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Does individualism automatically encourage corporations? Is it impossible to have one without the other?

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Re: A quick question

nah
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Only if their sell outs which actively describes humanity now.

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No. Also, moving to General Talk.

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You're a bit power trippy yourself, now, aren't you?

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First time I've used my powahs in... A week? Two weeks? Add that to the fact that it belongs in General.

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no it wouldn't,the only reason it would seem like that,is because america has a fucked up sense of individualism,which is being a sheep.
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Blood Demon Wrote:no it wouldn't,the only reason it would seem like that,is because america has a fucked up sense of individualism,which is being a sheep.
Individualism is actually pretty hard to confuse. People's definition stays the same, but what they think falls into the definition changes.

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