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Old 11-28-2016, 11:43 AM
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I hate stores. I hate shopping. I wouldn't be caught out on Black Friday if you paid me. They could turn every big box into distribution warehouses and do solely home delivery and it'd be just fine with me.
People are idiots, hung up on material things, as you said. As they age, some of them will figure it out. Note you don't see a lot of folks over 40 engaging in this crap.
I got a black Friday deal on a couple of those Ancestry.com DNA kits.

They had them on sale for $69 bucks instead of the usual $99.

Ordered them over the internet while sitting at my kitchen table.

I avoid stores as much as possible from Mid November to after New Years.
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Old 11-30-2016, 09:44 AM
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The fact is Putin is extremely popular among the Russian people, as was Castro with the Cuban people.

I for one think they are in a Helluva lot better position to judge than someone whose only exposure to these figures has been the lies and propaganda put out about them by the US government.
Yeah, I've seen the glowing propaganda pieces on RT. They love him. Russians have always loved their strongman leaders whether they like it or not. Or, maybe the "love" is real this time? I don't know, I don't live there. And neither do you.

But, I'm pretty sure of one thing; Our government isn't the only one that lies.
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Old 11-30-2016, 10:00 AM
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Agreed.

However, I would also like to point out the mobs of greedy, sometimes violent Americans pushing, shoving and in some cases beating the shit out of each other over sales prices and suggest that not all is wonderful about our system, either. We have become far too aggressive in our selfish materialism. I like my toys. But, I'm not beating anyone down for a few bucks off a flat screen.
Economic/political systems aren't the problem.
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