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Is Taylor Swift our greatest living poet-philosopher?

Consider her latest album, Red. In it, she discourses on th...
Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease
  03/24/13
"She is both Socrates and Diotima, Dante's Beatrice and...
Exhilarant Carmine Puppy
  03/24/13
This is good. Where did you steal it from?
Blue angry market hominid
  03/25/13
I think he stole it from American Psycho, the book. I haven...
bat shit crazy up-to-no-good turdskin international law enforcement agency
  03/25/13
I was loosely parodying the Whitney Houston chapter for tone...
Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease
  03/26/13
180
Lemon Low-t Jew Gunner
  04/04/14
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embarrassed to the bone nudist half-breed theatre
  11/15/16
Who did she break up with this time?
Naked Pocket Flask
  03/24/13
all of her bfs dump her because she's a frigid dyke
Sinister Library Goal In Life
  03/24/13
lol have you seen the dudes she dates? Frigid dyke isn't th...
Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease
  03/24/13
What's the problem then?
frum therapy
  07/04/13
This is pure speculation of course but I'm going with roast ...
bronze quadroon
  04/04/14
Talk to your kids about UGLY VAGINA
Zombie-like parlour mood
  04/04/14
yes brother, she was the first human being to genuinely unit...
maroon water buffalo
  03/24/13
That contribution can't be underestimated. She certainly ha...
Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease
  03/24/13
...
Concupiscible chrome office circlehead
  03/24/13
lol what
chestnut partner
  03/25/13
poetry and philo are mutually exclusive, hth
stimulating orchestra pit hairy legs
  03/25/13
Fuck off, Socrates. You couldn't even troll Thrasybulus wit...
Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease
  03/26/13
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Cobalt fat ankles stock car
  07/04/13
I realize this is not serious, but she honestly is the most ...
black swollen useless brakes faggot firefighter
  03/25/13
She's not a talented songwriter. All of her songs fit the ba...
ruby hairraiser brunch dragon
  03/26/13
hey guess what songwriter =/= lyricist
coral free-loading yarmulke hall
  04/30/13
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coral free-loading yarmulke hall
  03/25/13
I see now that you are Estrada.
Bateful Public Bath Chad
  03/25/13
bad read imo.
Multi-colored hateful shitlib
  04/04/14
180
Lavender odious den
  03/26/13
one hundred and eighty
Swashbuckling Twinkling Uncleanness Incel
  03/26/13
bump
Exhilarant Carmine Puppy
  04/13/13
op needs to do kendrick lamar's album
Dashing gay wizard
  04/13/13
...
Lemon Low-t Jew Gunner
  04/04/14
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1dpph8/is_taylor_...
Exhilarant Carmine Puppy
  05/05/13
easily
rambunctious crystalline school cafeteria pistol
  05/05/13
bump
Exhilarant Carmine Puppy
  06/29/13
much deserved 180
maize station affirmative action
  06/29/13
...
Exhilarant Carmine Puppy
  07/03/13
have a good life, millenials
Red hissy fit
  07/03/13
killself
turquoise bearded indirect expression potus
  07/03/13
go away peter
orchid yapping church building
  07/03/13
go away peter
orchid yapping church building
  07/03/13
lol jewel pwns her in every way
medicated locus prole
  07/04/13
BAM! Blowjob from Taylor or Jewel. Who do you choose?
Cobalt fat ankles stock car
  07/04/13
that's a tough q probably jewel
medicated locus prole
  07/04/13
180
fear-inspiring old irish cottage place of business
  12/26/13
180
Milky big-titted chapel sound barrier
  03/28/14
lana del rey hth
flatulent vivacious lay mad-dog skullcap
  03/28/14
Joanna Newsom or gtfo
hideous maniacal fortuitous meteor
  04/04/14
...
Milky big-titted chapel sound barrier
  04/04/14
nice poast, man
pea-brained keepsake machete rigor
  04/04/14
180 and "the deceptive audacity of REO Speedwagon"...
hideous maniacal fortuitous meteor
  04/04/14
...
blathering death wish
  04/04/14
op is bob woodward pu right? pure scholarship
Multi-colored hateful shitlib
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Poppy corner striped hyena
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Purple Racy Meetinghouse
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Plum insane crackhouse preventive strike
  10/01/15
Fuck me I love threads like these.
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  10/01/15
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jet-lagged jap factory reset button
  01/10/16
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Sable kink-friendly whorehouse boistinker
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  05/27/16
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Exhilarant Carmine Puppy
  11/14/16
...
Khaki Abusive Range
  11/14/16
Just imagine Patrick Bateman going through this entire spiel...
offensive lodge toaster
  11/15/16
S/T to Red may be the greatest 4-album compendium of emo lyr...
fragrant fishy skinny woman friendly grandma
  11/15/16
...
fragrant fishy skinny woman friendly grandma
  08/10/17
I could read these all day everyday
180 scarlet regret hell
  11/15/16
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brindle kitty cat
  08/25/17
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Splenetic startled coldplay fan
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  11/03/19
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Purple Racy Meetinghouse
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brindle kitty cat
  01/01/21
Great insight into a mind of a psychopathic schizo, thanks
vermilion charismatic depressive senate
  01/01/21


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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:31 PM
Author: Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease

Consider her latest album, Red. In it, she discourses on the five traditional branches of philosophy: metaphysics ("Everything Has Changed"), epistemology ("I Knew You Were Trouble"), logic ("Begin Again"), aesthetics ("Sad Beautiful Tragic"), and ethics ("We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"). But she invigilates these categories ruthlessly in her opus on the futility of human action ("I Almost Do"), her paean to faith against reason ("State of Grace"), and her enigmatic Socratic dialogue on Western decline ("The Last Time", featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol).

Just as Bob Dylan used his nasal whine to focus our moral attention on the everyday details of life, like race riots and police shootings, Taylor Swift uses her flinty, almost Canadian voice to assure us that her songs are trite morality plays, artifice based in part on a true story. Without either the utopian simplicity of The Eagles or the deceptive audacity of REO Speedwagon, she needs the mask of biographical incident to disguise the disturbing implications of her radical skepticism. Does she believe the world floats on the back of a turtle? Who knows? We'll have to wait for the Playboy interview.

Taylor Swift's artificiality is not unique in pop music. She plays America's fag hag, just as Justin Beiber plays an eternally molested child, right down to his milksop Christianity, and Nicki Minaj confirms every stereotype about transgendered prostitutes from Queens. These archetypes give us a means of confronting the confusion and despair of post-industrial life. We have strangled the last king with the entrails of the last priest, but we still want authority and we still want absolution. Enter Taylor Swift, herself innocent yet confessional, forgiving every deviance yet relentlessly preserving them for the record in surprisingly catchy tunes. She is both Socrates and Diotima, Dante's Beatrice and Milton's Uriel.

So, to answer the question which motivates this poast: is Taylor Swift our greatest living poet-philosopher? No, that's probably Michael Sandel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22873831)



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Date: March 24th, 2013 10:07 PM
Author: Exhilarant Carmine Puppy

"She is both Socrates and Diotima, Dante's Beatrice and Milton's Uriel."

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22875404)



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Date: March 25th, 2013 4:15 PM
Author: Blue angry market hominid

This is good. Where did you steal it from?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22878953)



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Date: March 25th, 2013 4:17 PM
Author: bat shit crazy up-to-no-good turdskin international law enforcement agency

I think he stole it from American Psycho, the book. I haven't read the book in years but an entire chapter was written about Whitney Houston. I would be surprised if OP replaced Whitney Houston and Whitney Houston song's with Taylor Swift and Taylor Swift songs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22878961)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 3:05 AM
Author: Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease

I was loosely parodying the Whitney Houston chapter for tone, but it's not exactly the same.

Here's the chapter, btw.

http://www.whitney-fan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4434

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22882086)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 2:40 PM
Author: Lemon Low-t Jew Gunner

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25322967)



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Date: November 15th, 2016 10:25 AM
Author: embarrassed to the bone nudist half-breed theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#31913521)



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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:33 PM
Author: Naked Pocket Flask

Who did she break up with this time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22873849)



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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:35 PM
Author: Sinister Library Goal In Life

all of her bfs dump her because she's a frigid dyke

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22873855)



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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:42 PM
Author: Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease

lol have you seen the dudes she dates? Frigid dyke isn't the problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22873907)



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Date: July 4th, 2013 1:33 AM
Author: frum therapy

What's the problem then?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23543747)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 10:28 AM
Author: bronze quadroon

This is pure speculation of course but I'm going with roast beef curtains.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25321488)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 10:33 AM
Author: Zombie-like parlour mood

Talk to your kids about UGLY VAGINA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25321512)



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Date: March 24th, 2013 6:55 PM
Author: maroon water buffalo

yes brother, she was the first human being to genuinely unite analytic and continental philosophy. greatest SCHOLAR of our age!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22873968)



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Date: March 24th, 2013 9:44 PM
Author: Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease

That contribution can't be underestimated. She certainly has been cucked enough times to qualify as a premier intellectual.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22875202)



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Date: March 24th, 2013 10:04 PM
Author: Concupiscible chrome office circlehead



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Date: March 25th, 2013 4:23 PM
Author: chestnut partner

lol what

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22878983)



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Date: March 25th, 2013 4:23 PM
Author: stimulating orchestra pit hairy legs

poetry and philo are mutually exclusive, hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22878988)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 2:55 AM
Author: Dull apoplectic location mad cow disease

Fuck off, Socrates. You couldn't even troll Thrasybulus without breathlessly quoting Aeschylus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22882072)



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Date: July 4th, 2013 1:30 AM
Author: Cobalt fat ankles stock car



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Date: March 25th, 2013 4:25 PM
Author: black swollen useless brakes faggot firefighter

I realize this is not serious, but she honestly is the most talented song-writer/singer to come along in a long time. Some of the stuff she's done that is not even well known is pretty brilliant, e.g.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzJlpnBaJyw

She's still a very flawed person, but her talent is off the charts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22878995)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 8:28 AM
Author: ruby hairraiser brunch dragon

She's not a talented songwriter. All of her songs fit the basic template of "rowdy rebellious teen" "wistful ex lover longing for *home*,"hopeful lover," and "nostalgic youth longing for even more youth." They're tropes in pop music that she and her team are clever enough to exploit. Doesn't make her a talented song writer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22882297)



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Date: April 30th, 2013 9:59 PM
Author: coral free-loading yarmulke hall

hey guess what songwriter =/= lyricist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23110207)



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Date: March 25th, 2013 4:37 PM
Author: coral free-loading yarmulke hall



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Date: March 25th, 2013 4:37 PM
Author: Bateful Public Bath Chad

I see now that you are Estrada.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22879054)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 1:45 PM
Author: Multi-colored hateful shitlib

bad read imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25322525)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 5:17 AM
Author: Lavender odious den

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22882175)



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Date: March 26th, 2013 8:37 AM
Author: Swashbuckling Twinkling Uncleanness Incel

one hundred and eighty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22882306)



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Date: April 13th, 2013 3:15 AM
Author: Exhilarant Carmine Puppy

bump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22988737)



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Date: April 13th, 2013 3:38 AM
Author: Dashing gay wizard

op needs to do kendrick lamar's album

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#22988776)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 2:41 PM
Author: Lemon Low-t Jew Gunner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25322979)



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Date: May 5th, 2013 12:17 PM
Author: Exhilarant Carmine Puppy

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1dpph8/is_taylor_swift_our_greatest_living/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23137712)



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Date: May 5th, 2013 12:39 PM
Author: rambunctious crystalline school cafeteria pistol

easily

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23137813)



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Date: June 29th, 2013 5:12 PM
Author: Exhilarant Carmine Puppy

bump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23503332)



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Date: June 29th, 2013 5:26 PM
Author: maize station affirmative action

much deserved 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23503409)



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Date: July 3rd, 2013 12:26 AM
Author: Exhilarant Carmine Puppy



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Date: July 3rd, 2013 12:30 AM
Author: Red hissy fit

have a good life, millenials

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23528464)



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Date: July 3rd, 2013 12:31 AM
Author: turquoise bearded indirect expression potus

killself

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23528471)



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Date: July 3rd, 2013 9:34 PM
Author: orchid yapping church building

go away peter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23541761)



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Date: July 3rd, 2013 9:34 PM
Author: orchid yapping church building

go away peter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23541762)



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Date: July 4th, 2013 1:29 AM
Author: medicated locus prole

lol jewel pwns her in every way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23543730)



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Date: July 4th, 2013 1:31 AM
Author: Cobalt fat ankles stock car

BAM! Blowjob from Taylor or Jewel. Who do you choose?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23543737)



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Date: July 4th, 2013 2:34 AM
Author: medicated locus prole

that's a tough q

probably jewel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#23543981)



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Date: December 26th, 2013 6:35 PM
Author: fear-inspiring old irish cottage place of business

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#24716751)



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Date: March 28th, 2014 11:33 AM
Author: Milky big-titted chapel sound barrier

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25277665)



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Date: March 28th, 2014 11:38 AM
Author: flatulent vivacious lay mad-dog skullcap

lana del rey hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25277687)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 10:24 AM
Author: hideous maniacal fortuitous meteor

Joanna Newsom or gtfo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25321472)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 10:21 AM
Author: Milky big-titted chapel sound barrier



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Date: April 4th, 2014 10:27 AM
Author: pea-brained keepsake machete rigor

nice poast, man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25321486)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 10:30 AM
Author: hideous maniacal fortuitous meteor

180 and "the deceptive audacity of REO Speedwagon" would be a great moniker.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25321498)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 1:33 PM
Author: blathering death wish



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25322449)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 1:44 PM
Author: Multi-colored hateful shitlib

op is bob woodward pu right? pure scholarship

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#25322523)



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Date: April 4th, 2014 3:09 PM
Author: Poppy corner striped hyena



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Date: September 12th, 2015 3:18 PM
Author: Purple Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: October 1st, 2015 5:28 AM
Author: Plum insane crackhouse preventive strike



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Date: October 1st, 2015 6:06 AM
Author: balding marvelous spot filthpig

Fuck me I love threads like these.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#28874117)



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Date: January 10th, 2016 8:26 PM
Author: jet-lagged jap factory reset button



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Date: May 27th, 2016 2:02 AM
Author: Sable kink-friendly whorehouse boistinker



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Date: May 27th, 2016 2:06 AM
Author: mauve boyish philosopher-king



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Date: November 14th, 2016 6:40 PM
Author: Exhilarant Carmine Puppy



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Date: November 14th, 2016 6:56 PM
Author: Khaki Abusive Range



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Date: November 15th, 2016 10:25 AM
Author: offensive lodge toaster

Just imagine Patrick Bateman going through this entire spiel while playing a "I Knew You Were Trouble", just before he brutally murders people. What I'm saying is it's time for an American Psycho remake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#31913515)



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Date: November 15th, 2016 10:32 AM
Author: fragrant fishy skinny woman friendly grandma

S/T to Red may be the greatest 4-album compendium of emo lyricism of all time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#31913586)



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Date: August 10th, 2017 12:55 PM
Author: fragrant fishy skinny woman friendly grandma



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Date: November 15th, 2016 10:34 AM
Author: 180 scarlet regret hell

I could read these all day everyday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#31913602)



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Date: August 10th, 2017 12:53 PM
Author: Crawly glittery mother kitchen



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Date: August 25th, 2017 2:38 PM
Author: brindle kitty cat



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Date: August 25th, 2017 2:41 PM
Author: Splenetic startled coldplay fan



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Date: November 3rd, 2019 9:30 PM
Author: brindle kitty cat



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Date: April 18th, 2020 5:46 PM
Author: Purple Racy Meetinghouse



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Date: January 1st, 2021 5:36 PM
Author: brindle kitty cat



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Date: January 1st, 2021 5:44 PM
Author: vermilion charismatic depressive senate

Great insight into a mind of a psychopathic schizo, thanks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2213084&forum_id=2#41658323)