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stopdiggin

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3. I generally have sympathy for people that are genuinely

Reply to applegrove (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 3, 2022, 11:49 PM

Nov 2022

'limited' (i.e., just plain stupid, through no fault of their own). Slightly less for people that are marginally intelligent, and have been somehow 'conned' (where, again, most of the fault probably lies elsewhere). And some remnant (but probably significantly less) for those people that are plenty capable and competent - but have participated in their own 'con', by joining a cult and throwing their fortune on a pyre of 'salvation.'

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Ottawa: Truck Convoy protesters were regularly handed thousands of dollars [View all] applegrove Nov 2022 OP

so - SOME drivers were handed money? stopdiggin Nov 2022 #1

I feel sorry for him. I do. applegrove Nov 2022 #2

I generally have sympathy for people that are genuinely stopdiggin Nov 2022 #3

He was very lonely. That is an old story of getting exploited by a cult applegrove Nov 2022 #4

I reconsider stopdiggin Nov 2022 #5

There were many there who just wanted to communicate with others applegrove Nov 2022 #6