", it says your life experience can transfer onto another person's life experience in a 1:1 way.
Reality does not work that way, peoples material experiences are always different, the small details matter. Shrug
About the Plandemic tinfoil hat conspiracy folks - why the focus on Bill Gates?
- 12/05/2020 12:22:32 PM
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Phew
- 12/05/2020 03:22:21 PM
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Also, did you actually think I would believe horseshit like that? *NM*
- 12/05/2020 06:46:45 PM
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Not you. Someone on this board though... Entirely possible
- 13/05/2020 01:32:28 AM
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Re: Not you. Someone on this board though... Entirely possible
- 13/05/2020 06:36:48 AM
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Are people just numbers to you?
- 13/05/2020 08:50:22 PM
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I'm the one who cares about their quality of life and legitimate rights
- 16/05/2020 12:15:53 AM
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Yept you only see people as numbers, you are just confirming it. *NM*
- 16/05/2020 02:20:00 AM
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There's always one moron, at least...
- 14/05/2020 07:27:50 PM
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It. Does. Not. Kill. People. Not at any level that should affect public policy
- 16/05/2020 12:10:51 AM
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Re: It. Does. Not. Kill. People. Not at any level that should affect public policy
- 16/05/2020 03:05:05 AM
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It has to do with Religion and the Book of Daniel plus the Book of Revelations, aka Amillennialism
- 12/05/2020 09:55:54 PM
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Or it has to do with Bill Gates actively calling for mandatory certification of vaccination status
- 13/05/2020 06:28:35 AM
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Roland your mind works in bizarre ways.
- 13/05/2020 01:20:58 PM
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Revelations is merely the sequel to Daniel, Mark of the Beast and all that.
- 13/05/2020 05:06:21 PM
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The guy helped create Common Core. That by itself is reason to set him on fire alive. *NM*
- 15/05/2020 02:14:59 PM
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Seriously though, why can't we keep Gates away from Education? *NM*
- 15/05/2020 06:03:06 PM
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Because America buys the stupid notion that being rich means you have something useful to say
- 15/05/2020 07:00:40 PM
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Yes this is an uniquely American perspective.
- 15/05/2020 07:54:49 PM
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and then we wonder
- 16/05/2020 12:57:09 AM
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You are not going to get 75% of capacity anyway for people do not feel safe.
- 16/05/2020 03:11:39 AM
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Furthermore like I said earlier
- 16/05/2020 03:17:44 AM
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As usual
- 16/05/2020 03:31:31 AM
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Says who the governors are overstepping their authority?
- 16/05/2020 03:56:19 AM
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Are you kidding me?
- 16/05/2020 04:09:46 AM
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Mookie why is it only one direction in the past?
- 16/05/2020 04:20:07 AM
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Multiple Sherriffs and DAs who refuse to enforce their orders agree they are unconstitutional.
- 16/05/2020 04:26:48 AM
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Sigh what power each state executives have is in their own state constitution not the federal one
- 16/05/2020 04:38:25 AM
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So if their edicts violate their state constitution, aren’t they still unconstitutional? *NM*
- 16/05/2020 04:48:25 AM
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Yes but sweeping generalizations lead to metaphor sheer
- 16/05/2020 04:57:41 AM
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Roland, this has been fun
- 16/05/2020 05:05:18 AM
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Mookie like always I do hope for the best with you, Good Night 
*NM*
- 16/05/2020 05:30:13 AM
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*NM*
- 16/05/2020 05:30:13 AM
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Sherrifs and DAs don't make the rules either...so what the hell is your point? *NM*
- 16/05/2020 05:36:20 AM
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Ok, give me a logical alternative...
- 16/05/2020 03:30:30 AM
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Yes, I think it’s a legitimate threat. I have to, I’m 67 years old.
- 16/05/2020 03:53:07 AM
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Sigh the Reagan joke was originally a joke with a different meaning from Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-ME
- 16/05/2020 04:04:22 AM
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Originally? Really?
- 16/05/2020 04:13:12 AM
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Why should I trust your memory, after all we do not agree about authority. *NM*
- 16/05/2020 04:21:17 AM
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I'm 32, but I don't think age should be a factor here...
- 16/05/2020 05:34:31 AM
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I believed that 50 years ago.
- 17/05/2020 12:10:37 AM
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This isn't making much sense
- 17/05/2020 04:30:24 PM
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If, like Roland, you perceive whatever I write through the lens of rhetoric
- 17/05/2020 06:25:05 PM
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It is rhetoric
- 17/05/2020 06:46:26 PM
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