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...not to mention the part the US played in the Congo Crisis of the early '60's during which time we orchestrated the assassination of their democratically elected president in order to install Joseph Mobutu, who spent the next 30 years pillaging the country's resources while cooperating with US and Belgium corporate interests in exchange for financial aid - which he also kept for himself - while the people of his country starved. Nice.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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