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Cynthia Paschen's avatar

As a recovering candidate (twice!) I feel this one in my bones.

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E. A. Fareman's avatar

I am always so in awe of how you magically say the thing you really mean in the moment. I get flustered and think of all the right things to say half an hour later. I love this story so much!!

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KSC Hatch's avatar

I was feeling particularly spicy that day. And this guy was *such* a comfortably middle-class white man. I'm usually not so pointed but like, it was early 2017, the U.S. had a new and terrible president, I had been reading the Truth & Reconciliation Report a few days prior, and this guy walks up to me all, "The current government isn't *transparent* and *transparency* is the silver bullet to better politics." and I'm like, is it though?

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E. A. Fareman's avatar

Kicked him right in the theory!

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KSC Hatch's avatar

*snortlaugh*

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