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hifiguy

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5. Wish I could K&R this a hundred times.

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 06:07 PM

Jul 2015

IIRC, the Pinochet regime's favorite method of executing those who refused to be enlightened to the benefits of fascism and Friedmanism was throwing them out of airplanes cruising along at about three miles up.

All courtesy of that "defender of human rights" (according to Hillary Clinton) war criminal Henry Kissinger.

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