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Economy

QueerDuck

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2. A stopped watch is right twice a day. A blind squirrel occasionally finds a buried nut.

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Sun Nov 16, 2025, 08:05 AM

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I'm not a big fan of socialism either. As much as I dislike Maher, he gets some nods of agreement from me... he's being very logical and avoiding the typical ad-hominem traps... but the slippery-slope fallacy has always been one of his weaknesses.

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