Blame is the creed of the disempowered.
We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there__ a simple solution, and it__ wrong.
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We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there__ a simple solution, and it__ wrong.
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