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Anti-Debt Group Gets Thoroughly Trolled After Trying To Start A Discussion On Twitter

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"Fix the Debt" just felt Twitter's sweet, trollish wrath.

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Championed by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, Fix the Debt — which The Nation magazine called a "fearmongering campaign to convince Americans that the deficits the United States has run throughout its history have suddenly metastasized" — held a Twitter live chat this afternoon to discuss next steps in America's ongoing fiscal squabble.

And it didn't go so well, with the #fixthedebtqa soon teeming with jokesters and those very much against Fix the Debt's message.

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