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Ecclesiasticus44

3 years

Experts and professionals should be seen as craftsmen in the service of democracy. Liberals think the function of democracy should be for voters to rubber stamp the judgments of experts and professionals.

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4 months

It's like something out of Greek tragedy, he's accidentally become a more absurd character than when he was deliberately playing an absurd character

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They’re losing their minds … quite literally… the derangement syndrome

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The Instagram stories feed of any woman with an advanced degree between ages 30 and 40 is alternating posts about having no control or direction in their personal life and about knowing exactly how society should be governed and everyone else should live

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Yes, capitalists love for people to feel duty bound to particular things rather than desiring unlimited easily disposable options

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The greatest example of class solidarity at the moment is yuppies funding a huge apparatus of makework jobs for other yuppies under the guise of politics and social justice, but they refuse to admit that’s what they’re doing.

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One to store away for when President DeSantis is naming the head of it

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@GarbageApe @jkfecke Laughing racistly

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@jbouie Can’t remember whose joke/observation this is, but Pete is what boomers wish millennials were and Bernie is what millennials wish boomers were

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2 years

While it’s jarring to see some people who were so alarmist about COVID become so cavalier about nuclear war, the common thread is “do somethingism.” People are suffering, there must be something I can advocate for to end that suffering RIGHT NOW, unintended consequences be damned

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LOL, this is so obviously a lie, try hard nerds like Stancil know they’re mostly competing against other white try hards, and adopting this line is just part of being a try hard nerd in the Trump era

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5 years

The stories about the Royal Family using access to Will and Kate to squash reporting on Epstein/Prince Andrew and the Clinton camp trying to kill Weinstein reporting with access to Hillary show why, for all it’s faults, Gawker was so important.

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This is the graphic NPR ran with its “bug-eating conspiracy theory” article. The people on the right are having the obviously correct reaction to utopian schemers.

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MSNBC would have had him on but it would have meant bumping one of the 30 or so former spooks they have on staff

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Lee Fang is on Tucker

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Reading between the lines this was probably the one black kid in the school and the administration is paralyzed about how to handle it

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Jewish teacher resigns after antisemitic harassment from 12-year-old student

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NPR segment on Kanye didn't disappoint. Apparently Black people have been trying to cancel Kanye for years but he was protected because he was advancing white supremacy.

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3 years

Phew, thank god they’re keeping the boy from being radicalized

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2 years

Tell me I’m not the only person who’s never even heard of the apparent 19th greatest TV show of all time

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The most 21st century paragraph ever written.

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The people who control your livelihood having noxious, nonsensical, and constantly shifting rules that they expect you to abide by is a pretty reasonable thing to be alarmed by

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So much about this graphic fascinates me, especially the implication that the rabble is illicitly eavesdropping on the people planning the future. “Oh settle down plebes, we aren’t even talking to you.”

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I’m fascinated by this graph

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It is so poisonous that social media gives such strong incentives to rush the partisan take for a developing story, no matter how many times the full picture ends up being different.

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@BullyMaus “Why do we let people live like this????” Well, for the people actually experiencing, because it’s necessary for the continuation of human life. Otherwise, good question.

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Every progressive non-profit should just merge at this point. What's the reason for having so many if reproductive rights is trans rights is environmental justice is racial justice is economic justice? Would definitely cut down on overhead unless [gasp] the overhead is the point

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Waking up for another day of hard labor in the Alaskan gulag. "I'm really glad cruelty isn't the point."

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“Do somethingism” can be characterized as extreme safetyism in ends and total recklessness in means.

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Imagine thinking “the other side won’t even let kids at the weird costume sex convention” is an argument for your side

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The fact that the furry organizers felt pressured to bar children from the convention is yet another example of how it’s been seen as an attack on LGBTQ rights.

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"Trust the experts" in practice means "trust the consensus of officially-sanctioned experts and suppress all dissent, even from other experts"

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21. Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.”

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The left to libertarian pipeline runs through owning the chuds

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LOL

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@Howlingmutant0 Relax, I counted the asterisks, she’s not talking about you

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I can't remember a better real life analog for Bart Simpson's "I didn't do it" than Sarah Cooper's Trump lip synching. A joke that was pretty funny the first time you saw it, but had a very short shelf life and was just beaten and beaten and beaten into the ground.

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I’m old enough to remember when Donald Trump was supposed to be good for comedy.

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LOL, we were all there in 2016, you can’t get away with “Trump was the worst we feared he’d be!” Yglesias and Bouie thought white mobs would go around beating minorities with impunity. Half the DC press corps was supposed to be jailed. Reckless wars, camps, economic collapse…

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Trump was the worst version of what he was feared to be. Today cements it. The shocking followup is that much of the country’s political establishment - and not just in his own party - have slowly welcomed him back. He’s running again and he’s almost even odds to win.

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It is very strange how deferential progressives/liberals are to the views and sensibilities of the youth. I don’t recall the Times taking a great interest in what smokers thought about smoking bans.

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2 years

Little known fact that if you assault a black person, just chant “Black Lives Matter” three times to remain a white liberal in good standing

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@GOPSPN2 "Woke misanthropy" is a phrase that runs through my head a lot. It was the animating impulse of the dark side of Gawker Media. Find deserving targets and you can be as cruel as you like without being criticized.

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Bro, I majored in fighting the machine at Harvard

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Please submit to Will Stancil at least 25 instances of you denouncing Nazis on Twitter before taking a position on the ramifications of the Cass Report

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Young progressives have constructed a fantasy world where they are protagonists in the most catastrophic, consequential moment in history, and they’re baffled why the actual world keeps going

The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?

From the pandemic to climate change, Americans are still expected to work no matter what happens.

www.vox.com

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When you can’t decide whether it’s more important to be celebrated in 250 years for your analytic brilliance or avenge yourself on Wesley Yang for making fun of you on Twitter

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@BC_Bryson @andraydomise @BenjaminPDixon @posadist_trapgd Have to be careful about upholding unrealistic standards of beauty while we’re dehumanizing people and calling for their extermination

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Boomers grew up under the threat of nuclear war and lived through the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War and draft, urban unrest, stagflation, gas shortages…The idea that the amount of hardship is what’s changing and not our interactions/ways of reacting to it is just wrong

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If you have this view, fine, but you can’t also be angry that people are “allowed” to move to the suburbs and vote Republican. There are either standards of conduct or there aren’t.

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@jessesingal The New York Times, famously responsive to Glenn Greenwald’s critique of the media

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When Obama recommends books like Why Liberalism Failed or Surveillance Capitalism, the message is “I get everything is fucked, but you must understand it’s all far too complicated for me or anyone else to have done a damn thing about it. But isn’t it all terribly interesting?”

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@wesyang If you still listened, you would know the relevant question is not "How is NPR doing?", but rather "How are communities of color and trans people affected by how NPR is doing?"

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@wesyang She hasn’t got the memo on chestfeeding yet

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@jin0x_jin1x Via Wayback machine

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When trying to be inclusive, be sure to use terminology that 97% of the world finds some combination of silly, confusing, and alienating

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@n1kk1m Why we're using 'womxn' No, that's not a typo: 'womxn' is a spelling of 'women' that's more inclusive and progressive. The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional barriers womxn have faced, and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.

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(Things you think about as you pull 8 political mailers out of the mailbox. At least the postal workers and print shop guys are getting a taste too.)

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@jaycaspiankang Last time he scored in a playoff game

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@fxxfy Bureaucratic language shields everyone — bureaucrats, politicians, wonks, academics, activists — from responsibility. Everything is administration and technical knowledge, nothing is choice or values.

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@Sturgeons_Law @GarbageApe Just look at this monster

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@GarbageApe @jkfecke Laughing racistly

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There are few beliefs out there more deluded than that if the media had been MORE explicit in their contempt for Trump it would have made voters LESS inclined to vote for him

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@alternativeted

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@DavidWoycechow2 “no cap” in the letter, and administrators in a very liberal area seeming more concerned with the teacher’s behavior toward the student than vice-versa

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Downthread it becomes clear that the issue is that having kids would involve giving up status symbols

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idk how to put this nicely at all but i can't help feeling that having a baby feels more and more like a fucking status symbol

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Tweet 1: you silly rural cons think we hate you Tweet 2: we hate you because you stupid bigots deserve it

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We’ve convinced younger generations there’s no human condition, only the experiences of intersecting categories. For race, it means thinking one can only connect with art made by the same race. For sexuality, it means anyone who connects with you must have been closeted.

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@praisegodbarbon @BotAdversary I love that Tumblr extremists see attempts to parody them as a challenge to defend the supposedly too-absurd position

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@zlingray @willmenaker “Not reform but abolish. It’s that important to me.” “OK, but how about really really REALLY reform.”

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Libs be like “at every other point in human history the heroes were those who questioned and defied the narratives of the powerful, but now that’s dangerous misinformation and we need to seriously reconsider the whole ‘free speech’ thing”

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@faceyouhate People are so used to having their intelligence insulted by movies that a movie expecting them to bring their own knowledge of Charles Manson to bear on a film is offensive

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@allahliker I wonder if any of the 538 types are factoring in control of state government into their models. The pandemic is giving cover to both greatly expand or greatly contract accessibility to voting, could cause significant swings

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@GarbageApe Someone once described NPR listeners the same way and it helped me put my finger on what bothered me about it. It’s about feeling smart and informed and concerned without feeling obligated to change a single thing about your own life, beyond empowering the right experts

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I bet you don’t even know a single Jew, Mr. Jonah Goldberg

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It’s going to be fascinating in 15 or so years to see how leftwing professors deal with the cognitive dissonance of their only students with college-level literacy being homeschooled or from classical Christian schools

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@willmenaker "We'll do whatever it takes to win your votes. Anything." "We need health care and are drowning in debt." "Hey, do you kids remember Colin Powell?"

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[clutches passenger side grab handle]

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I like how “incel” has just become a term for any dude who doesn’t loudly profess the new orthodoxy. If Henry Cavil is “cel” I highly doubt it’s “in.”

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“Our machines will tell you what information is ok to share” is sure to tamp down conspiracy theories

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We developed a better way to detect conspiracy theories online — and counter their spread:

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@sanrio_pilled My favorite online trope is that Tumblrism has been the norm of human existence only to have been subverted by white Christians in (1700? 1950? 2022?)

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Sorry, but you don’t get to start from “anyone questioning their recommendations is a bad and dangerous person who should be drummed out of polite society” then fall back to “doing their best in an unknown and fluid situation”

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Jewish leaders accepted Ye’s apology, and he will now be allowed to bank again.

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Earlier today I learned that @kanyewest was officially kicked out of JP Morgan Chase bank. I was told there was no official reason given, but they sent this letter as well to confirm that he has until late November to find another place for the Yeezy empire to bank.

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@toad_spotted “Who cares if this revolution in human self-conception emerged from systems designed by power and capital to advance their interests?” the socialist intoned sagely.

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We need well-funded journalistic enterprises with no ambitions of ever having access to powerful people.

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@jessesingal I’m constantly frustrated at how tactics I use and support against my enemies are also used against my friends.

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Hilarious watching people pivot from finding dog whistles in every OK sign and use of the number 14 to “come on guys, be fair, everyone gets one mulligan on a standing O to the SS”

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This clip of Rogan accepting correction with good humor compared to the “OMG fucking OWNED!” spin from partisan hacks is a good insight into why Rogan dwarfs them in popularity.

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Oh my God. Joe Rogan tried to say Biden is unqualified by claiming he said something that TRUMP said. He got fact checked in real time. This is amazing. (h/t @Mediaite )

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The premise here is that leftists have no responsibility for the consequences of the policies they support unless their entire utopian agenda is enacted

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The "urban crime policy" that leftists support is giving every person a good school, good housing, good food, a good job, good mental healthcare, & a supportive, nurturing community. Are these policies in place? If not, kindly shut up about "leftists killed by their own policies"

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Lonely assholes who get off on being waited on, unlike noble city dwellers expecting every need to be met by a low wage worker they don’t have to speak to with a couple swipes on their phone

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My political views in 2016 versus my political views now

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@dwdavison Infinite respect to any debate moderator that does a show of hands question “Are you in Epstein’s book?”

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@youngestwoman The only thing that can get me to Trust the Science is when the alternative is Believing Women

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@wanyeburkett It’s a very Sorkin thing, the conservative stopped dead in their tracks after having their factual errors called out

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The lefties are convening a treats council

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Being skeptical of expertise when the gatekeepers of who gets presented as an expert are millionaires employed by media conglomerates to sell ads for Lipitor is pretty smart, actually

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"All the experts in every field are lying to you" is, to borrow a phrase, the socialism of fools.

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Vox with even stronger incentive than usual to run interference for the Dems to avoid any guilt by association

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“My politically conscious child” might be the tweet genre where it’s hardest to distinguish earnestness from parody

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That’s the good stuff

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This was a real banger from Tucker

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@ByYourLogic Say what you will about Tarantino, but at least when he rewrites history he has Hitler machine gunned in the face. Sorkin’s dream alternate reality is that everything is the same but Wolf Blitzer is smarter

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Nearly all major non-Fox media is geared towards people who are relatively well-educated, relatively affluent, and relatively liberal. During Trump, media perfected how to sell its product to these consumers. Whatever the story, just shoehorn in the following elements:

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You never can tell whether electing Trump means he’ll authorize genocide by Jews or against Jews

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“Blocking blue collar workers from getting to work on time doesn’t seem to be winning us any popular support, any other ideas?”

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@feelsdesperate Uh, can I see YOUR masters in journalism from Columbia?

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@wesyang The frustrating thing is that the people doing this must know that "white privilege" could be called a "Myth" with the same kind of subdivision, they just know that no one whose opinion they care about would undertake the exercise

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This tweet is Gawkerism in a nutshell: mistaking knowledge of which opinions are fashionable with the right and wrong people for intelligence and virtue

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@darth_erogenous

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@ByYourLogic Woke Man’s Burden

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