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Pretension

You're no different, just the same old thing. You built your success on the backs of slaves and women. Just like Greece, just like Rome. You're no different, you delude yourself to think you are morally superior, as you maim and you kill, just like Greece, just like Rome. You're no different, you expect praise for the things you've stopped doing, after a thousand atrocities done in your name, just like Greece, just like Rome. You're no different, a hundred headed hydra, driven by greed, you'd sell your own people, your own mother even, if it turned up some coin, Just like Greece, just like Rome. You're no different, remembered by millions for the damage you deny. Your history will be told in another era. You won't like what you hear. Just like Greece, just like Rome.

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Date: 3/24/2016 8:44:00 PM
It's hard but the plane truth.
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