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In that case I hope you enjoy your $10 burgers
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Donald would sooner shoot RFK in the mouth before he let him take away his Big Macs and Diet Cokes. I foresee a policy conflict. Maybe this calls for a Polymarket.
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Threads is so wack. I’ve had my account for two days and I’ve had my account suspended twice. Not even saying hateful shit or anything. Maybe trolling a few MAGA types but whatever. Damn those guys are tightwads.
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Also, if you run Umbrel there’s a Tor Snowflake Proxy app in their App Store. Literally one click and you’re running a proxy. Hardly uses any resources. Everyone with an Umbrel should install that app.
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https://youtu.be/p46AXCtue9c?si=KtY7xUYb3y0iY7A5
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Btw I’m not dismissing your argument at all. After all, I, too am a bitcoiner, so at the very least I take interest in commodity-backed currency. It’s just hard for me to accept Austrian economics and anarcho-capitalism at face value without a healthy dose of skepticism, since we haven’t really seen those things work in modern history. Still, I’ll read the paper you shared
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Nah, inflation does erode un-invested wealth over the years, but it doesn’t evaporate the $30 in a poor person’s pocket faster than they can spend it. Poor people don’t earn enough to accumulate any wealth therefore inflation doesn’t make them poor. The issue is that too many jobs don’t pay living wages or provide adequate benefits.
Yes, inflation does increase the cost of living over time so in that way it’s part of the problem. But imo the real problem is a distorted labor market.
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Never said you should trust me, just saying I’m not surprised you cited a controversial fringe economist with little empirical data to support his theories 😉
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I think the issue is that not enough people can provide enough for themselves to live. We see this today with the number of people living below the poverty line. The wealth gap is too high and, without government intervention, the jobs that people have access to don’t pay well enough for these people to be able to provide food for their families, let alone medical care, let alone a secure retirement. If free market capitalism was working so well, why are we seeing this?
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Figured you would cite Rothbard! I’ll have a look at this. As a guy who majored in this stuff, though, what I’ll say is that there is little evidence that the principles of Austrian economics can work (at least better than the status quo) in a large, late-stage capitalist society like the US, but it is fun to think about how it might look.
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Alright but like… on one side, poverty and death, and on the other, inflation and bureaucracy. I know what I’m choosing.
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I don’t know what you mean. Can you try to be more specific?
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I know it’s going to become insolvent and it will need to be cut. I’m planning my retirement assuming I only get 50% of what I’m entitled to. But there’s a big leap from that to “we should abolish all welfare programs”
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It literally did. Laissez faire government, stock market speculation, unregulated financial industry and income inequality and over-production all contributed to the collapse of the economy. That’s why programs like these exist, and it’s why we haven’t seen anything nearly as severe ever since.
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Bureaucracy is inherently inefficient. But the alternative to some of these more critical welfare programs is people dying poor, sick and hungry. The trade off is that stark. What gets me about this argument is that those that advocate against these programs seem ok with those consequences because it would prevent abuse by a minority of bad actors (which every society has)
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You mean like the America that created the Great Depression?
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I think one of the inherent truths about capitalism is that people can’t provide for themselves. That’s why every functioning capitalist society has social welfare programs. Name one that doesn’t.
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That gets a big yikes from me 😬
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I dunno about that. It’s mathematically true that if Bitcoin ever does become immensely valuable, the wealth disparity between old and new holders will be remarkable. If Bitcoin becomes the global reserve currency and the value 100X’s, there will absolutely be a new ruling class that’s minted, and I don’t know if we’ll all like what that ruling class does.
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I take this to mean you would support cutting social security (your retirement), Medicare (your insurance before you die), veterans benefits (so we can make it worth it for you to put your life on the line for your country)?
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But Trump is a shitcoiner, right? He literally launched a shitcoin.
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Is your point that Bitcoin itself is done? And what are these consequences you speak of?
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Everyone’s a paranoid crypto anarchist until some geriatric orange-colored statist comes along and promises to pump their bags.
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Is oneee more mega-dump too much to ask for? Just down to like $55K or so. Whaddaya say, Bogdanoff? Trying to load my bags
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Now this is an electoral map I can get on board with
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Eh maybe. X is a dumpster fire after Musk bought it so I left that. Threads is one-track. Nostr is 90% bitcoin and 10% alt right stuff. I spend most of my time here but do want to see some decent political discourse sometimes
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I’m a liberal so naturally I’m also on threads. Threads is fine but it’s mostly liberal journalists in my feed. Kinda stale. Mastodon just feels…empty
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Only been there for 10 minutes so might amend the qualifier after a few days
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Mastodon is kind of wack
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Fucking slavery! And it wasn’t even close!
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I always expected Trump to win but damn that was a radical-right landslide.
I mean, California rejected a proposition to ban slavery lmao.
America starting to look a lot like Russia.
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https://youtu.be/bMq1PiUbf-M?si=JOZ-kawU4k8TR_a2
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smh joe you need to kill the baby first before you try to extract its adrenochrome https://image.nostr.build/dddfe85f50af4ebdf49a4a4e9c62ec8b6a49d2a8893561920842235fe5ce8dd2.jpg
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Wiz-with is the way
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A Bitaxe actually did find a block, which is why I figured why the hell not and sprang for a $500 SupraHex with 4+ TH.
I used to mine Vertcoin on my GPU and wished I had the power and noise isolation to mine Bitcoin at home (small apartment life) so I thought it was pretty sweet when these low power, near silent Bitcoin miners came about. My AxeOS dashboard reports I’m pulling about 90W and it’s whisper quiet. Decentralization is fun.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tiny-500gh-home-bitcoin-mining-device-produced-a-block-earning-over-200k-btc
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I was just checking out Ocean to use with my Bitaxe but decided to mine on self hosted solo pool instead. Should I be more seriously considering Ocean? With ~4TH/s I figure I’m better off playing the lottery than getting a few dozen sats every few days…
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Doing some mining lol #bitaxe https://image.nostr.build/429948c4e3b924b60d7c1e192f174fc6b82613e61ac3ffbd5e6f943dfd4aec51.jpg
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Did it work? Someone just paid it lol, might have been you. Here’s a zap anyways.
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https://image.nostr.build/e7effd037f62ce69847754818d5c944c5263e2005ce4cf655444d77364649e82.gif
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Figured. Here’s a zap anyway! ⚡️
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Testing something. Is someone able to pay this 2 sat invoice? Lmk if you get an error or it if works. Will zap back 20X! #asknostr
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Rewind in history, the CIA armed the Taliban because they were fighting Soviet occupation in Afghanistan and the US we trying to keep communism in check at all costs. And then a few short decades later… oopsies, 9/11!
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Now do the Taliban!
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https://media.tenor.com/YA_5fw79XlkAAAAM/yaaas-yes.gif
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You literally just ignored his entire point and made a trite, bad-faith argument that amounts to “reeee I read on the internet that progressives don’t really want progress for *everyone*”
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Conservatives once again prove to be at least 10x better at memesmithery than liberals https://image.nostr.build/61e9c7a810bffd970eb2df8e3c57bc17443ab9ec24f19a674cf24782dc5cf80c.jpg
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Top Golf is so much fun
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1. What
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Paranoid crypto anarchists when you tell them the average bitcoin user doesn’t have the technical chops to manage a high availability system with replication and regional failovers https://image.nostr.build/b11ba52d47f061cd2499782955be222f11a8a7a54434e816149350fb3d74bb70.jpg
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https://image.nostr.build/23a7511af3f48a4b5ced8540aa6518c7cd662df2873038fb42d580175067092d.jpg
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When NWC works it’s pretty dope
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The funniest part is the idea of getting hold of an actual human on the phone at Coinbase
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Ah, you’re an an equal opportunity memesmith then. Respect.
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As a liberal I need to hand it to you guys. Conservative memes have always been spicier.
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Let me give it a shot too: It’s a cartoon duck wearing a hat and sunglasses and smoking a cigarette. I paid the equivalent of $300 for it and now it’s not even worth its face value because literally nobody is buying NFTs anymore.
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Didn’t say they were good learnings lol. Just…learnings
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A cause we can all get behind on some level
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You make a compelling case
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let’s ducking gooo 🦆
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Moadim L’simcha
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I just doubled by default zap to 42 sats. Give me a reason to give you my money.
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We can look to NFTs for learnings. That is to say, creators will make money, but there will also be theft (“right click + save”).
Good content will stand on its own but there’ll be lots of garbage, kind of like how fully 80% of the music on Wavlake was generated by AI with like 30 seconds of work.
Challenge will be how to elevate the good stuff above the rest.
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I think I just developed a brain tumor
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As a guy that falls somewhere on the spectrum between agnosticism and atheism—a “god of the gaps” guy, as a nod to your comment about the hazards of scientism—there’s one thing I know about Catholic priests in particular is that you folks are awfully well read.
Anyway to respond to your question: I dunno really. In general I don’t think things should be illegal because some people misuse them. Not everyone will watch porn and become hopelessly addicted just like not everyone will buy guns and start murdering people. Let those people fail but also let there be strong safety nets to catch them and set them right… be they strong communities, institutions of faith, government programs, or whatever.
Full discourse in case my bias is showing: I do enjoy me some occasional cannabis and pr0n
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Thoughtful response. I suppose I should clarify my original statement of “religious/moral fundamentalists” to “religious fundamentalists and moral absolutists”
Yes there are those that believe drugs and porn should be illegal because God said hedonism is bad
There are others that believe drugs and porn should be illegal because some people use them to ill effect and therefore we should all be forbidden from partaking
Those are the stances I take issue with and I find it interesting that there are so many of those people in the bitcoin community (Bitcoin being a morals-agnostic protocol the very existence of which runs against the grain of the “just legislate it!” impulse)
Anyway at the end of the day I’m more in your camp than those other folks…
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Here you go father https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fundamentalism
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What’s the logic? I mean a lot of the Bitcoin community overlaps pretty hard with religious/moral fundamentalists. Is that the angle?
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Gm. Making the best coffee of my life over here. How’s your day going? #coffeechain https://image.nostr.build/8c82f378b79ec0e443fb42905e40f424eab231bd7e08b2525dd4446dc3972ace.jpg
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Yo nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 I’m trying to connect my Nostr profile but getting this error. I submitted a support ticket about it… halp? https://image.nostr.build/a075deea8e1f7b5f05c83a67bb05752edd69b11a714acc45b98adbc9f49609a8.jpg
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lmao nostr:note1tec9eyvefpp456xahtu6k29dahmhjdd729qvyc2aense39hxmd2qkkst8w
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Oh man, it’s a shitcoin that you can’t even dump on some other sucker?! Diabolical!
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Also not lost on me that these works of fiction all depict a dystopian future. Super fun times ahead I’m sure.
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gm
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Oh for sure. Kid helps empty the dishwasher, unload the groceries etc. and the older he gets the more he can do (he’s only 3). But we don’t want him in proximity of knives or fire and I spend a solid 4 hours cooking per week… that’s the kind of stuff I need to invoke screen time for.
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lol I realize now that the “you” in my thread above was not referring to YOU (one of the few reasonable people in this thread) but the general “you” that comprises all the dickheads up above 😅
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Oh nah I’m just +1ing you. This thread is mostly cancer.
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💯💯💯💯
All this “have a spine” BS is probably from people who either have no kids or are not pulling their weight as parents. Easy to make proclamations.
🫡 people who are disciplined about screen time and put in the work to fill the void. But 🖕people who pass judgment and the leave their wives to pick up the slack.
Btw, dad here with 50% equity stake in my child’s development. My kid is perfectly reasonable. Healthy attachment to TV. When it’s time to turn it off, it goes off without protest. And it’s 100% worth whatever brain rot you think is happening. I get shit done around the house while my kid learns about Mozart and Monet and math and shit from the shows he watches. And then we turn it off and go touch grass. I see no problem with that.
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I reposted it quite early, before a lot of those comments were there. God damn it. Just went back and looked. https://image.nostr.build/61fa7736ab281818e900a81ac220a8ed82a18f44c5cf65d03c0e81084ead9290.jpg
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What’s the nature of this attack? Do I even want to know?
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Oh word? I was hoping the platform was more along the lines of “give black men free cold cards”
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lol I went down the NFT rabbit hole myself and this really does look like some of the most JV mints I saw, except these poor saps won’t even have a shitty jpeg to show for it after the rug gets pulled out from under them 😂
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Forgot about the NFTs lmfao
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I think this is all fine tbh but what the hell does #3 mean
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Oh noooo how could this happen, I was told I would be rich
#shitcoin https://image.nostr.build/94cd2d2f0d37ad2f6a425510fa02e7a326c791eeab72a39acffbfab905fc425b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6ffbd4dd6c855b23720f3dcdd9d1c7566e3c9ed4cd74e7844cd15d5de0c8ed88.jpg
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Or probable future president, ladies and gentleman. A shitcoin shill. https://image.nostr.build/9cfdcc446d1adac9e85470ee034b7a6268d8e935d92cd5bf8a8827a0310849cc.jpg
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Would you have been able to make the switch with a 3 year old? That’s how old my kid is. If I turn my back for two seconds without a screen to entertain him (assuming he even lets me) he’s 100% going to end up with a letter opener in his eye or something
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But like, how do you get anything done around the house without a screen? It’s literally impossible for us to cook, clean and do our basic chores without 1 hour of screen time a day (we’re strict with that limit but damn is it necessary!)
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but muh freeze peach
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Check this out:
If you wear socks at home instead of shoes or going barefoot, you’ll clean your floors just by walking around and chilling.
Follow me for more mind blowing tips!
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.69? Nice.
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Yes.
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Alright but like… your view is that people who show up at a rally in support of your team, who act in ways that you don’t like, are definitely democrat plants
Cool in that case all those looters from the BLM protests who set shit on fire were definitely republican operatives.
Man that was easy, I should do this more
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Nothing about this video does anything to prove that those people were imposters but I did get a good laugh when the other MAGAs soaked them.
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My main beef with nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm #NWC is what I perceive to be fragility. Every time I connect my node, I end up having to reconnect it a day or two later because I think the connection is broken.
But I’m realizing that this might only be partially true.
Say I zap someone via NWC. The zap shows up as pending. Sometimes the zap goes through, but sometimes it doesn’t. I only find out about this by refreshing several times. I don’t see a payment from my node, the zap didn’t work… what gives? NWC must be broken.
But as I’ve been using good old fashioned manual zaps I’ve realized it might not be a problem with NWC! Sometimes when I go to zap someone, my nostr client is unable to get an invoice. This could point to an issue with the node that I’m trying to zap. The zap via NWC might just be failing silently because of that.
I just wish there was a way to get that feedback from NWC. Like, “hey your zap failed because we couldn’t get an invoice, go try that again.” #wishlist
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I mean sure that’s an expected generic jab at “corporate media” or whatever but I’ve personally witnessed people in MAGA hats flying nazi flags the same way I’ve personally witnessed a bunch of yokels in Cooperstown NY flying confederate flags. It happens and it’s stupid.
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Always gets a chuckle out of me when I see people flying a trump flag next to a nazi flag. You know, the flag of the guys that tried to kill us in recent history.
Makes about as much sense as people in the northern US flying confederate flags… which I have also seen.
This is dumb. https://image.nostr.build/a4795981a0bd85c91a99af4bc031c4e286d6d82f93958f346b64b3d4309a027c.jpg
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Makes sense, thank you kitty cat
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Creed was one of those interesting bands that people really hated (myself included) but in hindsight didn’t suck that badly. I own it.
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420
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In some diametrically opposed manner, I would wager.