I Loved The Pretty Dots On This Map … But Upon Further Inspection, I Felt Sick To My Stomach

It’s stuff like this that makes me wanna grab our nation by the shoulders and shake some sense into it. Please, people: Don’t be a blue dot.

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Dec 11, 2013

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