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Rex

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19. And absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

Reply to Octafish (Reply #18)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 01:40 PM

Jul 2013

I think with all that power through knowledge, they will just keep on the path of decadence and deceit. Until the power corrupts them to the core and we are left with a festering sore of a nation, built on lies and surveillance.

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