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A conspiracy of one-winged vasts
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Dec 4, 2008
So you're crazy busy (or just plain crazy) with the season's demands, bunky?
Well, it's all the fault of the two different kinds of one-winged
vasts.
On the one hand, you have the vast left-winged conspiracy. "Why do
we have this useless left wing, which isn't enough to let us actually fly?" they ask each other, as if any of the others of their kind could answer the question. They then look over the fence that divides them from the right-winged vasts, and they get angry when they see that these vasts have one right wing each. "You stole those wings from us, give them back!" they tell the right-winged vasts.
The right-winged vasts are indignant. "We are self-made vasts," they reply. "We earned these wings. If you want right wings, you have to earn them, too. In any case, we believe that the reason we are missing our left wings is because the welfare state that you created taxed our left wings away from us and awarded them to us."
"We think you're just selfish," the left-winged vasts exclaim. "Selfish and blinkered and tunnel-visioned. If society was set up properly, government money would be available to give all of us extra wings so we could fly......"
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