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@revhowardarson Yep, exactly what I was saying.

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@schlagteslinks January 20th was Biden's inauguration. My guy absolutely lost a bet lmao

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@kimpossiblefact Oh please, it's nothing compared to his latest comic, which is that one Matt Bors Nazi comic, but done completely unironically.

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@Kingsgrave_ @schlagteslinks WAIT IT IS MY MAN LOST A BET LOL

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@IRHotTakes The Kessel Run is the most egregious example of this I've ever seen. "The ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs" was obvious bullshit Han made up to impress an old man and a country bumpink. The script itself says so. And they made an entire movie about it.

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@rad_milk This user was, in fact, shot by cops.

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@schlagteslinks Just realized that "Childless cat ladies" was Trump's version of the "Deplorables" comment and now I can't unsee it.

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@revhowardarson One of the biggest impacts of Donald Trump on the conservative psyche is convincing them that having an unrestrained id is actually a virtue. That being your worst self, everywhere, at all times, is a sign of health and strength.

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@thetyrantcbass The fact that this extremely highly rated game, whose major themes include racism and white supremacy, has its most important black character turn into a violent savage once her revolution gains power remains one of the most baffling things I've ever seen in video games.

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@KyleKulinski *Something bad happens in capitalism* "Communism really does suck, doesn't it?"

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@schlagteslinks January 20th was Biden's inauguration. My guy absolutely lost a bet lmao

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@lefttwick I consider being exposed to teenagers' opinions online a violation of my human rights.

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@un_a_valeable Just a PR stunt.

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@thelindsayellis The most accurate depiction of Twitter I've seen so far, painted by Hieronimus Bosch:

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@PopulismUpdates Just Salvador Dali still being alive well past the 70s. He was offered the role of the Padishah Emperor in the first Dune movie project. He outlived John Lennon by almost 10 years. He could have played Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES.

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@KyivIndependent That's because if there's one thing we Swiss value more than neutrality, it's stability.

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@SaraGhaleb @Hbomberguy They also both suffered from "trying to be more clever than the audience" syndrome.

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@purplewaves7 @merovingians Very nice people.

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@PopulismUpdates On one hand this is very silly and bad that the Governor has that kind of power. On the other, the Wisconsin legislature is hybrid regime levels of undemocratic, so let's go.

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@BeijingPalmer In those situations, I always like to bring up Adventure Time, because it's a kid show (which as a rule tend to shy away from controversial topics) that spanned the entirety of the last decade, so you can see the shift almost in real time.

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@TNOQuoProQuid @BeijingPalmer Umbridge is a fantastic example of this. One of the best character of children's literally, not because she's particularly interesting, but because she's written in a such a way that the audience can project literally any bad experience they've had with a teacher onto her.

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@cowboyyblues *Their* 3D animation. You can do some incredible and very expressive stuff with 3D, but Disney insist on producing only this bland, smooth "Pixar" look that every one of their 3D movies have.

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@InternetHippo Literally just because the car dealership lobby is one of the most powerful political forces in the United States.

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@opinonhaver @0xKruzr Sunak too. The Israeli gov must really be acting foaming at the most genocidal for rhetoric to shift that fast.

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@shaun_vids @Hbomberguy Actually you're wrong. In fact the opposite is happening: most people consider their personal financial situation to be good, but the general state of the economy to be bad.

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@IRHotTakes The lengths some people will go to make their lives materially worse in the name of sheer hatred is absolutely fascinating to me.

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@InternetHippo "How bad is this shit?", well, Project 2025 wants to ban pornography, and also their definition of "pornography" includes the mere existence of LGBTQ+ people. And that's just one horrific proposal among many.

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@revhowardarson And his build was such dogshit that it became legendary.

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@cityafreaks 90s school bullies, a famously beloved character archetype that normal people love rooting for.

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@InternetHippo An hilarious aspect of Trump is the obsequiousness he shows to people he sees as "strong" is only matched by the utter contempt he shows to those he considers weak.

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@IRHotTakes My hottest take: the lore as envisioned and alluded to in the original movie was infinitely more interesting than anything that came after it.

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@lefttwick "The crime of 9/11 is that there weren't more of it", I absolutely despise that kind of "leftist guilt", almost fanatically Christian in its obsession with "political" sin and its atonement in violent and spectacular fashion.

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@rainbow_q20 Lot of sites that are basically just "Twitter, but for Nazis".

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@JennyENicholson @thelindsayellis Still can't get over the fact that she's never fought for anything as hard as she's fighting for terfism. Not even for things she could have had a real impact on, like when they no-homo'ed the hell out of Fantastic Beasts. Crazy that she decided that this is the hill to die on.

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@Hbomberguy Luckily for you, thanks to its hatred of the sequels, the internet has now deemed the star wars prequels "actually not that bad when you think about it". Your career is safe.

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@LinkofSunshine @un_a_valeable Also there's a very funny overlap between "advocates for the violent overthrow of the United States government" and "gets a panic attack when having to make a phone call".

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@Hbomberguy First interracial kiss on TV too. Pretty sure today's reactionnaries would call it pandering.

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@SWTweets There actually has been multiple Jewish Jedi grandmasters throughout the history of the temple. Isaac Bergstein, Anthony Goldberg, Noah Cohen... to only name a few.

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@ettingermentum Doing my duty to make Twitter a better place.

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@souljagoytellem Drumpf was the lowest point of John Oliver's career, and it's not even close. It crossed the line from cringe into being genuinely pathetic.

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@hermaneutic @InternetHippo Link to the original story:

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@lefttwick There are so many variations of that conspiracy theory running around, from the "ISIS is an op controlled by the CIA/Mossad" to the more craven/sophisticated "Now I'm not *saying* that Ukraine was involved, BUT—", all ultimately trying to pin this on the West somehow.

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@JennyENicholson I've seen someone call it the "Magneto Syndrome". Sometimes the villain is the one fighting against what is clearly an unjust status quo, and since the heroes *have* to oppose him (because they're the heroes), they forced to become de facto defenders of said status quo.

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@Hbomberguy Incredible to get such a perfect snapshot of the absolute state of culture under late capitalism in only 3 pictures.

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@Kangaesugiru @deportablediz @CaseyExplosion People who fervently demand the right to never have to question the culture they consume don't question their views on culture. *surprised pikachu face*

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@IRHotTakes As far as hypotheticals go, the most likely scenario that weirdly nobody talks about is "French generals are about 20% more competent and the Wehrmacht gets annihilated in Belgium".

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@thelindsayellis Like you said in your last video:

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@BeijingPalmer At the beginning of the decade, the show dropped some hints that two female characters have had a romantic relationship. Even as subtext, it was quite scandalous! By the end the same decade, they have an on-screen kiss and then become an official couple and nobody bats an eye.

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@jasonschreier @duckvalentine Are you telling me that infinite growth is not possible in a finite universe?

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@Kingsgrave_ @schlagteslinks Yeah, you don't donate to something called the "Progressive Turnout Project" 2.5 months after the election, on the day the guy gets sworn in. This is almost guaranteed to be one of those "If Biden becomes President then sure I'll donate to Democrats" kinds of bet.

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@jjrage @GamerTakes Remember, these are the people who use "NPCs" as an insult to mock the knee-jerk reactions of the "SJWs". Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure this guy would fail the Turing test.

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@jefftdeboer @ddale8 Anti-intellectualism has always been a mandatory stop on the road to facism.

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@PopulismUpdates This is what your campaign looks like when your comms team consists solely of 22 years old groypers on mass shooter watchlists who spend 12 hours a day on /pol/.

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@MinuteSimone @DaamNadia @BeaulieuBap Ils ont dû se dire "Bah qu'est-ce que ça coûte de faire appel?" 1000 balles apparemment.

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@PartyWurmple @opinonhaver @0xKruzr Yeah, like this thing is basically the Tory equivalent of singing the Internationale while flying the Soviet flag. It's a HUGE rhetorical change.

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@opinonhaver I've come to really dislike the "aesthetics left", ie. the people who fetishize the aesthetics of revolt and liberation above and often at the expense of everything else.

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@steve81573937 @The_Law_Boy The entire conservative movement is just one giant Allegory of the Cave, except the people brought to the surface have guns and they're threatening to shoot you if you don't let them go back down there because they're going to miss the 9 p.m shadow dance.

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@lxeagle17 @tsjatismewat And the incredibly response from the Swedish community wasn't just one or two weirdos either! Beasts in the shape of men.

Opinion: I’m Swedish – it’s true that we don’t serve food to guests. So what?

As a child, I didn’t really care, I just continued playing while the host family ate dinner

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@Sharon_Kuruvila @merovingians Regarding McKinsey's dealings in France, the official assessement of the Cour des Comptes (the very powerful supreme audit institution of the country) was that "in terms of strategic counsel, the quality of their work is often poor, their recommandations very general and laconic"

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@jdabre11 That's why I agreed with people who said he could absolutely do the job of President, but just didn't have the stamina left to also be candidate.

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@Ettin64 @Hbomberguy Even better is the fact that any attempt by these guys to produce anything of value outside the grift crumbles under the weight of their massive egos. It's what happened to Comicsgate.

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@rad_milk For trying to stab his wife no less, which segues nicely to this other gem.

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it's probably ok to bring a knife to a gun fight as long as you bring a gun too. honestly bring whatever you want except for a bad attitude—gun fights are about having FUN

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@PhilosophyCuck They were even spared during Dessalines' massacre of the island's white population because they had been specifically granted the honorary status of "Black"! (German colonists were also spared, as well as French people "whose profession could be useful to the population").

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@GoldwagNathan I love that weird genre of jokes. My favorite one is in Discworld, where the first thing an innkeeper does after being introduced to the foreign concept of "inn-sewer-ants-polly-sea" is to try to commit insurance fraud by burning down his own establishment.

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@revhowardarson Leftists stop using conservative rhetoric when they're mad at Dems challenge (impossible).

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@ScottChalleen @NateSilver538 "Something went wrong in Florida" is the only sentence that you can use in all circumstances, every single day of the year, and there's a 100% chance you will be correct

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@JennyENicholson This creates a dissonance within the story that is solved in one of two ways. The first is to acknowledge that the villain makes some good points, but that their way of enacting change is too extreme/radical (the classic Magneto vs. Xavier).

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@BeijingPalmer 90% of reactionary politics is just this basically >

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@IRHotTakes Letting the Empire simply be a fascist dictatorship out of tune with the inherent spirituality of the universe would have been just fine, actually. And certainly way better than making your entire setting revolve around an eternal turf war between two gangs of space wizards.

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@AlphaOblivion7 @shaun_vids @Hbomberguy An extremely pedantic remark, and you could just have checked yourself, but here's the link.

46th Edition - Fall 2023

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@SaraGhaleb @Hbomberguy "Ha ha, you dunces, you really thought Moriarty was coming back?" "Ha ha, you silly viewers, you really thought Stannis was a caring father like in the books? EXPECTATIONS SUBVERTED!"

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@IRHotTakes The Battle of France is the main pillar supporting the myth of the Wehrmacht as an hyper-efficient death machine, and then you read about it and it's just French generals making the dumbest possible decisions at every turn for months on end and it still ends up close.

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@MikeDrucker @merovingians RETVRN to legal contracts based on the lifespan of English kings.

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Vraiment? On en est donc arrivé au stade de "j'insulte des gens gratuitement sur Twitter"? Désolé de le dire, mais c'est franchement pathétique.

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@SullivanROUAUD ah pardon j'avais pas vu la suite de ton post, tu es effectivement completement con, je m'excuse

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@IRHotTakes The other convincing argument is that it's perhaps a bad idea to pick someone who pissed off unions when the previous guy almost lost the UAW's endorsement.

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@JonFox93 @CosmonautMarcus Same reason why The Hobbit was made into a movie trilogy, with the third movie being entirely dedicated to a battle that happens off-screen in the book.

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@opinonhaver Here's another example of that: domestic abuser gets sent to jail for commiting violence against women; reacts by immediately commiting violence against a woman. But viewed solely through the lens of aesthetics, this becomes an outburst of righteous anger at an unjust system.

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@schlagteslinks They can't really admit that the main reason they picked Vance is that they have absolute trust in him to do what Pence refused if it came down to it.

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@PopulismUpdates Chris Christie's strongest soldiers. Literally.

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@OldDreyfusard @merovingians The discourse on this site for the past month and a half:

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@PopulismUpdates Calling in early elections was a ballsy move —Sanchez's career would have basically been over if it had backfired— but damn it paid off. No majority, but Vox was humbled, the PP is in disarray and the left is reinvigorated after the disastrous results of the municipals.

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@thelindsayellis I once had a Peterson fan explain to me that misogyny was a myth because valkyries.

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@un_a_valeable The cities that became the Mega Cities are sending me. You've got, in order, Singapore, Shanghai, Stockholm, Brussels, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires and New York.

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@GoldwagNathan I actually disagree, because I think that one of the biggest reasons why the press wants Trump back is specifically that feeling of importance they got in the Trump years, "speaking truth to power" and being hailed as the saviors of the Republic while making money off clicks.

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@InternetHippo george rr martin: the lands to the east of greyt britten are strange, complex and full of wonder. also george rr martin: so this is basically Venice but I changed the names so...

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@SkaveRat @Hbomberguy The judge deemed him an unfit parent, if you can believe it.

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@fordm @Popehat Even better are the actual plans for the game format. Basically you only play with NFTs of MTG cards that are minted in a limited number decided by the community. So what stops people from hoarding all the best card and be unbeatable? That's the best part: nothing.

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@MikeBlack114 @revhowardarson In the twilight of Twitter, at the end of the world, the gates of the great Poasting Halls will open, and the gods will send to us their greatest warriors, who will ride without fear and without remorse do battle against the forces of darkness. As has been foretold.

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@PopulismUpdates A level of unpopularity that was once thought to only be achieved by failed dictators and French Presidents.

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@un_a_valeable A bunch of militias operating from an open-air prison under full blockade and constant surveillance managed to do more damage than Egypt and Syria, with the full might of the Soviet Union behind them, ever did in their own surprise attack. What an tremendous humiliation.

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@Kangaesugiru @deportablediz @CaseyExplosion I've seen those people apply their myopic Western reactionnary perspective to things like the unresolved legacy of Japanese imperialism in Southern Asia. To the surprise of no one, they blame it on SJWs.

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@PopulismUpdates Me when I'm totally a democracy.

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@himbopresident @revhowardarson This is something I feel deeply. What started as a commendable attempt to push back against media elitism turned into an all-encompassing flattening of culture itself. If all is equal, then low culture becomes de facto superior by virtue of being more popular and approachable.

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@merovingians There's a reason the Russian expression for an empty threat is "China's final warning", not "America's final warning".

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@drmistercody @JRubinBlogger @Mediaite Now, now, not so fast! Maybe the people who couldn't stop the producer of the Apprentice from taking over their entire party and turning it into his own personality cult have a thing or two to teach us about winning.

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@FurstvonWrede @un_a_valeable Also because the French really, really hated the English.

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@IRHotTakes The theory that comedy dies when it's trying to go for applause rather than laughs is vindicated once again.

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@Chase_Hend @cityafreaks "They lie beneath the water, withdrawn, "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe."" Dante describing median Florida voters.

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@PopulismUpdates "The Prime Minister Who Got Outlasted By A Lettuce", straight out of a 19th century satire book.

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@thelindsayellis Parasocial relationships are a hell of a drug.

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