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OMGWTF

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23. Character

Reply to Boomerproud (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 13, 2025, 04:16 PM

Sunday

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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Thanks, first, to Putin; then, to Musk. Kid Berwyn Sunday #2

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Warm up.... MarcoZandrini Sunday #21

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Character OMGWTF Sunday #23

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One million times yes ... spot on Greywing Sunday #10

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Well-written. Martin68 Sunday #11

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still true...and becoming "truer"... xocetaceans Sunday #15

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Original source of the Coyne article (non facebook link) SouthBayDem Sunday #17

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