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just another dude on the internet expressing his disdain for the status quo. Possibly pretentious in my digital musings.
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Does anyone else struggle to enjoy the same type of mainstream movies and television after undergoing a political transformation where you've come to see capitalist propaganda woven so deeply into our entertainment? It's hard to ignore once you truly see it.
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Seeing Lee Camp's, Chris Hedges', & Abby Martin's work stripped from YouTube should be alarming to anyone who pretends to give a shit about censorship in Russia or China. The US government doesn't need to formally censor anything when corporations will happily do it for them.
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Crazy how everyone who said 9/11 was the Trojan Horse for the rise of the police state has been proven right every step of the way in the 20 years that have passed since.
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Sorry, you can't vote for NATO expansion and call yourself a "progressive". There is absolutely nothing "progressive" about expanding the military-industrial complex which will consume nothing but money and lives. Anyone defending this can no longer be considered anti-war.
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Cannabis arrests have increased 25% since Biden's taken office, so forgive me if I'm skeptical of Joe Biden resolving the very problem he helped create.
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Seeing the first Starbucks to unionize in Buffalo, NY is a reminder that all progress will come from us, the people, and never through the counter-revolutionary Democratic Party.
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I'm not cheering for Trump to win. I'm cheering for Biden to lose. The fact Democrats are attempting to normalize genocide as a non-issue this election makes them just as evil as any right-wing authoritarian.
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It's a real fucking shame the only way we can discuss healthcare in this nation is if it's healthcare *for veterans. How about healthcare for everyone?
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I see many saying how if Bernie Sanders was president he'd do x, y, and z, but after seeing nothing but capitulation to the Democratic Party for two election cycles, I'm not sure why people think he wouldn't further acquiesce as president.
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So let me get this straight. We can provide a COVID-19 vaccine to everyone but we can't provide COVID-19 tests? These people are not serious.
Jen Psaki somewhat mockingly asks reporter at the White House Daily Press Briefing if the US should be sending out rapid
#COVID19
tests to every household.
In the UK you can order 1 pack (containing 7 tests) everyday.
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FDA shoots down booster shot proposal by Pfizer & BioNTech citing insufficient evidence of safety and efficacy of the measure. Can't wait to hear how the FDA has become anti-science and anti-vaxxer.
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@EmpireFiles
Only in this corporate capitalist dystopia does disrupting one of the world's most powerful men count as "harassment and bullying." War criminals have feelings, too!
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@JeffGrubb
Kinda wild how Sony's willing to sacrifice significant sales just because they want to inflate PSN numbers.
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@EoinHiggins_
Can't offer solidarity or support if Jimmy or Niko does huh? How very mature and serious of you. Hopefully all future leftist organizing get your approval in advance. I mean if just one person you don't like shows up, they might as well cancel it, right?
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@ZachariusD
FromSoftware have always been about environmental storytelling and I hope that never changes.
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It's twisted how liberals have more hatred for Ralph Nader than George Bush. The fact is they hate those who challenge power. They'll never see how Nader was the scapegoat for a corporate apologist party committed to silencing left wing voices rather than empowering them.
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It's weird how people always want to go after your profile picture as a way of insulting you. Gosh, I thought mine looked nice!
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash.—John Berger
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When I hear about Mike Pompeo running for president, the man who discussed an assassination plot of Julian Assange within the CIA, I laugh at how that's not even the slightest disqualifier in our bloodthirsty warmongering nation. Hilarious what's morally permissible in an empire.
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The people who wagged their finger at you for celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher are now the people wagging their finger at you for celebrating the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Soon they'll be lecturing you how disrespectful it is to celebrate Henry Kissinger's death.
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I hate how capitalism has so greatly skewed our sympathies towards the powerful. The predatory nature of it has become so socially acceptable, people are far more eager to blame the victim rather than the thief.
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The media that's eager to tell you China's spying on you are ever so slow to remind you why Edward Snowden's in Russia.
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@vanguard_pod
Not as embarrassing as you deep-throating Ryan Grim's boot on a recurring basis.
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@SocialistMMA
Call me petty, but I support Cornel West's run if for no other reason than to break their feeble minds.
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@NeverKarenHive
@ProudSocialist
@jimmy_dore
@jacksonhinklle
@richimedhurst
@SpittinVenoms
@Fiorella_im
@nikoCSFB
@yopasta
@MichaelTanuvasa
@Tim_Canova
@shawna_burley
@B43Franco
@FisherBurton
@SavageJoyMarie1
@SocialistMMA
@ggreenwald
I always love it when people are critical of those challenging power rather than those with power. These podcasters have been destroying this country far too long!
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@SocialistMMA
When you dig into AOC's history of establishing Brook Press Avenue, attending Boston University (where it costs 60k in tuition this year alone) and majoring in the CIA preferred major International Relations and Economics, it's not hard to see why people call her AOCIA.
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@existentialcoms
As long as NYT condones it, there isn't any problem. They're only upset when their favorite media outlet instructs them to be.
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@e_galv
That 24/7 news cycle has everyone forgetting all that happened yesterday, always keeping the masses in a constant state of amnesia.
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@blackintheempir
@jimmy_dore
@jacksonhinklle
I understand not everyone likes Dore and that's fine, but the irrational rage some feel in seeing his name is something I don't understand.
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@MelvinTheMopBoi
Gotta love how they repeat party propaganda without an ounce of analysis of how these conclusions were drawn. Biden's doing a fantastic job. Source: trust me bro.
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Not gonna lie. Shit seems so grim I'm starting to appreciate the economic benefits of fasting.
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@doctor_cabral
Ever notice how it's always "plans" or "in talks" or always something speculative? Nothing more than election bait. I'll believe this shit when I see it.
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Don't let capitalism alienate you from yourself. You're good enough. Your income doesn't define your worth. You are so much more than your labor.
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Now imagine the deaths Congress would prevent by nationalizing healthcare.
BREAKING: Congress approves new mandate requiring that alcohol monitoring systems be included in all new vehicles as early as 2026 in an effort to stop intoxicated drivers and completely eliminate DUI deaths. RT IF YOU THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA!
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@ProudSocialist
It's remarkable seeing people rationalize this tyrannical behavior. It's okay to shut down dissent if I don't like it! Not surprised though. These people haven't any principles whatsoever. They applaud whatever they're told to applaud because they can't think for themselves.
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@mattduss
You're to the right of Henry Kissinger, but sure, go ahead and wag your finger at those who refuse to consent to the escalation of WWIII.
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@doctor_cabral
Still blows my mind when Vogue casually reported he had a map of Afghanistan's minerals in his house and people didn't even bat an eye.
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@UnholyRom3
I'm glad you didn't. You've made such a difference. The world is so much better for having you in it.
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@UnholyRom3
The fact is all of Congress (including Bernie Sanders) is responsible for propping up the MIC. Inevitably one of his supporters will say he's not as dirty as others, but one drop of blood in the name of empire is one drop too many. There is no justification for such atrocities.
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The more negative energy I see on Twitter, the more determined I am to give back positive energy to all my brothers and sisters. Let's build each other up, not tear each other down.
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Following
@SocialistMMA
@ComptonMadeMe
@Jaybefaunt
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@UnholyRom3
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@RevBlackNetwork
is the real deal. They put their money where their mouth is and lead by example. Thank you for being a source of hope in these dark times.
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It seems some are misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm not suggesting there wasn't a police state prior to 9/11. I'm saying 9/11 vastly accelerated its growth. And that fact is indisputable.
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@LovesTheWords
@blackintheempir
It was revealed Hunter Biden had his father listed as "Pedo Pete" in his contacts, as it was once disclosed Joe explicitly told Hunter to refer to him as "Peter Henderson" when messaging via email, ya know, because they're all about transparency and stuff.
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Movies like Top Gun: Maverick are a reflection of how stagnant the culture has become that we're having to go back several decades to find an IP that people still care about. Neoliberalism truly has hollowed out the culture of anything interesting, meaningful, or subversive.
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@e_galv
The sad thing is they have to express it like they're five because that's the only way they can rationalize their support.
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@e_galv
Someone called me a purist for criticizing the theater, suggesting I wasn't supporting someone who's fighting for the most vulnerable among us because ya know it's not like the war machine runs on the blood of the poor or attacks nations without a fraction of the GDP of the US.
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One of the most pernicious evils of Western civilization is its attempt to bifurcate humanity from nature. Our society seeks to demolish the natural world and replace it with an artificial one that betrays our evolution. We were never meant to live isolated from each other.
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@SocialistMMA
It's like when someone calls themselves a left-winger but then has a Ukrainian flag in their name 😐
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What bullshit. This isn't about protecting small content creators. This is about protecting the government from public humiliation.
To reduce targeted dislike attacks & their impact on creators (esp on smaller creators), you’ll no longer see a public dislike *count* on YouTube starting today (the dislike button is staying).
This comes after lots of research, testing & consideration →
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@e_galv
It surprises me how some people can't see how they're being emotionally manipulated into supporting a much larger, more nefarious agenda. You don't have to like Alex Jones to see how he was just used as a means of opening the door to more sweeping internet censorship.
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@SpittinVenoms
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@ggreenwald
When you stan for your favorite politician
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@ProudSocialist
@BernieSanders
Yeah, I'd love to see Sanders develop a spine and stop answering to the Democratic Party, but in the last analysis he's a paper tiger who will never bite the hand that feeds. I just don't have the stomach to watch him sheepdog a third presidential election.
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@e_galv
You know for me it's a matter of who's in charge of the vaccines. I would have zero issue with taking Cuba's vaccine for instance. It's really the capitalists who are to blame for destroying the public's faith in healthcare.
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@bushido49ers
@AnnLesbyPhD
It's such a joke. Liberals aren't inherently bothered by the dominant power and influence of billionaires, just the ones who say things they don't like.
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable... At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain... they will pull back the curtains, move the tables and chairs... and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.—Frank Zappa
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@HowieHawkins
Calling yourself "anti-capitalist" while shilling for NATO and the military-industrial complex is rich.
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When you want everyone to know you vote the bluest of the blue no matter who
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@queeralamode
It becomes increasingly clear why SNL had to pivot hard to appeasing liberals. They would hold no relevance whatsoever if they didn't desperately align themselves with that crowd. The comedy is so incredibly weak. Partisan theater is the only foothold they have anymore.
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@BriannaWu
Typical liberal cheering on censorship. Is it possible for you not to have the very worst political takes?
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Labor Day has existed over a 100 years and yet the majority of Americans still haven't any real class consciousness. Just like Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Memorial Day, it's ultimately become a hollow gesture intended to distract from the fact the root goal was never achieved.
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@SocialistMMA
Apparently only podcasters are grifters but ya know, politicians who hound you for money every given opportunity are the real heroes. I mean these people seriously think we'd be so much further ahead if it weren't for critics & detractors of the Democratic Party & "progressives".
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@ProPeace97
Yeah, I think it's kind of sad seeing all the homophobia in that thread and people acting like this is some big deal. Why does anyone care? Families don't have to be traditional. Relationships don't have to be monogamous. Let them live their lives.
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.—Malcolm X
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@aaronjmate
You'll notice people who defend the powerful will always say "now is not the time" because it's never the time as far as they're concerned.
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@e_galv
It's insane how much their power has grown. It used to buying off the journalist. Now it's owning every facet of mainstream media and the culture surrounding it. People are so heavily inundated with propaganda they've lost the ability to recognize it.
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@SocialistMMA
@sahouraxo
@kulioma3000
Don't you just love it when the Truth disrupts their regularly scheduled propaganda?
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@Fiorella_im
That's just what the American people need right now, another symbolic gesture. No doubt that light will keep them warm as they're forced to sleep on the streets.
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@BanishedBernie
The real thing that concerns me is how this event will be used to justify a power grab, expanding the surveillance state because of "domestic terrorism" which really will be focused on targeting dissent.
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People are claiming these protesters are "eating their own" as though AOC represents anyone other than herself. "Eating their own" oh you mean holding politicians accountable for their chickenshit position. We're talking genocide here. Fuck your team-sport mentality.
#NYC
"You refuse to call it a genocide" - handful of protesters chase after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a Brooklyn movie theater, "You gonna cut it and take it out of context, I already said that it was" - AOC responded to protesters claims on refusing word "Genocide" , "This is
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@joeywreck
Yeah, anyone acting like trans people are an issue has been watching too much Fox News. It's just an extension of the same ol bigotry we've seen for decades against the gay community.
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@Jaybefaunt
It makes me think of when Barack Obama started talking tuition-free community college AFTER Republicans won big in 2014. It's so easy to propose policy you know has a snowball's chance in hell of passing. You get to look good and don't have to worry about offending the donors.
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@SabbySabs2
It's so gross what Fox did in the 90's. Shows like this and Martin were used to draw a black audience and then Fox completely ditched em by cancelling the shows and offering nothing else.
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Anyone who tells you, "Now is not the time," when you raise issues of injustice isn't your friend nor your ally. Now is always the time.
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Lol I just love how fucking cartoonish this China spy balloon discourse has become. Our political discourse is truly the greatest farce we've ever seen.
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@NadeemK4633584
@AP
So glad to see your unwavering support for genocide. We're lucky to have such compassionate people such as yourself on Twitter.
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@blackintheempir
Just the other day I posted something on Facebook expressing all the times the US government has lied about war, pointing out how this escalation will mean more power for the state and more money for oil and arms manufacturing and someone accused me of drinking Putin's Kool-aid.
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While I'm not in the "unite MAGA and communists" crowd, I will say the way in which some would rather keep the left a fashionable exclusive club is rather contemptible. I know we all like to feel special but gatekeeping is a particularly abhorrent attitude/behavior.
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@MaxBlumenthal
Just in case anyone has forgotten, in 1997 Dershowitz wrote an op-ed arguing in favor of lowering the age of consent to 15. I'm sure it's a coincidence he also represented Jeffrey Epstein.
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@SocialistMMA
@PostLeftWatch
You better back down, man. They caught you using the rofl emoji. Ain't no way you're coming back from that.
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Some say wearing all black is just a teenage phase you'll grow out of but at the age of 37, I haven't any intention of quitting.
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@DoctorFishbones
I wish more people would face the music and realize Sanders is just another operative in the Democratic Party machine. I understand it's tough letting go of our heroes, but the sooner people realize Sanders will never bite the hand that feeds, the better.
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@SDonziger
@marwilliamson
When she flippantly dismisses legitimate grievances and criticisms people have with her attempt to push a political strategy we've seen fail over & over again with a, "go vote for someone else then" tells me she's anything but serious.
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@JennieTetreault
@Manishmenna
@Jaybefaunt
You're in denial. Obama had a kill list ffs. His administration killed 16 year-old American citizen Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki and people like you will say it wasn't a crime because he wasn't prosecuted for it. Standing up for war criminals who skirt the label is cowardly.
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Condemning Hamas only makes sense if you believe the Palestinian people must unconditionally surrender the only bulwark against their own genocide.
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The 80's is a fascinating decade. I don't think it's a coincidence that hardcore pornography started to take off around the time when hyperconsumerism, the assault on organized labor, and military spending started to spike. These forms of dehumanization are undoubtedly connected.
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I hate how petty and spiteful American political discourse is. Everything is framed in one group being pitted against another. People are easily manipulated and misled when everything is intended to speak to your biases and prejudices which the media knows you'll never question.
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Cop City is a fine example of the sophism that enables the growth of the police state. When the people who played by the system's rules rejected it, the city council said "fuck you" and approved it anyway. When the public reacted negatively to being ignored, a call for more cops.
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This might get me thrown out of some leftist circles, but there's never going to be a day when I know how to spell "bourgeoisie" without having to look it up.
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