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		benvanderbeek on Aug 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The White House just open sourced their first Gith... "you can choose the left or the right lane of the conveyor belt to the butcher house." I am going to use this phrase, thanks.

thinkingisfun on Aug 24, 2012 [–]

Feel free. I wish it wasn't true, you know.

erichocean on Aug 27, 2012 | [–]

I like yours.

I generally use the example of a slave given sudden democracy: now they can vote which of two slave owners they want to be a slave to.

Vote, no vote: they're still a slave.

Sometimes, "choice" doesn't matter at all.

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