• tigeruppercut
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    On this week’s John Oliver he ended with a brief segment about messages from people in government positions saying how past protests have encouraged their belief that they were doing the right thing by resisting. Just holding signs won’t fix everything, but it isn’t nothing.

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      100%, but is that actually helpful?

      Our gold is being hoarded away from us and our livestock ravaged every night: we don’t need to encourage the town blacksmith (we’ve tried that - he’s worthless), we need to slay the fucking dragon.