Georges Haddad
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Lebanon and the Middle East. History, Politics, & Security - Humanitarian & Human Rights. Former @ALEFliban , @SynapsNetwork , & @ACTED . & Tweets are my own.
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With all the fake news and tensions I've been seeing for the past few months, I've decided to conduct a little investigation to make sure if what was shared online was true or false. This is a small list of things I found. Thread.
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In Lebanon, if caught smoking hash, you get a black dot on your criminal record which really sucks for young people searching for a job. But you can run in the parliamentary elections even if you're at the core of the investigation of the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history.
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This video kills me every time I watch it. No blast, no violence, only what's left and what used to be.
#٤_آب
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Lebanon:
• 20 official holidays.
• 1 day of national mourning every 2 months.
• state institutions close at 3:00 PM.
• Banks close at 12:30 PM.
• Schools close at 2:30 PM.
We mostly blame corruption & obsolete infrastructure, let's remember how bad Lebanese work culture is.
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Every single person I know living in this damn country is convinced that what they do has become completly useless. There's no meaning, no purpose, nothing. People are depressed, they're exhausted, and are just waiting for the worst to unfold.
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Trained my dog to pee in front of banks and she's so proud of herself 🤙
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Ammonia nitrate has been sitting there since 2013.
2011 - 2014: Mikati.
2014 - 2016: Salam.
2016 - 2019: Hariri.
2020: Diab.
There you have it, the top decision-makers in charge during all this time. Stop fighting each other, it's them, that's it.
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This is the moment when Hezbollah and Amal militants entered Ain el Remmaneh shouting "Shia, Shia, Shia", destroying the street and beating up people. That was BEFORE the shootings. And the Minister of Interior insists on saying it was a peaceful protest.
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What's left of Lebanon? Sunset photographs. That's it.
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Some things to think about after Ismail Haniyeh's visit to Lebanon and to the camp of Ein al Helwe. He comes at a time of great turmoil, not only in Lebanon, but in Palestinian refugee camps as well. The latter are also dealing with unrest and protests. Thread.
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Just to make it clear, this is not my video, it was probably shot by one of the militants. I received it and posted it here.
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So a group of fuckers thought it was a good idea to use extremely loud fireworks in Mar Mitr to commemorate the death of someone (enough to make your heart skip 30 minutes of beats). I was 1min away, cars were flying and people were screaming. Good job boys, good job.
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Besides the sexism problem related to people such as Pierre Rabbat, Hisham Haddad, or Marcel Ghanem, what is happening is the result of years of promotion of cheap, vulgar and stupid content from the Lebanese media. People praised immoral TV hosts and influencers for far too long
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What's also shocking is the lack of teams sent by the Lebanese authorities to support people on the ground. What I've been seeing are young Lebanese men and women with brooms and masks cleaning the streets of glass and debris. State is dead, time to bury it and build another.
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Assassinating Lokman Slim on the 6 months anniversary of the Beirut blast. Any other way to show that neither the authorities, neither the political establishment, and neither the Lebanese "Independent" Justice are there to protect the people? #لقمان_سليم
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Thread: these are some of the videos I received. Again, I didn't film these myself and don't have the names of the people who did. But they relay some of the events we witnessed today.
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Intense bombing of South Lebanon as of this moment.
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What has the Lebanese authorities achieved in 3 months:
1/ Destroy the trust in the state.
2/ Destroy the trust in the banks.
3/ Destroy the trust in the security forces.
#LebanonProtests
#لبنان__ينتفض
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A normal day on my Twitter feed:
- Civil war is looming.
- Hezbollah.
- Finance Minister.
- Remember August 4.
- Hezbollah.
- Embrace your depression, it's your right.
- I'm leaving! (Pic with passport/ticket).
- Eastern Mediterranean analysis.
- Hell 🔥.
And repeat tomorrow.
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The Lebanese army shot more at protesters in October 2019, than it did on fuckin terrorists today. #الطيونة
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1/ This guy starts his thread saying his dad was rejected after getting a vaccine appointment because he's Palestinian but ends it saying he didn't have an appointment and "just walked in." This is not racism, this is stupid. Anyone SHOULD be rejected if they just showed up...
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12/ To conclude, the amount of fake news online is frightening & is having a dire impact on our society while polarization dangerously increases. Political parties, journalists, bloggers, & average Joe's are all responsible for this. A bit of due diligence is not that hard to do.
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Another ordinary day in Beirut:
- the Dollar is going for 33 000.
- roads are empty.
- people are once again queuing in banks and gas stations.
- a... protest? is being organized for Thursday.
- beautiful sunny day.
Yup, just another ordinary day in Beirut.
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Michel Moussa, one of the MPs found on this infamous list, is the head of the Human Rights Committee. He's deeply involved in the update of the Lebanese National Action Plan for Human Rights. Can we trust this guy? Easy answer. #١١٨_استقالة_الان
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1/ Power and internet cuts increase.
2/ Most gas stations closed.
3/ Portests in Dahye.
4/ Journalists kidnapped by Hezbollah.
5/ Rumors of Amal supporters ready to attack the FPM.
6/ Lawyer's office working on the Beirut blast... was blasted.
Just another day in paradise 🇱🇧
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Things I've been hearing for the past 30 years:
• The US are pulling out of the Middle-East.
• Oil belongs to the past.
• There will be a quick, full and transparent investigation in Lebanon.
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After Wissam al-Hassan car bomb (two buildings away from my house), I would get anxious and suspect the car next to me would be full of TNT. I would walk fast to get away. I got over it. Now, every loud noise I hear, my heart skips a beat. The trauma is real, I need a break.
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It's a miracle Lebanon wasn't hit like Turkey & Syria. Yes the Beirut blast, I know, I was there, but the level of destruction seen in Southern Turkey & Northern Syria, with thousands of buildings destroyed, would have put our country & society to their knees.
#TurkeyEarthquake
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This is what happens when trust is broken and people start to panic. No one believes the Lebanese authorities anymore, people are scared, they can only count on themselves.
The Army is telling people in the vicinity of Beirut port to evacuate as another huge fire rages. This video is circulating showing workers fleeing the area
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Live from Beirut. "Al chaab yourid eskat el nizam"
Protests are erupting in Hamra, Downtown, Saida and Tyr.
People should choose their battles. Start by voting to the right people fellas.
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Pascal Sleiman has been killed and his body is currently in Syria. They're saying it's a car theft that turned sour, I don't believe it. Car thieves wouldn't kill him and take his body to Syria or drag him there to kill him. It smells like another assassination. #باسكال_سليمان
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It's 2:00 AM, and still ongoing. I wonder what the political leaders are planning to propose tomorrow. Never saw that many people protesting without any planning in
#Lebanon
since forever.
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I watched a video showing the body of Pascal Sleiman and it looks like he was beaten before being killed which is extremely inconsistent with the story of a random car theft incident.
#باسكال_سليمان
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THREAD 1) The whole
#Mashrou3leila
affair should not come as a surprise to anyone. In fact, people being shocked is just a sign of how much the Lebanese society has become ignorant in terms of what is actually happening in our lovely country
#Lebanon
.
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It is easier to find an AK-47 than powdered milk
The availability of weapons in Lebanon is just ridiculous.
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So the political class has been sending thousands of young Lebanese to prison for smoking weed but stocked 2700+ tons of explosive chemicals in the middle of Beirut? Fuck you.
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My grandma died of COVID-19 a week ago. To all you conspiracy theorists out there: wear your damn masks, wash your fuckin hands, and more importantly, go to hell.
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Instead of helping us clean the streets and remove debris, ISF member is having his shoes polished. I really don't know what to say anymore.
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People are trying to storm the house of Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati right now. Windows are being shattered while security forces are trying to hold ground from within the building.
#Lebanon
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1/ Defeat: "it's over. I grew up listening to stories my grandpa used to tell me. At one point during the Lebanese civil war, he told me "we're all alone, Arabs have abandoned us. Get a diploma and get the hell out of here."
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Electricial wires burning in front of my house due to the rain and the infamous Lebanese infrastructure. Just an ordinary day in Beirut.
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11/ Also, we know most people share anything they see online without checking, it's shocking to see that many from "civil society", who call for transparency & accountability, do the same frenetically. Both political parties & activists accuse each other of spreading fake news.
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Just a reminder that every single MP and minister is still getting a full month salary and not doing anything. W yalla 💃
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I bet most people around have no clue regarding how much activists, human rights defenders, journalists, civil society peeps, and thawra groups, hate each other. The levels of tension, hate, and despair I've been witnessing are crazy.
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While I wait for summer's infamous power cuts, I wanna personally thank EDL for lighting up my neighborhood this morning.
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Trash is piling up again all around Beirut. The trash crisis, which was the main reason why people took to the streets in 2015, is now the least of our worries.
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Mikati and Sanyoura, two former Prime Ministers, are asking the international community to support Lebanon. How about giving back everything they stole from this country?
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Sick of calling for investigations, accountability and justice. We live in a country where killing people in their homes is actually rewarding.
#انفجار_مرفأ_بيروت
“There will be new martyr every day, today from my house and tomorrow from yours,” unless people come to the streets and remove Lebanon’s rotten ruling regime.
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Protesters threw their parties' symbols and are now raising
#Lebanon
's flag. Downtown
#Beirut
is full of people, the movement is getting bigger and bigger with people finding ways to avoid block roads to convey to protest areas all over the country.
#لبنان_ينتفض
#LebanonProtests
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Can we stop the "فخامتك" ,"معاليك" and "سعادتك"? Come on journalists.
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2/ Realism: "why is it surprising? If you're surprised you just didn't follow the news for the past few years."
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Gotta thank all the PVE/CVE programs. Great job everybody.
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If only my job was guaranteed every time I quit. Saad Hariri, what's your secret?
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Hundreds and hundreds of people have been rushing to Gemayze, Mar Mikhail and Geitawi to help families and the youth who lost their house, their business, their job or everything combined. That's not resilience, that's solidarity.
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3/ "Aoun sleeping during Macron's speech." Many "activits" have been sharing a photograph showing Aoun sleeping or falling asleep during Macron's speech. It is obviously a fake, a screenshot taken at the right moment when Aoun lowers his head. Check the video in the next tweet.
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3/ Resistance: "they gave Jerusalem to Netanyahu, you think that having a deal with a bunch of rich kids in the Gulf is intimidating? We will never stop fighting."
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A new way of resisting. To the corrupted and their followers out there, we have brooms, we have masks, and we're mad as fuck.
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2/ Hamas' show of force was predictable. The Fatah, who's mostly in control of the camps in Lebanon, through the PLO, faces accusations of corruption, clientelism, and violence. They've been losing support for years, especially after failing their popular base.
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If I see someone using the word "resilience", I swear to God...
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Just a small reminder, remember when the Lebanese army deployed soldiers with RPGs in downtown Beirut against random protesters instead of stopping RPGs from being shot today? #الطيونه
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4/ Clearly Aoun was not sleeping and people failed to check the video as usual.
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Come on, let's be fair. After the protests, the various crises, and the port's explosion, Hariri changed. He lost some weight.
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THREAD: The fire ravaging the forests are just another symptom of what has become Lebanon: a failed state. Our country, which is 10 452 km2, and has only 10% of its territory covered with trees, can’t even face this tragedy, (we’re far from being Brazil with 55% of forests).
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11/ Finally, the visit won't be welcomed by many, especially the Lebanese Christians. Parading with weapons & adopting revolutionary speeches will revive the souvenirs of the war. It also comes at a time when Patriarch Rai calls for the neutrality of the country. To be followed.
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12/ For more info on the Palestinian youth, their challenges and frustrations, I wrote this article a couple of years ago with
@SynapsNetwork
. Here's the link:
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7/ Haniyeh doesn't have anything to offer. The factions are already despised on the ground. His speech, full of revolutionary quotes, is just rhetorical and a way to mobilize what is left from his troops. Reminds us of the Lebanese leaders, their parties and narratives.
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5/ Despair: "it won't have any impact on us. Most Palestinians want to leave the region. Can I work in Abu Dhabi? Dubai? Can I buy a house in Palestine? No. Just a couple of more years and I will be in Canada."
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2/ The famous "Nasrallah crying over Soleimani but smiling over the Beirut blast", is of course a fake. Nasrallah crying happened in September 2018, more than a year before Soleimani's death. Nasrallah was commemorating Ashura back then.
Here's a link:
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4/ Hope: "it's maybe a good thing. Arabs will put pressure on Israelis at the economic and financial levels. They have leverage now and can force Israelis to treat us well."
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3/ People didn't even read the full thread and just shared it blindly... how is anyone supposed to take civil society and social justice warriors seriously when the only thing they care about is to be belong to a group that only wants to complain and shame without thinking?
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Looks like no one in Lebanon wants to be Prime Minister. Anyone not Lebanese interested?
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@deadlebanese
@zippydippy28
@macaronjoe
It's not fake, I was there. This is one of the videos I shot
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Another thawra positive result: the Lebanese people bought so much masks and goggles for the
#LebanonProtests
, they're basically prepared for the
#coronavirus
.
Finally some luck.
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Yesterday night, while crossing a street with our brooms, for the first time in my life, two Lebanese soldiers told us "يعطيكن العافية". That was pleasant.
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A Lebanese mother shared what happened with her bank. The bank won't let her send cash to her daughter who's living abroad to pay her Masters' fees since her daughter already has a diploma and "can manage to find a paid job." So banks decide who can study or not now.
#Lebanon
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6/ Fear: "I'm not interested in politics. What does that mean? Will they welcome Israelies and send Palestinians away from the Gulf? Will my father and brother come back to the camp?"
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Besides snakes, wolves, and smugglers shooting at each other, Akkar in northern Lebanon is breathtaking.
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This trend saying that civil society should be unified or else it will fail is absolutely naive. Civil society can't be unified with the same list of demands. It basically defeats the purpose... civil society should in fact be very diverse and fuel political debates.
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7/ As if the Beirut blast didn't provide social media with enough photographs of apocalyptic and devastated landscapes, some felt the need to share older explosion pictures such as Wissam al-Hassan's in 2012. Two buildings away from my house.
Real source:
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THREAD: It’s a turning point in
#Lebanon
. A part of the
#Shia
community is waking up. For the first time, the Shia from
#Dahye
,
#Nabatiyeh
, and
#Tyr
, have virulently attacked their political parties openly in the streets and in front of the cameras.
#لبنان_ينتفض
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Any official army in the world uses the country infrastructure, such as ports or airports, to import weapons and equipment. They have the only right to do so.
A militia, resistance group, or my grandma, shouldn't be able to. That's today's short lesson on state sovereignty.
⚡️⭕️
#Israel
is using the Ben Gurion Airport for weapons reception and military purposes, the Lebanese resistance has the right to pulverise it in any eventual war
[Video from October 12th 2023]
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The level of frustration, despair and helplessness I see is destabilizing. It's as if a huge chunk of the Lebanese society has come to a halt.
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I can't even dare imagine how much we don't know. Imagine what they're hiding from us. How many more will die? The country is literally exploding and all of them are guilty (8th,14th, technocrats, etc.). This is only the tip of the iceberg.
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11/ Another angle of the Ain el Remmaneh area, most probably when local residents started defending themselves after militiamen from HB/Amal started to destroy the street, its buildings, beating residents, and shouting "Shia, Shia, Shia."
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I was walking around Gemayze, Mar Mikhael, and Martyrs' Square and took some pictures of graffitis and a couple of other things that pretty much illustrate the situation in
#Lebanon
. Thread.
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A truck ran into Mar Mikhail's bridge (the old railroad). Thank God no train was passing by when it happened.
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9/ Falling for fake news can happen to anyone, even the Beik. This time, a picture showing dozens of trucks smuggling fuel & crossing the Leb-Syrian border. In fact, this convoy was driving through Yemen & this link shows it first appeared in October 2018:
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2/ At least have the decency to delete your fake news thread. We know there's a huge racism issue and refugees have had enormous challenges to access many things in this country. Stop your fake news and drama you prick, register, and wait for your turn.
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@DmitriTrenin
@GerardAraud
Yup, actually Russia, France and US, are the key for peace. Thanks to their international conference, Libya is finally prosperous
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What people need to understand, especially after the explosions in both Beirut and
#Akkar
, is that any of us can die or be injured at any time in a similar catastrophe. The Lebanese authorities, political parties, security forces, and Justice, are all complicit criminals.
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If you look closer, you can almost spot plastic bags mimicking jellyfish.
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