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Crushing Christmas: How to Win Every Argument

How-to

Shut down your relatives’ political chit-chat with patent, confusing nonsense.

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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Soon, many of us will head into the cozy crucible that is the extended family Christmas dinner.

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