Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC fatherbill.bsky.social
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Holy Cross Priest; Leep Family Rector, Graham Family Hall, University of Notre Dame; Thomas More Fellow, de Nicola Center for Ethics & Culture at ND.
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“Human” and “human life” have biological and philosophical senses. The former is not complicated. The latter is. The fact that people disagree about the second does not license denying the first, that biological human life begins at conception. When *rights* begin is philosophy.
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Christianity. [ducks]
Is there any other product like Q tips that is used almost exclusively in a way that the product warns against?
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I'm not an alarmist and I believe this effort will fail because our institutions are resilient and it's mostly theatre. Still, it's dispiriting that the GOP has so few people willing to say obviously true things, condemn obvious lies, and put an end to this farce.
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If the J&J vaccine keeps 100% of people alive and out of the hospital, sign me up.
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Good morning! 20 years a priest today. Deo gratias.
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Hulk Hogan is proving that classical rhetoric is not dead yet. Cicero is reputed to have torn his toga asunder to seal the case against Catiline, so an erudite nod to tradition there.
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Hard to believe this powerful and uplifting message might lose!
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@jduffyrice
@brianbeutler
A D&C is an abortion if the unborn child was still alive. The article states there was a miscarriage, but it's not particularly clear on the details. D&C is not an abortion if a miscarriage has occurred. Mayo explains the term is used outside of pregnancy:
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BREAKING: Area CEOs prefer abortion to maternity leave, call it feminism.
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What good are all those billions if they can't get rid of this video?
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Marcus Freeman is now undefeated as a Catholic. It's all going according to plan.
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@chrislhayes
@JohnDWalke
It’s gross to have the thought internally, let alone express it out loud.
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The work of education is to educate. *You* don’t occupy buildings, nor do faculty. Lots of idiocy is common in colleges. Wise educators correct it, prepare people for life, and defy egotism. Which students get to commandeer common spaces? Why? Abetting this stuff is illiberal.
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Left Ireland one year ago today. There I was cutting the cake at my July 5 farewell, and here I am this morning. Good to have lakes to walk!
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The Bible photo op--itself a grotesque phrase in these circumstances--was like a scene on Arrested Development. Just beyond words.
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ND has announced, to my great delight, that I'll be the rector of the newly reestablished men's dorm, Pangborn Hall. In 1990 I moved into the room next to the Pangborn Rector. 31 years, an ND B.A. in Philosophy and M.Div., and a Columbia J.D. later and I've made it one door over.
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We shouldn’t obsess over our bodies but in the second half of covid I decided to move more and eat less. Since August I am down 60 lbs., a too round number on the last day of my 48th year, but good. If you are considering such a change, I can report it’s doable and even fun.
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Bruce Castor should have deployed the cat filter.
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It’s dispiriting that so many Americans have enthusiasm for this man. I’m not speaking of party or policy. Regularly mocking the disabled and especially casualties of war is so grossly immoral and un-American it’s astonishing he’s about to win Iowa running away.
Donald Trump mocks John McCain's injury sustained while a prisoner of war. McCain was unable to lift his arms above his shoulders.
"John McCain for some reason couldn’t get his arm up that day."
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Cannot comprehend self-identified Christians being antisemitic. We believe God chose to become a Jewish man. Our Scriptures were authored by Jewish men. Paul was a Pharisee. Christian antisemitism is diabolical in origin, logically absurd, a grievous sin against human dignity.
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Students have moved out. The laundry room shows they are happy to leave a lot of clothes and supplies behind. It also shows this guy isn’t particularly detail-oriented.
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In the face of bafflingly persistent Catholic support for Orban, one must recall that he removed all doubt about his racism, his treating races unequally, last summer. The speech was so bad his longtime friend and adviser resigned, calling it "pure Nazi text." Family friendly
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Nothing was ever less secret in the history of humanity. What is this nonsense?
A coalition of Christian lawyers, activists, and politicians methodically and secretly took down Roe, and in the process, outsmarted Democrats who believed they had permanently won on the issue of abortion. And the end of Roe v Wade is just the beginning.
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I’m 100% biased, but Justice Barrett keeps knocking it out of the park and it was very predictable. She was so absurdly maligned in a combination of misogyny, classism, and religious bigotry. She’s amazing.
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Jim, we are friends. You were always allowed what this allows. You still cannot bless couples as sexually active outside marriage, nor redefine marriage. Don’t give false information.
New: My take on the historic Vatican declaration on same-sex blessings. "As a priest I look forward to blessing same-sex couples, sharing with them the graces that God desires for everyone, something I’ve waited years to do."
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My brother would have been 50 today. I pray for those who suffer mental illness and addiction that they make it where Tommy did not.
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In this “work from home” era I don’t see why New Jersey can’t have a Senator serve from prison.
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Today is my 21st anniversary of ordination as a priest. I've had strengths and weaknesses and still do, I've had successes and failures and am still trying to get better at some important things. But when this day comes around each year what emerges most, and ever increasingly,
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Graham Greene’s Whiskey Priest’s reflection as his death approaches is always a gorgeous way to end the Feast of All Saints, not least because the priest was not far from the Kingdom of God in the end…
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@chrislhayes
@TPCarney
She made no compromise. She accepted the appointment of the elected president. She had nothing to do with the timing of that appointment and no obligation to act as if he were not the legitimate president fulfilling his duty. This is quite mistaken, a product of anger not reason.
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This is highly misleading. He was no longer the president. He admitted he had not declassified them and no longer had authority to do so. He has lied about it repeatedly since. That’s crime, not politics. The stakes were high:
The question of whether Trump should have kept those documents is fundamentally a political question. Criticize it, attack it, vote against it. But prosecuting a president over his own government’s documents is turning a political issue into a legal one.
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It is often noted that Jesus told us not to judge others. Far less frequently is it acknowledged he had never been in an airport when he said it.
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These scenes should be in the ads that kill any future campaigns of Cruz and Hawley.
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Prayers please for a family who have just lost wife and mother of three to a sudden recurrence of cancer. May she rest in peace.
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When you find yourself in the South, go with its strengths.
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Today I turned 50. Celebrated Mass with the amazing undergrads I was on pilgrimage with, coffee and a long walk with residents back from break, and off to dinner now. Preached the Transfiguration with this poem. Grateful for deep friendships, loving family, many revelations.
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I figured there would be some violence. It’s worse than I figured, and any non-Romney GOP leader shares in the blame along a scale of shameless and dishonest abetting of Trump’s fantasies and wrongdoing.
Protesters are fighting with Capitol Police and Secret Service within the capitol building.
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First shot scheduled for tomorrow. Whew.
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@chrislhayes
Thomas gave her the cover in his immunity concurrence which nobody joined. I assume if nothing else she wants rid of this case, and now the 11th *could* reassign it. Nobody joined the concurrence, but as
@jadler1969
notes it’s not plainly foreclosed by precedent.
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Not how one hopes to celebrate one’s 19th Anniversary of ordination, but at least being priest on duty in St. John Henry Newman’s own church is a lockdown consolation.
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22 years a priest today. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude for the joys of walking through life with people. Many of you here have made me a better priest, bad as I still am. That blame is on me. Thank you for the kind encouragement!
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Nearly all the old people in my life have died. What I would give for another year, month, day, with any of them. Let’s not be casual because we are not at risk of preventable death.
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ND has embarked upon a hopeful attempt at the pause that chastens. If we succeed, human relationships will be enriched, many jobs will be saved. It won't be easy and it may fail. It's not reckless and I think it's appropriate to try the hard thing for the many for whom "stay
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My “Not MY Pillow” bumper sticker has aged well.
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There's something a little grotesque about a society that pays the UNIVERSITY coaches in this game millions per annum and then has students throw balls into Giant Dr. Pepper cans at halftime to get some tuition relief. Good luck, kids!
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Having loved ones with dementia is a school for patience and surrender.
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I loved Chernobyl, and listened to the podcast after each episode to hear when we were being hoodwinked.
@mashagessen
argues persuasively it was far too fictionalized, getting the minutiae of many trees right but missing the forest of Soviet horror.
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@chrislhayes
It was a bizarre comment, but he was not then ralking about jobs really:
TRUMP: “Equal Justice under the law must mean that every American receives equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement regardless of race, color, gender, or creed..”
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A request from a friend to light a candle at the Grotto is one of the blessings of living at ND.
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Took Mom to the vigil at my home parish. Merry Christmas from Olga and me!
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Office complete. Any failure to produce my promised book in two years will now be down to defects of character.
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Just stopped by the Grotto and said some prayers for friends in need. Praying for all of you as well!
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Celebrated the opening of the school year Mass in Notre Dame Stadium. Concelebrants vested in the locker room. I distributed communion from pretty much where I sat at my first game as a freshman in 1990, watching ND defeat Michigan.
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Surprise anniversary dessert pizza at dinner with old friends from Seattle and New Jersey. 23 years a priest tomorrow, each one better than the last, if only because I’m generally less foolish, or at least less energetically so. Deo gratias!
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@chrislhayes
Cheney made that clear years ago. “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter,” I think it was.
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@jduffyrice
@brianbeutler
I don't know anything about the Duggars. I know that People Magazine is not (a) quality journalism or (b) conservative and it's possible that they are incorrect that it's a miscarriage and possible that you are incorrect.
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Good morning! Sorry, the view from my front door doesn’t get old for me. Not since I arrived as a freshman in 1990.
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Let’s take a moment on this sunny Easter to pray for those who even now are in the darkness of addiction, of loneliness, or of despair. May God and we his people reach out to them with light and hope.
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I’m so happy for the Court and for my brother priest Fr. Reidy that he gets to serve in this way after excelling at Yale Law School. Some federal judges might reconsider their boycotts.
Father Reidy Goes to Washington — As Supreme Court Clerk
Notre Dame law professor Father Patrick Reidy will clerk for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, starting in October.⤵️
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Preaching at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem with a group of ND pilgrims was pretty unmatchable as my job goes.
Drop a cool photo of you doing your job.
(I like this one, even if it is my official
@AppealsCourtGA
photo)
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At 92, Alasdair MacIntyre will give a talk as he does every year at the
@ND_EthicsCenter
Fall Conference. “Human Dignity: A Puzzling and Possibly Dangerous Idea?” He always provokes, amuses, and challenges. Can’t wait.
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Good evening! This is a university bookstore. It is an excellent place to buy unusually expensive clothing.
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Good night, everyone. Let's be decent, especially to the most vulnerable and least well off. And let's be merciful, especially to those we find hard to like. And let's pray to arise tomorrow more self-aware and humbler than we were today.
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I am out of quarantine and feeling great. Thanks to all of you who reached out in various ways to wish me well. I'm grateful for the vaccine which made a mild outcome very likely and even more grateful to return to public Masses on this First Sunday of Advent, a beautiful season.
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Caravaggio’s great works remind us that we are always in a mixture of darkness and light. The darkness will not overcome it.
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In your charity, please spare a prayer for these two women, their parents, families, and friends, and the ND community tonight. A beautiful fact about ND is how tight-knit and mutually supportive our Latino students are; the result of that is great pain today. Prayer service now.
UPDATE: Notre Dame has just released the names of the two students killed in the tragic crash in South Bend this morning. Those students have been identified as Valeria Espinel and Olivia Lara Rojas, both first-year students at Notre Dame.
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If this site goes down I will still be posting my thoughts about life, love, and laughter on 3.5 cards stapled to a telephone pole in downtown South Bend, as I have since 1997.
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I spoke with an ND freshman football player this year who turned down offers from AL and GA. "You had a better chance at a national championship at those schools." "Yeah, I picked the school I wanted to study at." I don't know how many games he'll win here, but he'll be alright.
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Ten young men professed perpetual vows as religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross today. I am grateful for and inspired by their commitment, not least because it makes my eventual retirement more plausible. Mostly because they are good men striving to serve and be holy.
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A disgusting lie. My friend
@petermarksdrama
wrote an excellent, deeply human review of a complicated drama. In no way does he minimize the horror of pedophilia, let alone praise it. He's had to take his twitter feed private due to receiving threats. Shameful demagoguery by Cruz.
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Marcus Freeman had to learn on the job. Appears he’s a quick study.
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If we didn't have 3,000 people a day dying, the vast majority of whom are irrationally unvaccinated, Rogan would not be an issue. Whatever his subjective culpability, he wasn't *just askin' questions* and his very important show gave a permission structure for reckless risk.
This! This, this, this! Legacy media gave up real interviews as Donald Trump rose up and their muscle memory on how to do them is gone. Their ratings have plummeted as they have interposed themselves between newsmakers and the public: Blue bubble self-suffocation.
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Let’s all slow down, consider our own faults, and be forgiving when people evince contrition. It’s a trying and pressurising time. Wisdom is merciful and calm.
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I do commend the president for apologizing to the reporter. It's important to model apologizing itself as leadership.
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A year before he died, nine years into dementia, Dad had one remarkable day where he was delightfully engaging, singing and joking as he hadn’t in years. The last day I’d see him thus. My niece captured “That Lucky Old Sun” here. Hope you’re rollin’ round heaven all day, Dad.
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A faculty colleague and I made some steaks for the staff. First night of duty tonight…
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Walking campus while a game is underway is accepting a gift of peace.
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Ross
@DouthatNYT
is the best columnist we have by far. If you agree, he is likely better at articulating it than you are; if you disagree, he will give you the best shot at appreciating his point of view. Those who reflexively dismiss him (on left and right) are deeply mistaken.
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Off to Mass. Will pray for the world and tonight especially for the sick. Talked with a relative earlier in his hospital room where he was just diagnosed with cancer. His mortality, and mine, reminded us both to say we loved one another. Take a moment; let someone you love know.
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Two minutes away from turning 48 here in Ireland, I confess I had not expected it to be such a memorable one and rather wish that it were not. But Hammarskjöld is still correct: for all that has been, thanks; to all that shall be, yes.
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Visiting home brings the special treat of praying with Mom. At 80, she’s still a great lector even with thorny passages in Micah.
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@AndyGrewal
I dunno, I’m inclined to agree with
@chrislhayes
here. Assuming that the self-defense argument prevails here, then we have a situation where the presence of guns led to unnecessary deaths in a way hard to reach by law. Seems possible it would spiral into more guns and more death.
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If someone has led you to believe that determining whether a thing is (a) alive and (b) a member of a species is a matter of religion, they have misled you.
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If the GOP dropped Trump for Burgum or Haley it would win 40 states against Biden. This is one insane election in the world’s indispensable superpower.
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Going to offer Mass for SCOTUS—all nine!—on this feast of St. Thomas More.
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Unfair of the NYT to say the Supreme Court is "increasingly politicized." It's true the three liberals vote nearly uniformly as a bloc but I'm sure it's in good faith.
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If one wanted to say America should be a Christian nation, one would presumably have in mind a nation marked by mercy, by generosity to the poor, the stranger, and the prisoner. Is that the idea such people have in mind? I’m on board there.
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NPR is obsessed with having vaccinated people wear masks. That would be fine if they made arguments, but it’s always anecdote, incredulity at the CDC when it says otherwise, and fear untethered from math or science. Very strange.
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A dear friend’s daughter whom I baptized was just admitted into ND. Fantastic for her; but as it was an infant baptism, surely I am no longer a young priest.
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In a normal year, an undergrad with luggage in the middle of a Monday is headed to Citywide Liquor. This year, to be tested and possibly quarantined.
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I feel ashamed that I am a person of such low character that I do not congratulate LinkedIn contacts on their work anniversaries. I believe I’m in the majority, but broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who take it.
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It is no endorsement of Trump to say that in a healthy democracy the press should be skeptical of both parties, tough on both parties, and especially rigorous with incumbents of either party. If one candidate is demonstrably worse, that will be plainest in such circumstance.
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I think it's time to log off, dude.
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Not watching things is super enjoyable.
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