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IM SO CONFUSED
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i just visited your existence page and everything on it is on here basically. i dont know is there a forum here you should put links to it on here. i didnt know about it. why not just make one site and make it simple have a anti-school information anti-goverment information and all that stuff on the same page you shouldnt make different websites. its very confuseing. and you should make something like RATS but not RATS because its to narrow. sure schools suck but theres million things worse and to just be a political group about hating schoools is not gonna get that much support. you need to start something like RATS but have revolting against schools a side bar. give your veiw on politics. all politics and make a political party.
08-06-2004 09:06 AM
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existence was originally going to be another site like school survival, just with more general opinions about the world and stuff. hardly anyone visited, so i added the opinions from there to school survival as well so more ppl would see them.

thanks for the RATS ideas... well RATS is dormant at the moment anyways, so it could use some revamping. the reason its just about schools is cause there's so few things like that, compared to lots of political parties and anti-government movements and things like that. besides, its easier to keep it international that way, politics is a very country-specific topic, while schools suck in mostly the same ways everywhere.

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