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Oakland native,world traveller, lifelong raver, dad/husband. Massive cricket fan. Old school liberal. Results over ideology. #nafo

Sonoma County, CA
Joined August 2007
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@wilson_abriana She was seen as an outsider- something that *might* threaten the status quo. She spent a ton of time on African issues, and she had a special connection there. And she passed this down to Harry; let's just say that there's no surprise he married a Black woman. Not William; Harry.
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@kayaoakes Ya know, I’m normally happy being my snarky atheist self. Until dude says things like this.
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@JoshRaby But aside. End of the day, many, many of these $7.25 employees risked their lives every day during this pandemic, so that the country could actually function. Meanwhile, billionaires got obscenely richer. So a big, massive Fuck You to anyone opposing raising the wage to $15/hr.
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6 months ago, a friend of mine that in SF that moonlights driving Uber was robed for nearly $650 at gunpoint downtown. He filed a report, and figured that would be it. Today an SFPD detective called him and said the DA was pressing felony charges against the found assailants. 1)
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@trappychan_ So....Exxon and Guyana want to do a deal together. Venezuela doesn't like that. So Venezuela is threatening to invade. But somehow the US is an aggressor?
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@emmanuelfelton She worked at the 4 Seasons, thought you were homeless and sent security to your room? So you have her name, and this is on camera, right? Yeah, this didnt happen.
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@MichaelJStern1 @MeidasTouch @SarahHuckabee Leigh Sales, from ABC Australia. This is par for the course for Aussie journalists, especially the ABC. Part of it's a cultural thing- authority needs to be questioned. But mainly, as a rule they're just super competent.
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@iamharaldur Look at the sheer number of GOP pols that get caught in secret gay relationships. Sheer projection.
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@SenMullin You're seriously complaining about gas bills after buying a Ford F-250 Diesel? That's like complaining that you're drunk after downing a pint of vodka.
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@MollyJongFast Fox News becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Smartmatic Voting machines. What I wanted from 2021.
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@APTPaction He literally pointed a gun at police- it's a clear shot, on camera. Would you rather he'd been allowed to pull the trigger?
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London Breed has just raised the standard for how to deal with the antisemitic left in California. Bravo.
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⬇️ My statement on the Board of Supervisor’s Gaza ceasefire resolution:
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@DI_GM42 @ASLuhn No it most definitely does not.
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@ShilohTaylor33 @RepDWStweets Because identifying rape is Islamophobic?
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@wartranslated It’s winter. She comes at him barefoot in a bathrobe. A bathrobe. He’s an armed soldier. He talks back and she moves forward. These people are not like others.
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@LunarWitchhh @url_dream @OfficialMr_Tib @gayblackvet So was Australia, South Africa, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Canada, Namibia, Ethiopia, Congo, Uruguay, Paraguay, and many more.
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@endlessMarx Is there a reason why your mom refuses to turn the heat on in your basement?
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@PhuzzieSlippers @ElizabethARose Can I just go off the subject a bit? I don’t know how some of you all deal with 1) knowing about this 2) then dealing with the day to day legacy of it, and then 3) a white population that disregards all of it. Respect for just being able to deal. I’m not sure that I could.
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Now they turn off Comments. When it's come out that the murderer should be in prison had the DA not dropped his case in November.
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“I assured them that my office will do everything within the confines of our legal power to make sure the men we believe, the man we believe, shot and killed Officer Le, will spend the rest of his life in prison” #DAPamelaPrice #AlamedaCountyDistrictAttorney #OaklandCA
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@hayxtt Lol remember when they rioted over this?
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@BradfordLee87 @nolanwpeterson The US guy didn’t take credit at all. Instead he’s giving credit where it should be given- to the Ukrainians.
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@cheerfulclips Is this kid a spirit reincarnated? I’m asking very seriously.
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@rcarr57 @wilson_abriana And too many of them were awful to Meghan.
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So lemme get this straight. If you get a real DA in office, start methodically kicking progressives off the Board of Supes and party leadership, and kneecap the Police Commission, crime goes down?
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San Francisco: In the first quarter (Jan 1-March 31) of 2024, property crime is down 32% and violent crime is down 14% compared to the first quarter of 2023.
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@ArmandDoma That account is a complete meshing of the far right and far left.
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@Hebro_Steele So this person is a faculty member? Does she consider her white students to be "burdensome"?
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@MaxPowerMtl @Noahpinion Whoa whoa whoa. There was absolutely *zero* connection between 9/11 and Iraq. The Bush hawks just saw that as a way to justify invading, so they pushed that lie. So sure, there was a premise. It was as fake as Russia's.
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@ZZZZZZZZZZZack Unfathomably antisemitic. Unreal to see this being said.
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@thenickshephard @SMB_Attorney @rebelrebel61 Oh Jesus Christ. “Bro I sold my first box of chocolates door to door on Saturday afternoon. That’s kinda the same as enterprise cloud security”.
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@DenbySister @nadinebh_ @imrticulat He's a testament to how men grow up, and how we become better with age and especially, family.
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@H0rr0r101 @GadSaad @Concordia I’m sorry, but you’re not a victim. You did something utterly repulsive, you got caught, and now you get to actually live with consequences which your parents obviously never taught you how to deal with.
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@joepuisto @laborgiant Whatever Eurovision.
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@Hebro_Steele @Stanford @joboaler It's horrendously bad, but she's also been getting pummeled lately by the UC Faculty. Her game is up.
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@TerryWatkinsJr1 We all *thought* that he did it. But the defense did good enough to create a reasonable doubt.
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@sentdefender UKR has a tiny amount of Neptune missiles. But when they do use them, they take out the flagship using two when at least 4 should be needed. Par for the course. Ukrainians are the most underestimated people on the planet.
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@Jaaavis What’s honestly *not* funny is that there’s a doctor out there lying his face off. Garbage like this sometimes finds its way into government policy, and then you end up with 2 million people in prison because of it.
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@DrMikeStanton @nhannahjones So your take is that academics of color cannot pursue positions of power without being serial academic thiefs?
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@mattyglesias My family's happier and closer. My young sons don't remember when their parents left all day.
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San Francisco sees a 51% drop in car burglaries after it starts trying to arrest the thieves. How many years, billions of dollars, reputations, damage, disruptions to victims lives could’ve been saved if we’d kept enforcing the law.
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San Francisco car break-ins drop steeply, officials claim
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@CoriBush She's endorsing people that are, and that's more than enough.
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@canarymission @lsarsour She’s right! We’re watching! So stop testing down posters!
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@YousefMunayyer Hamas needs to surrender.
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@IAPonomarenko We knew this two years ago. And we knew this two years ago because Finland, who's known them for much longer, told us so.
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@MLNow Because absolutely no one would possibly suggest that the supes did it to themselves, right?
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@rcbz1994 Oh lord. The world is not "burning". Do you honestly think that it literally hasn't always been chaotic? In nearly every measure, now is the best time to ever be alive. But scream more.
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@Noahpinion Russia is behind Iran, which is behind Hamas, and the apples don’t fall far.
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2) By no means would this have happened under Chesa. These were known perks with lengthy rap sheets, most of which was accumulated under him. Brooke is bringing results. But more than that- *we* brought results. She’s there because of you, me, and everyone else involved in
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@sfdefender @SFDAOffice Why on earth is the SF Public Defender reposting an antifa account!?
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@michelletandler @unionstreetsf So because someone decided to work in public service, they need to sacrifice the ability to be able to afford to live in SF? Or wait- is it because public servants just aren’t important people?
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@ju_sung_lee It's not really your fault. Gen Z can lay down cuts like no other generation in history. I recently asked a teenager if he was on Reddit. His response? "No. I'm not a school shooter."
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6% of these students are proficient in math, 12% in English. This is not the worst part of Oakland, and it’s where I would’ve gone. That is an emergency. That is denying these children an opportunity to compete, advance, grow. It is damn near criminal that this is allowed to…
@Oaklandside
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Westlake Middle School students held a walkout today to call attention to what they view as Oakland Unified's suppression of discussions about the Israel Palestine conflict in schools. 📹by @ashleynmcb who is following the student march today.
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@kkhayyam1 @Noahpinion By maximizing human potential. Example: this app is owned by an American immigrant. This phone is made by a company run by a gay American (which would *totally* be accepted in Muslim countries).
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@H0rr0r101 Yeah, the groups that you’re looking for include Hamas and various Nazi offshoots. Go find them and tell them your preferred pronouns!
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@visegrad24 Another old school Dem. He's badass.
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@DeanPreston Lyft is a local company that does a damn good job here. No need for this.
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@michaelharriot Also extremely beloved by an entire generation, and thoroughly trusted because he made learning warm and comfortable and fun. And isn’t that what Jeopardy is about?
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@deedydas Remember when Zuck basically admitted that they were listening to our iPhone conversations?
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@metzgov We all see you. Once again, DSA shows its racism.
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@WaldameerForev @sbstryker She's more of a moderate now to reflect the views of her constituency. She was a liberal bomb thrower in the state legislature.
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Wow. The SF Opposition is on a pace to completely wipe the slate. A near total Progressive wipeout.
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Wow. This pretty much confirms that progressive San Franciscans have finally wised up and have dumped their @TheLeagueSF NIMBY regressive voter guides straight into the trashcan like I did years ago. Girl, bye! Time for progressive who actually want progress!
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Anyone think it's weird that the student protesters: 1) Have expensive North Face tents just laying around their dorm rooms, ready to go. 2) Have no visible alcohol, anywhere.
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@Jeffdc5 Never heard of them being angry before. That’s new.
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@wyntermitchell And he had a whole crew of dancers doing the Crip Walk!
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One more time, Progressives. When you create conditions where organized theft rings look to attack areas far outside the cities, you create situations where voters will vote tough on crime for decades.
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Trapped in an underwater tunnel, a man in a baclava with roams the train attacking passengers with a meat cleaver.
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@C00P3R_0 @60Minutes A whole lot of these problems are caused by armed conflict and organized crime. We provide the guns and the demand for the drugs.
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@yaelbt Examples of why Israeli women are just fierce.
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@Noahpinion @ArmandDoma A bit deeper. The oil dependence crowded out any domestic industries, so everything was imported, leaving them more exposed to hyperinflation. The country is the furthest thing from self-sufficient.
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@MrOlmos Why am I smiling?
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This man was a hero, and Home Depot should take care of his family for eternity. People actually caring is what makes communities. God help us if Pam Price doesn't throw every book at the murderers.
@henrykleeKTVU
Henry K. Lee
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A @HomeDepot worker died after he was shot while trying to stop a theft, per @pleasantonpd . Suspects’ car spotted on I-580 in Castro Valley by @ACSOSheriffs deputies - and plane ALCO 2 - and chased to Ney & Partridge in East Oakland, where they’re taken into custody
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@amyliztweets God, and especially NYC in the Spring. It’s perfect.
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@rcarr57 @wilson_abriana It's just really interesting that one son (who was always known as a little shit) seemed to get all the appeal of his mom, while the other (who was the gentleman) followed his dad, completely.
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Yes, they’ll be arrested for this. And some lefty lawyer is currently telling them that this is no big deal; they’ll ne out of jail in a couple of hours and won’t face charges. Which is true. But as someone that’s been in this position, lemme tell you exactly what happens: It…
@IsraelWarRoom
Israel War Room
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#BREAKING : Anti-Jewish protesters scale security fence around White House
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@HuXijin_GT CIA only used blinking red lights though.
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90% of the time, the SF Chronicle is a garbage, one-sided excuse of a news source that has some responsibility for our local gvt being the state that it's in. Today they could well earn a Pulitzer. This is the best work I've seen them publish in decades.
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@SavageJoyMarie1 Anyhoo. Anyone having pizza for lunch?
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@url_dream @OfficialMr_Tib @gayblackvet No- the US is not *that* much worse than most. Show me the country, for the most part I'll show a dark, clouded over history.
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For 28 years, Barbara Lee didn’t really accomplish much. Was never challenged in an election. And now when she actually needs to compete and show a track record and show competence, she plays the only card she has, and no one is buying it this time. Times. Have. Changed. The…
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@asymmetricinfo Oh, spare me. Nobody forced her to ride stolen academic ideas to fame. No one made her stay on as president *after* the allegations were uncovered.
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@Edsall @maggieNYT Yeah- im done hearing about these people.
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Nothing to see here, except the @sfchronicle claiming that for the betterment of the community, employees should be forced to work in unsafe working conditions.
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Remember, In-N-Out isn't some benevolent institution. It’s a fast food chain driven by profit goals. If In-N-Out’s primary concern is the well-being of the communities it serves, it wouldn’t be leaving.
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@jowyang @bencasnocha He then suggested a fireside chat, but the Prodigy complained to the union because they weren’t contacted prior to the fire being started.
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@rafnlaw @MaraGay Hebrew tribes have been there for 3,000 years and were colonized by Arabs. I agree- let the indigenous people have their land.
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@lindayaX Yeah, this isn’t the problem. Your boss affirming antisemitic comments is.
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@ClaypoolCoaches @iFightPlug She talked shit to Samoans?
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@joshtpm Maybe the NYT should do a Sunday feature on "14 People That Drive Their Cars Through Vaccine Sites and How They Feel"
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The recall. As frustrating and messy that democracy and our city can be, it still works sometimes. And when it does, that means real, positive impacts into peoples’ lives. Caring and participation matter.
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Never in my entire 47 years on this earth have I ever experienced actual legit ethnic field hatred as with Jackie Fielder tonight. It was absolutely vile to feel in person. I felt sick to my stomach and left during one of her rants. I cannot understand how pure hate has become…
@conorj_SF
Conor Johnston
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@harveymilkclub @MrKwong @Trevor4SF @JackieFielder_ Like I'm not even gonna pay attention to the debate. I'm amazed by the vitriol against Jews surrounding me right now, in the Mission. This is crazy. The far left is fucking rife w antisemites. Jesus Jones. They booed and called him a liar when he mentioned Hamas' sexual violenc
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@lilygrutcher Glad to see partisans are practicing gender equity.
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@AdamSinger @ShellenbergerMD That book changed SF. It woke our asses up, and played a direct role in the recalls. The powers that be absolutely *despise* him, because he’s exposed them for what they all are- incompetent grifters. And I would not have said that had I not read the book.
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@luke_metro Why...would you do that?
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@InfraHaz Guyana Forever!!!
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@MayanGuerrilla @Jacquiiixx @nomsmagoso @FentyCop Nothing wrong with dude at all. We all get it.
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@marceelias I honestly wonder if on Jan 20, OAN and Newsmax will create this separate reality where he actually never leaves office and magats think that he's literally still president.
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@YCP4EVRRR Fam, did no one else catch what was goin in behind the locked door? There was someone else locked behind it, scratching right get out.
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@sfmcguire79 Remind me to transfer my kid to Burger King University of they ever end up pulling this.
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@maxseddon Right. Many Ukrainians are going through much worse than this right now.
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