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Memphis girl. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts."

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3 years
@olex_scherba Oh, military service is compulsory for 18 & 19 year olds in Russia. They're probably telling the truth that they don't want to be there and were forced. No wonder this isn't going so well for Russia. If America tried to attack Canada with drafted 18 year olds, that wouldn't work.
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"the biggest cohort of paediatric amputees in history"
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The UN estimates that 1000 children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of paediatric amputees in history,” says @GhassanAbuSitt1 .
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@caitoz "It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it." - John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
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@caitoz This keeps being true.
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@DrTomFrieden It'll be true to say it's similar to flu when the red line goes and stays down closer to the black line here.
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@RWMaloneMD It is slander. Did you give them screenshots of where the patent specifically mentions "mRNA Vaccination"? If not, that might convince them to retract it?
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2 years
@janeosanders Bernie and Warren need to run together. Running against each other last time was a mistake.
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@Polluxe @DGlaucomflecken The average person's taxes aren't higher in most universal healthcare countries. What we pay per capita for medicare, medicaid, and military health care alone covers 100% of the population everywhere else. We just get PRICE GOUGED.
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@caitoz Aaron seems like such a fundamentally kindhearted person, I really hate it that he has to engage with this BS.
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3 years
@caitoz You can no longer be a basic "against endless wars and backing coups" type of leftwinger without being called a fan of some dictator now.
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@ebruenig @BradleyWhitford He was a (very) radical socialist.
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@Novatecho @caitoz Capitalism is not "maximizing people's ability to exchange services." Capitalism is using wealth and power to create more wealth and power, over and over again, till Nestle can buy politicians to help them steal your local drinking water supply to sell you the water.
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@UrosZiv @DFsuzgun Think of it as "Lockdown Plus" [plus disease, death, disability, etc.]
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@kgosztola ...and anyone who wants evidence is going to be called a Putin apologist or denialist. We know how this goes.
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@RobVanDom @AlexThomp @davidalim @adamcancryn ...or just when popular support for a policy they don't want to implement is demonstrated on it.
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@AmiDar "State secrets" are kept be reasonably large numbers and groups of people all the time.
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@EricTopol @NYTScience @AndrewJacobsNYT @aicher_sophie @Delphine_Planas @institutpasteur @justsaysinrats @NikonSmallWorld A friend of mine has developed a form of long covid that includes all kinds of neurological stuff, like mild seizures, brain fog, and a very peculiar memory problem where she has invented memories that are obviously (to her, right after she "remembers" them) fictitious. She (1/2)
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@NeoliberalSnow @CDCDirector People should choose the water that's best for them. The best water is the water you can and will drink consistently.
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2 years
@caitoz More than that, you're not even entitled to KNOW what all is going on there.
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2 years
@rrabagast @ElenaNPerez @doctorow @tumblr My favorite is when google "helps" by REMOVING words from your search (they even show it by crossing a line through it), so you have to put them in quotation marks to get them back.
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@USEmbassyKyiv @StratcomCentre As an American, this is shameful. Why is a US embassy trying to egg on a potential thermonuclear war with juvenile insults on twitter? We need diplomacy and de-escalation now, not low-quality war propaganda videos.
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@olex_scherba Sad, but they're lucky to be alive. These kids will get to go home eventually.
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@AmiDar A lot of state secrets involve actions which are illegal. Look at the prosecution of whistleblowers.
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3 years
@NickytaLeb What the holy New Age non-think is this? "Longevity through early death! Sobriety through constant intoxication! Prosperity through destitution!"
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@denise_dewald @GPanisriR_MD The "covid is a hoax" belief has made doctors the enemy in the eyes of the believers. It's like some sort of belief-induced personality disorder, or maybe the personality disorder existed first and increases the risk of the belief. Hard to say. (1/2)
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@ggreenwald They started hating Taibbi when he started refuting Russiagate. That was his great, unforgivable sin.
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@DrGRuralMD She intends to block accurate sex ed for other people's kids. Her parenting is fair game, IMO.
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5 years
@MackayIM "For now, you are more than likely not living in an area experiencing widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-2. " CDC needs to hire you to do communications for them.
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5 years
@jenbarrows @CDCgov @tndp @TNDeptofHealth @GovBillLee Also in TN here, and I feel your pain. We in the south are just going to have to operate on the assumption that what's happening in the rest of the country is also happening here, just undetected/unreported to the public.
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@alexandrosM They've all actually always done this, though. This is just the first time people have noticed that they do it.
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@EricTopol We're in a state of emergency here in the south, even if our governments aren't declaring it. We are failing to "flatten the curve." ERs are overflowing. We're out of ICU beds and transferring patients 500+ miles north. And CDC, state, and federal government are just...chillin.
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@sillygigolo @briebriejoy Basically everyone who tells the truth gets called a grifter nowadays.
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@cb_hagen @AndrewNoymer The idea that covid is airborn was actually considered crazycakes for a while, and it took a shamefully long period of time for the consensus to catch up with the evidence. Criminalizing dissent in medical science is just a fantastically awful idea all around.
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@V2019N "very confident that they have contained the spread of #coronavirus into the US so far. " - based on almost no evidence.
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@AmiDar Boeing might have just murdered a whistleblower. In the US whistleblowers face the death sentence, so the chilling effect is more effective than killing "covertly" a lot of the time. I think this is a good way of looking at it.
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@JewelDole @doctorow It was in the word "this."
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@haaretzcom @omerbenj They're posting in UNICEF comments, too:
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@UNICEF Lazy pro-genocide bots in the comments here. Gross.
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@ragepath @Spartacousin @jochely3 @immortal_sea @AlexThomp @davidalim @adamcancryn I can't believe we're seriously arguing about how many discarded masks a human life is worth. We spend over a million dollars saving or even just prolonging just a single life *all the time*.
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@thackerpd @MartinKulldorff I've never quite understood why people defer to a computer guy and his wife about anything not computer-related, honestly. I know they're really rich, but damn.
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2 years
@the_duke_raoul @justinamash @Coshoct @elonmusk You use evidence and reason to try to persuade them of the truth. People are going to believe some wrong things, tho. It's an unavoidable part of the human condition. It's not the end of the world.
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@mullikrk @caitoz You're a boring troll and I'm muting you. Have a nice life trying to annoy other people, tho.
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3 years
@caitoz To be fair to Trump, he did maintain a pause in the regime change op in Syria. Clinton seemed to be itching to fire it back up.
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3 years
@RWMaloneMD @Maciej93052345 Another outbreak, similar (but with 91% vaccine coverage)... "In the past month, UCSF has had 183 employees or learners test positive for COVID-19...Of those, 153 had been vaccinated and 30 had not..."
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@moonkittea @zillowgonewild I know! How is it still in such great shape?
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@DGoing5 @RWMaloneMD @silvia_hirschi They've given up on the herd immunity argument. They are basically panicking now. ~95% down to ~50% is quite a dip in effectiveness. They might be quietly wondering if it could creep into the negative effectiveness numbers eventually without a booster.
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@CDCgov Seasonal flu is "a serious situation." Pandemic coronavirus is the biggest global public health *emergency* since the 1918 flu pandemic. It's very unlikely to be eradicated via quarantine at this point. (1/2)
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@GordoMonstruo @axios @jonathanvswan @realDonaldTrump In epidemiology, you look at it from all angles to get a complete picture of what's going on. "Deaths per million population" is a VERY important, telling metric. For countries that don't test except in hospitals, a high "death per million" number will demonstrate lots of cases.
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@TheSylvreWolfe @kthalps So we should murder them, right? Murdering women is the ultimate act of feminism.
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3 years
@MackayIM I'm in the US and very happy my teens are vaccinated for covid. They are, too. Also: "96% of 12- to 17-year-olds in San Francisco have gotten at least one vaccine dose"
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@pjackson_nl @DAvallone @peterbakernyt @Davidlaz Pretty sure Bush Sr. was actually involved, too, so we still don't necessarily know the exact mechanics for sure. See:
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@EricTopol @NYTScience @AndrewJacobsNYT @aicher_sophie @Delphine_Planas @institutpasteur @justsaysinrats @NikonSmallWorld ...also experienced aural hallucinations for a couple of weeks while initially recovering from covid. So, this makes sense. Something like this happened to her, I'm pretty sure. She is as debilitated from covid now as many kids used to be after polio. (2/2)
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@ryangrim They're increasingly just essentially arguing that genocide and war crimes are simply necessary here. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
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@kooleksiy So, I'm guessing the western endgame is to turn Ukraine into the new Syria if Zelensky signs any sort of peace agreement with Moscow and isn't immediately killed by Azov-aligned forces?
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2 years
@Griff3945 @equalityAlec You are defending murder. Then again, you're a leader in a murderous gang, so it's very on-brand.
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@SetPixels @comradeaux My uninsured mom died from what would have been treatable, a couple of years ago. Happens every day. At least a half million people a decade in the US. :(
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@caitoz @mullikrk He's probably just trying to be annoying.
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@adamjohnsonNYC Amen! Also, this is why we support unemployment insurance and universal healthcare. Your employer going out of business should not be the end of the world for you.
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@juliaoftoronto Influenza (when severe and in people with lung issues) can cause shortness of breath, too, can't it?
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@EricLondonSEP She blocked me, too. All I said to get a block was that somewhere between incubator babies and false claims of WMDs in Iraq, I learned to not automatically dance when I hear the drums of war.
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@caitoz You know what they say about how the best defense is a good pre-emptive military encirclement of all potential enemies.
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@ASBMilitary Every industry in every single sanctioning country wants a carve-out for their particular industry.
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@MackayIM @factcheckdotorg I don't think factcheck is going to be a reliable source on this topic at all. I think the research is clear that the damage is worse than one school of immunology thought would have you believe, tho it's obviously not as bad as the most extreme covid doomsdayers think it is.
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@caitoz Poor Israel. So hard to sell a genocide nowadays.
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@dwallacewells Great article! Regarding this point, it would have been nice if you'd mentioned that the "international team" was mostly the same little group who have been insisting it was a market spillover from the beginning, wrote those overconfident ("dispositive") articles early on, etc.
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@GambyNealGamby @caitoz George Carlin was real AF.
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@BizMac88 @EricTopol @kkariko @WeissmanLab If you search the 1989 patent for "mRNA vaccination," you see it is indeed in there, and as far as I can find, it was the first one. It demonstrated "proof of concept."
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@MackayIM @factcheckdotorg The issue has primarily been driven by the t-cell immunologists who detected the immunosuppressive effects much earlier in the pandemic. Then there's another group of immunologists who refused to even address the evidence other than calling it hogwash and hand waving it away. 1/
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@El_Viejo_Ingles @doctorow The idea of housing *debt* as a form of wealth is one of the the biggest cons in the history of cons. A house is a place to live. That's it, and nothing more. Anybody telling you otherwise is not thinking clearly on the topic.
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@Rebecca21951651 @ScienceMagazine @ScienceInsider @CD57227 I've had a theory for a while that all this 2 spillover talk is basically market-emergence "fan fiction." I feel like I'm listening to Trekkies sitting around troubleshooting workarounds for various plot flaws in the Star Trek universe, and this video feels like confirmation. 😏
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@caitoz Westerns are just not supposed to know many of the relevant details needed to understand these conflicts. It's always been like this. Basically NOTHING was known about the East Timor genocide (pre internet) They want us ignorant again. Debate cures ignorance. Debate's forbidden.
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@JAMA_current @V2019N CFR among health care workers appears to be about 0.29%.
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@RWMaloneMD If they've seen it, then this line "While this paper is an example of his important contribution to the then-emerging field, it does not make him the inventor of mRNA vaccines" is DEMONSTRABLY libel according to law, and you really can sue them, if you can demonstrate the damage.
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@aaronjmate People need to know about this: And this, too:
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@aaronjmate @cenkuygur @AnaKasparian Holy s***! I knew they were...imperfect progressives, but that is next level awful.
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3 years
@NeoliberalSnow Bond traders are forecasting inflation as a result of too much government spending on sewage systems in the global south. Can we use democracy to liberalize the markets for backyard outhouses in some countries in South America?
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@caitoz What a lot of folks are *actually* mad at them about is them being right about Russiagate, I'm pretty sure. If they had toed the line there, none of this would be an issue.
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@alon_mizrahi He doesn't think he needs redemption. He's proud of everything happening.
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3 years
@Gab_H_R I try to keep all plausible scenarios in mind as things unfold, from best case to worst case. While none of the *absolute* worst case ones have happened, it's averaging *closer* to worst case than to best case, overall. It's been unrelenting since Delta emerged.
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@MattBruenig In libertopia, nobody borrows money they can't pay back. (that's basically the answer I get to questions like this when I ask serious, committed libertarians. "Well, people shouldn't put themselves in that position.")
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@R_H_Ebright No bite needed if it was airborne. Assuming a bite would be needed was really dumb, even when regular droplets were assumed to play a role in OG SARS transmission.
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@Noahpinion Free first trimester abortion. So restrictive.
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@MackayIM @factcheckdotorg We still don't know how bad it is, other than "not as bad as the worst case scenario" and "not as good as the best case scenario."
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@michaelmina_lab @SkyDirigible Doesn't that vary widely disease by disease, and vaccine by vaccine? One dose of live measles vaccine "does the trick" for well over 50% of people, and one sufficient exposure to wild measles does it in >99% of people, for example.
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3 years
@scruffington88 @caitoz No, the promise really happened. It was only verbal, though.
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@YehiOrr @shadikhalloul @IsraelWarRoom Please talk to some Palestinian Christians. You've been largely misinformed. It's not mostly the Muslims oppressing Christians in Palestine.
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@MyOrthodoxJrny @mualphaxi I wonder if Five Eyes have fronts?
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@emilyakopp @BallouxFrancois Yeah, they seem to consider any discussion at all of any sort "anti-science."
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@jkre1244 @TulsiGabbard @MattWalshBlog I expect she'll be baptized into the Christian faith on live TV here soon, or maybe right before some election she's running in. Ridiculous con artist.
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@ggreenwald You're still one of my favorite writers/journalists, Glenn, but the way you went off the rails here is not flattering to you.
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@T_Inglesby He normalized and funded the creation of superflus, and then he lied to congress about aspects of his involvement with it. The man is no hero. Back away from the Fauci-worship, everyone.
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@davidsirota @jimmy_dore At some point, it's okay for some of us to decide he's just too unstable to try to dialogue with. It be like that sometimes.
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@forbeshealth A lab leak and a lab creation are 2 different things. The Marburg outbreak was the former but not the latter. The author knows this, though. Can we get someone not financially reliant on NIH grants to cover this?
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@Laurie_Garrett @GovRonDeSantis @GileadSciences Some of these folks won't get the vaccine because the tech is a little freaky, but they'll take antibodies generated by what are (I'm pretty sure) transgenic human-mouse hybrids (mice genetically modified with human DNA to have human immune systems). It's a funny old world.
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@tim_g314 @EricTopol Memphis here. We're out of beds, too. ER wait times are exceeding 24 hours. Just unreal.
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@strife_db_knot @caitoz That's how intellectual cowards *always* act. It's part of how intellectual cowardice perpetuates itself.
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@BookishFeminist @Reuters Seconded. This needs to be deleted, because it implies such an event is unexpected and a sign of vaccine failure.
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@4GWDOTDOTDOT @kthalps @justwardoctrine You are completely lacking in self-awareness about how much you sound like a Trump-loving Brett Kavanaugh defender, aren't you?
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