No need for insults, just because we're not all idealists. People do occasionally conspire, y'know, or there wouldn't need to be laws against it. Corruption really does exist, or there wouldn't be so many people who keep getting caught doing it.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
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