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You know the feeling. You get into an argument with someone, the two of you are going at each other back and forth, and they get you so riled up that you suddenly can't think of a good comeback until long after the fight is over.

There's actually a French term for this called l'esprit de l'escalier. It describes the feeling you get when you come up with the perfect reply after the fact.

We've all been there. It's devastating.

So let's take a moment and pay our respects to and celebrate the really good comebacks—the ultimate expressions of wit and cleverness. Taken from the appropriately titled subreddit r/MurderedByWords, here are some of the best ways people have ended their disagreements.

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Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism

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"Educate Your Self"

"Educate Your Self"

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That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People

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Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated

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Stephanie Did It
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And polio, measles, pneumonia, diptheria, influenza? Oh and that pesky Bubonic Plague. A healthy gut sure worked there.

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Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember this from a few weeks ago! After all, ii did say I wanted to, given its a brilliant comeback :D

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#8

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

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Jihana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seems like for some people the concept of consent is a pretty hard one to grasp...

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#9

In The Interests Of Public Safety

In The Interests Of Public Safety

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Bye Bye Trash!!

Bye Bye Trash!!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He himself is both a boob and an ass. If he can find a like minded friend they'd make an interesting pair 😂

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#13

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped

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Monday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I ask again...why would they give us FREE microchips with our vaccinations? If they wanted to microchip us you'd better believe they're going to make us pay for it too.

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#14

"I Don’t Understand Marches"

"I Don’t Understand Marches"

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Monday
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does Tomi still have a job? I feel like I could write a bloody book about the moronic things I've seen from her on this website alone...Did she just never learn how to think...or at the very least google...before she speaks/posts?

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Your Bigotry Is Showing

Your Bigotry Is Showing

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Toujin C'Thlu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stuff like this also shows how mentally stuck in the past conservatives are. They honestly think scenes like this will actually scare people as much it scares them.

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#16

America, F**k Yeah!

America, F**k Yeah!

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Foxxy (The Original)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's sad that someone let alone a child needs to do this. This is a government and school funding issue.

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#17

Babies Are Not A Plaything

Babies Are Not A Plaything

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Scagsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Regardless of context, I think the reply was justified. As someone who can't have kids, I am sick to the back teeth of people asking me when and why we don't have kids. Mind your own business.

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$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

$10 To Clean The Bathroom?!

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

7 out of ten dollars? Smh is that really what they think? I pay around 19-21% and get a lot of it back in tax credits. Do you think it's the 'ism' that makes ppl think socialism is communism? We could always try calling it socialocracy

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Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do they not filter out the weirdos who apply to be teachers? Or are they just good at hiding it?

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#22

God Is A White Man

God Is A White Man

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Nikki Sevven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny, I've read the Bible many times, and have yet to come across the chapter and verse where God mandates that white men be in the majority. Anyone?

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J. F.
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, we could take a look around the world and how minorities are treated in countries without "white supremacy". It's still bad, sure and needs a lot of improvement - but being the lesser evil is a good start (my opinion). The overall aggressive discussion from everybody really doesn't help to improve the situation at all

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CatWoman312
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone inform this “Christian” that the people of the Bible won’t white.

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Kathryn Baylis
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fear of Extinction. What these idiots don’t realize is that white males are already a minority. A fast-dwindling minority, that is also quickly losing their power, which they’ve been abusing for millennia, while f*****g up the world with their deadly pissing contests. And they’re terrified because of it. Because Karma.

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Leo Domitrix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did these folks never learn that they were always outnumbered, globally? I mean, seriously....

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Anna Banana
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's funny because 'becoming a minority in their own country' is exactly what happened to the indigenous people of 'your own country'

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Mimi777
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well said!! The arrogance of these people. They’re always so quick to scream about it being their country but isn’t it the current minorities country as well?

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Yort
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also “in defiance of god’s will” I don’t remember the part of the Bible that was about how the white men need to be the majority in the USA.

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Marcia Cash
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

White males are only 31% of the U.S. population. I hate to tell you, Bubba, but you ARE a minority.

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Mewton’s Third Paw
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who has more than 31%? White women maybe. I doubt if white men mind that. White men aren’t minorities. Minority doesn’t mean “less than 50%”

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A Head
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a white male, I have zero problems with becoming a minority. The people who are currently "minorities" seem to have a lot more compassion for others than many of the people like me.

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Mary Bank
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UGH this reminds me of an email my dad sent about how Norman Rockwell's America is over and how the white man is not in power anymore... UM YEAH and about f*****g time.

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Suzanne Haigh
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is the bit about "defiance in God's will" that gets me, what exactly is he saying?

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Just saying
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's a thing, highest levels of church growth are currently in China, so not sure why this guy thinks God has a white supremacist agenda.

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Stan Brooks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are all white Christian conservative males unable to spell correctly?

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Stan Brooks
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't seem like this god of theirs is very potent. I mean he's god so one would think he could make as many white people as he wanted. Maybe he just doesn't really like white people all that much, hmmm?

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you look at the whole world (which is hard for these supremacist morons to do, I know) you will find that white people are already the minority, and yet life has been going just fine for us for centuries.

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I I
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

White supremacy is so retarded , we are and always have been the minority , look around the world , with billions of Asians and billions of POC we are the minority so get a grip ffs

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M Kate McCulloch
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jesus was a bleeding heart socialist. or was he not the one who feed the multitudes, twice on record? Was he not the one who healed people for free? And he got really pissed off at church people who were trying to sell things at their temples - I mean really pissed off...

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Anna Lessens
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And did he not respect women when they came to him, and embarrassed the Pharisees when they tried to punish someone for a sin without being sinless

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David Beaulieu
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I was a person who believed in God (I am not), wouldn't I have to assume the all powerful wants it this way? I mean, if God is all powerful/all knowing, and white men become the minority.. wasn't THAT God's will? Also, I was raised in a strict Catholic house, and at no point did anyone have the hubris/vainglory/pride (a cardinal sin BTW) to assume they know God's will.

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Russian Otaku
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God is a white man tho a white redneck drunk from Florida cause someone else would do better

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Deb Dedon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Becoming a minority? Add "white" women to the demographic of those who don't identify as "white" and he is a member of a minority. And thank goodness for that!

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Damo Lee Park
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what they don't realise is that when their grandfathers decided to "breed the black out of them" they were never going to succeed. you need 1 brown parent to pass on brown genes to the baby. You need 2 white parents to guarantee a white baby. And since having brown skin is freaking awesome, the kids that were meant to be the hope of the white race are now half caste kids who REALLY dislike what their white ancestors tried to do, so they're out there spreading those brown genes around and making damn sure that within 50 years, most people in the world will have some colour to their skin and slightly slanted eyes. it'll be awesome

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Kelly Hartle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humans are about 51% female and 49% male--even without people of color, you're a minority.

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DetongLhamo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s not “monority’, it’s ‘moronity’ and white men ARE a minority group because take away all the white women and hey presto! You are a minority in numbers, at least.

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Alex Hall
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think being a "monority" is so bad. Having mono doesn't make you less of a person, it just makes you a bit lethargic for a few weeks. Being a part of the "moronity," however, is quite a different kettle of willful ignorance.

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okpkpkp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We libs are not making you a minority. But we would if we could.

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Patricia Peel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The author said, "...than a 'monority'..." I think "moronity" is a better fit for those white men.

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elfin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe in supernatural beings, including gods. I especially don't believe in gods that created the world, but are bigoted about skin color and nationality.

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Michael Beswick
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the Bible Gods chosen people are not white men of European descent...

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It’s God’s will is it to have one race elevated above the others? Rather than all he treated the same? You clearly don’t know your Bible, so-called Christian. The Israelites were chosen to follow the commandments of YHWH the God of the Hebrews, and pass them onto the next generation. Because of Abraham and other ‘good’ men God saw. Under Mosaic Law someone being unfair to a foreigner was supposed to be punished; everyone had to be equal. But over time Jews became too focussed on laws, which became oppressive, and not enough on the fundamental principles of helping others and being kind. Hence why there was a ‘new covenant’ in the New Testament, which meant anyone who wanted to serve the Hebrew God could do so and be considered one of God’s people no matter what religion they were brought up in or what country they came from. “A great crowd of every tribe and nation and tongues and people,” “this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth to every nation”.

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Also, some Jews became proud and looked down on other cultures and nations, and were prejudiced and sometimes even cruel. This came from deep rooted superstitions and customs, which were enforced and encouraged by the religious leaders in the 1st century. Instead of the religion being about helping people, it had become a burden. The majority of the old laws were no longer relevant as they were designed to protect the nation when they were nomads and travelled through the dessert. Which is why there was a need for a new covenant, which specifically made the point about treating everyone equally, regardless of where they were from, and also treating women with the same respect as men.

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America Was Not Started By Protestors!

America Was Not Started By Protestors!

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Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard he apparently was breathing air in those two weeks, so hold ur breath and I'll get back to u asap....

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Jeepers Creepers

Jeepers Creepers

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This, right? Taking strangers pics is not very subtle! Especially this well framed, poor dude. Now I wonder about genders reversed: guy taking picture of young woman with such inference? Well if I find that creepy (which I do), then by all logic this is equally as creepy (which it is)

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#27

There's No Vaccination For That

There's No Vaccination For That

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Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr

Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr

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Perry Sologia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid working at a gas station, if the power failed, you cranked it by hand. Lot of years ago, mind

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“We Follow Biblical Rules”

“We Follow Biblical Rules”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The word “homosexual” wasn’t added into the Bible until 1942. Can we not hide behind religion to excuse our homophobia, thank you.

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Can't Say Much, Can We?

Can't Say Much, Can We?

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Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude

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