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Tuesday, 3 September 2019

Time to Revisit an Old Post - The Tyranny of the Majority

Can it really be that three years have passed, nothing has got any better, things seem to be getting worse.
https://teambooklover.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-tyranny-of-majority.html






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