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[–] Lauchs 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because it's a pretty silly take.

It's like seeing a corpse riddled with bullets and "acknowledging" that people die all the time, and as such how can you know for sure it was the bullets that did it?!?

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