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The Logic of Nightmares and Monsters and Why the Righteous Die for Nothing

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I had a dream…of righteous men and women dying for their dreams… Dying for nothing whatsoever. Freedom…peace… A bullet to the head, self-immolation, screams in the darkness and a left […]

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