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Congratulations, you’re now on a list.

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Meh, let them put me there and see how uninteresting my life really is. Plus, this statement began “if I had cancer” which I am currently unaware of having. So if I ended up with cancer we caused by weedkillers, then there is a problem, but that’s a highly unlikely situation. Hell, if I had cancer it would be from 20 years of smoking cigs (which I did quit, but it could still happen). And at that point, you can’t really sue the cig companies, not because of law, but the fact that cigs cause cancer is such general knowledge, that it really comes down to personal choice and stupidity to do so… man I miss cigs 😪.

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Me too brother, me too

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You dont miss cigs. You miss nicotine. Nicotine is 7 times more addictive than heroin. Your brain is still wired to crave it.

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Not on a list, but in the crosshairs of fairy-ass internet moderators, which is possibly worse. I fled Reddit to get away from that shit but we aren’t escaping it anywhere, are we?

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I heat Voat is moderator free.

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Cool, I want on too. Ahem: “I would firebomb these fuckers just for the hell of it, no cancer required”.

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Something tells me they already were

Then again this is a left leaning space. Everyone here is on a list.

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A guest list? That’s cool, I don’t get invited to many parties.

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Monsanto spent decades knowingly murdering customers, spent millions hiding their murders, and to this day they won’t even accept responsibility for their murder spree - let alone show remorse.

People have suffered the agony of botched executions for far less than that. There are determined committers of genocide with lower body-counts than monsanto executives.

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You forgot the millions spent bribing lobbying elected officials to protect themselves

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Investigate donations to those MO House members voting for this bullshit. Smells like Bayer Bribes, since this doesn’t benefit the citizens of MO at all.

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They employ a lot of people in the St. Louis area. They bring a lot of high paying jobs to the area and the government likes that.

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heard it here first, boys! Causing cancer is now legitimate business practice, just gotta pay the right(wink) people

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Laughs in asbestos and tobacco… Probably alcohol but they won’t release that study yet.

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Not sure why you are being down-voted. It doesn’t have to be bribes that causes a person to vote some way. Just bringing a shitload of jobs to an area would cause a politician to vote a certain way. Because jobs makes voters happy, and happy voters would vote for that person again, so they stay in power.

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It’s the internet, I did a wrong think. People can’t make corporate America the evil villain if you find a silver lining and it helps someone.

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I got a job for all those people and more.

Building free public housing. And keep doing it until being a landlord isn’t a “job”.

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Good idea.

Blaine Luetkemeyer, Ann Wagner, Emanuel Cleaver, Eric Burlison, and Jason Smith all took $100K+ from insurance corporations for their campaigns.

All republicans. Guess this is what owning the libs looks like.

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How many took under $100k? It never ceases to amaze me how cheap government is to buy. Imagine how cheap it seems to the 1%.

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I think the NRA got Ted Cruz for @ $25,000. At least what is publicly available. I’ve seen as low as $10,000 in campaign donations. Like, that’s not even a new car, to betray humanity.

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There are no words how much I specifically hate Ann Wagner and Jason Smith. Two of the biggest shit stains in this state.

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Try reading Blaine’s FB page and then imagine the only way to be rid of him was his retirement, and knowing he’ll likely be replaced with the same or worse.

Can’t wait to get my family back out of this shithole state. KC, StL, Columbia, and Springfield are ok but the rest of the state are loud and proud white trash MAGATS steadily voting to fuck over the population centers where all the atate funds come from.

This state is so bad the only way we see progress is with ballot initiatives where gerrymanderign can’t defeat the popular vote. And guess what the MO house and senate are working on right now. Yep, making ballot initiatives harder to pass.

Saint Louis has been held back as a city for decades because StL city is in StL county and is prone to the state legislature’s fuckery. Like when StL raised the minimum wage for the city. State blocked it because…they could.

The governmental structure of the City of St. Louis is unusual in the United States. Since 1876, St. Louis has been an independent city, meaning it is not part of any county. St. Louis operates as both a city and a county. St. Louis is the only city in Missouri which operates its own “county” offices. St. Louis is a home rule city, but it is not a home rule county, thus county functions and offices are subject to state restrictions on county governments.

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Remember folks, if you went around giving people cancer they’ll put you in jail. A corporation does it and at most a fine.

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Just form an LLC first and you should be fine then right?

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Just for context, Monsanto is a Missouri native.

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