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		thisiswrong on Feb 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yaho... Why would they need to do that? The mainstream media's role is to make people politically apathetic and scared of terrorists™.

mindslight on Feb 28, 2014 [–]

Even though the outcome won't make a difference for the general population, the individual parties are still competing against one another for who gets the power for this term.

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