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Old 08-01-2016, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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And you know everything I've been through and countries I've lived in? Wow. We got a psychic in the house!
I don't claim to be psychic.

Just comparing most Americans' daily experience with, for instance, Ivan Denisovich's. (Fictional character, I know.) Oppressed? We're not. Not even close. Which leads me to question the experience of someone who claims we are.
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Old 08-01-2016, 09:53 PM
 
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LOL are you going to give a sermon?
Discussing whether Americans are oppressed is giving a sermon? Ooooookaaaaay.
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Old 08-01-2016, 09:56 PM
 
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Americans will never rise up against the government. Democrats for the most part are content with status quo. We are about to have another Democrat fo Prez. The Republicans are too scared to rise up. Dont believe me, just read their posts on CD. They are all afraid of a little old lady named hillary! Its really ironic considering the Republicans own most of the guns in America.
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Old 08-01-2016, 10:52 PM
 
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We've been pushed around by our corrupt government serving their own interests and it seems to only be going downhill from here.

Is there a tipping point? Are the American people united enough to overthrow a government that becomes too oppressive (not suggesting that it's unbearable now, but could reach that point). Or, do they have our psychology in tight reins, able to steer us wherever they want?
people have been 'dumbed down' over the last decade or 3, so its a lot of damage that needs to get undone, Trump is really helping 'undo' the 'going thru the motions' and he's forcing people to think and he's forcing people to have an opinion and he's forcing people to pick a side and be passionate about it. we need passion and trump has injected passion into america like a hot beef injection. thank you donald, we owe you huuuuge.
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Old 08-01-2016, 11:01 PM
 
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people have been 'dumbed down' over the last decade or 3, so its a lot of damage that needs to get undone, Trump is really helping 'undo' the 'going thru the motions' and he's forcing people to think and he's forcing people to have an opinion and he's forcing people to pick a side and be passionate about it. we need passion and trump has injected passion into america like a hot beef injection. thank you donald, we owe you huuuuge.
I'm not voting, but I do appreciate that he is shaking things up. I'm usually most scared when no one questions anything.
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Old 08-01-2016, 11:03 PM
 
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I'm not voting, but I do appreciate that he is shaking things up. I'm usually most scared when no one questions anything.
we haven't questioned anything in a long time, we just sit back, surf the internet, keep up with the kardashians and see what taylor swift is up to, that's it in a nutshell, we question nothing.
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Old 08-01-2016, 11:05 PM
 
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2017.
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Old 08-01-2016, 11:05 PM
 
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we haven't questioned anything in a long time, we just sit back, surf the internet, keep up with the kardashians and see what taylor swift is up to, that's it in a nutshell, we question nothing.
What is there to question?

The world woke and is passing America by while you folks complain instead of adapting.
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Old 08-01-2016, 11:07 PM
 
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What is there to question?

The world woke and is passing America by while you folks complain instead of adapting.
what's there to question?

Authority.
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Old 08-01-2016, 11:12 PM
 
Location: ATX-HOU
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what's there to question?

Authority.
Why? Because too many people were lazy or thought they were star spangled awesome the world would always favor America?
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