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		fsckin on Sept 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I learned to Stop Feeling Safe in My Own Count... We don't need terrorists when the government is doing such a great job of it.

waqf on Sept 30, 2013 [–]

Sure we do, it's just that we only need them once every decade or three, when the government needs a new external enemy to invoke because the people have stopped taking the old one seriously for some reason.

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