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Colorado

Runningdawg

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1. This country has 2 extremes. Lock up everyone or lock up no one.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Dec 27, 2018, 05:05 PM

Dec 2018

In 1970 you could be committed if you were gay or admitted to doing LSD. In 2000 you needed to have made several serious attempts at killing yourself, or threats against someone else and now....here we are.

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This country has 2 extremes. Lock up everyone or lock up no one. Runningdawg Dec 2018 #1