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People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.

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Jay Roach
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 14
Cinematographer
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mathew Jay Roach
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