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BumRushDaShow

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6. "the classic definition of "an individual who acts to gain personal, selfish advantage from a situation"

Reply to Ol Janx Spirit (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 04:19 PM

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And in this case, 45 "promised" to enact ALL of my above-listed "single issues" in order to garner the votes of a "collective" of "single-issue" voters. And that is also underscored by the fact that they will ignore all the other listed issues to get their "one"... until suddenly, one of those other issues negatively impacts them somehow.

Then the clashes start.

I think they are ignorant on purpose.

There is a lot of that which is why I have that MLK quote in my sig -

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