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Jamie Persky's avatar

In the movie of his life, this would be perfect and smart, in real life, my concern is he doesn’t actually think he did anything wrong. He’s a sociopath. If he was smart, he would do this, but….

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Alexander Waugh's avatar

And I'll add I don't have any edits, you nicely play to ego in parts. Of course it's just a dream, but it's nice to imagine the person who perhaps most represents take no prisoners rugged individualism concede the toll self serving lies can have on the country. There's a line in Chernobyl that goes "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid." In this case, how nice would it be that the source of the lies pays the debt.

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