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		staunton 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, jo... The starving peasants in <insert any grassroots regime change, peaceful and/or violent> could afford it, right?

warkdarrior 9 months ago [–]

The trick is to keep the poor people poor, but not too poor. Nothing left to lose and all that...

nickff 9 months ago | [–]

Or else they might rebel like the North Koreans, Cubans, and Eritreans do?

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