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kpete

(72,022 posts) Thu Oct 15, 2015, 08:37 AM Oct 2015

The End.

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The End. (Original Post) kpete Oct 2015 OP

That cartoon says it all. Humans are unable to do anything but Nay Oct 2015 #1

Except that time we went to the moon... Octafish Oct 2015 #2

Nay

(12,051 posts)

1. That cartoon says it all. Humans are unable to do anything but

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 09:49 AM

Oct 2015

chase short-term irrelevant goals, and will likely go extinct because of that.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

2. Except that time we went to the moon...

Reply to Nay (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 10:04 AM

Oct 2015

...and that time we won World War II...and that time we beat the Depression...

Thanks to the Democratic approach -- using the powers of government to accomplish great things -- we can do it, if we unite and work together.

I don't blame you for the way you see things, Nay. Recent history does show otherwise -- just like the cartoon -- greedheads and warmongers grabbing all they can, as quickly as they can, for as long as they can.

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