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I am developing a violent allergic reaction to this kind of "must." Liberals are forever talking with one another about what "must" happen, but the people in charge just don't give a fck. Come up with a plan to sieze & deploy political power or shut up. bbc.com/news/science-e…
(Yes, I'm aware that if I followed my own advice I wouldn't have written 98% of the posts I've written.)
I'm old enough to remember when the US "must" respond to 9/11 with wisdom & equanimity and "must not" respond by building an authoritarian surveillance state & flailing off to invade random countries. Oops! All that "must" was vapor, just smoke blown aside by reactionary fury.
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