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Jon Piccini

@JonPiccini

2 months

Reminder to people who owe me a book review that I have a long memory.

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Jon Piccini

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1 year

Defend my PhD thesis? After all it did to me??

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3 years

Gotta hand it to Biden, he’s one of the few world leaders who can stand normally

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Jon Piccini

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4 years

Every tech startup needs to have a historian on staff who can press a big red button that says ‘NO’ whenever someone propose a new technology that is just scientific racism but with an algorithm

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I teach history, and am very clear with my students that I don’t expect them to memorise dates. Because that’s not history, it’s trivia. As historians we want to understand how and why events happen. Let’s expect the same from politicians: less arcane facts, more deep thinking.

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The movie Home Alone was released in November 1990, at the start of the US-led Gulf War. It was #1 at the box office until that wars end, in February 1991. The film’s popularity can in part be explained by its fitting with liberal arguments about America’s failure in Vietnam 1/10

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Speeding is about cars. So road rules are anti car.

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2 years

In Tanya Plibersek’s home state of NSW, protesting on a public street can attract a $22000 fine or two years in jail under draconian anti protest laws passed in April this year. Australians have no ‘right to peaceful protest’.

Tanya Plibersek

@tanya_plibersek

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Powerful images coming out of protests in Iran. Incredibly brave. People everywhere have the right to peaceful protest.

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'This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet...This storm is what we call progress.' Walter Benjamin, 1940

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1 year

Australia here: don't do this.

Guardian Opinion

@guardianopinion

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Listen up, critics: first let Labour win power. Then scrutinise its real record | Polly Toynbee

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Jon Piccini

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2 years

Imagine you’re a teenager working minimum wage at a bakery, next second Jane Caro accuses you of a hate crime.

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Jon Piccini

@JonPiccini

4 months

How many universities are left in Gaza, mate?

Anthony Albanese

@AlboMP

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Students must feel safe at university classes. Families must feel safe in their own neighbourhoods. People must feel safe to practice their faith in peace.

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2 years

Recon I will actually.

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2 years

The greens are going to win 5 lower house seats. I feel this should be gaining more air time than it is.

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2 years

Eric Abetz has lost his seat. I feel like this election is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Jon Piccini

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Everyone lay off Raygun! Cultural studies academics only twirl like that when they are VERY distressed.

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Jon Piccini

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2 years

Looking forward to dinner tonight!

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Jon Piccini

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4 years

Lets be clear: this is about creating a two tier system, where critical knowledge is available to those with the appropriate property qualification, and children of the working class are forced into underpaid professions by economic necessity. As a #firstinfamily , im gutted.

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2 years

Couldn’t make this stuff up

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Adam Bandt is taking a policy of increasing the number of journalists getting owned by 3000% to the electorate and we love it

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2 years

This is what happens when your activism has no awareness of class or even just basic sensitivity to whose gonna clean up.

Read No Shortcuts

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2 years

Okay now folks in the UK who want a plant-based future are doing milk dumps at the grocery store. Curious to know what folks think about this.

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Melbournians facing one of life's great challenges (travelling to another suburb).

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@uberpaul

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How do you screw up early voting so badly.

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Jon Piccini

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4 years

Never seen this many people at a rally before. Not even before Iraq. The mall is impassable. 10s of thousands. #blacklivesmatteraustralia #StopBlackDeathsInCustody

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7 years

That's it, I'm done.

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11 months

Any organisation who works with this man is supporting racial science and eugenics.

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Congratulations @AlboMP & Jodie. Marriage is a fundamental good for society. It promotes mutual dependency and support. And with home ownership first, and superannuation second, you have the foundations of prudence, responsibility & security for life. Congratulations.

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What's the third most iconic man made structure in Australia? Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge top two obviously. There's like ten or more you could make an honest case for.

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Jon Piccini

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6 years

In 1988, a re-enactment of the first fleet was jettisoned from the Bicentenary program as celebrating colonialism was deemed simply too offensive. Very cool that 31 years later we’ve revised that decision.

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5 years

@shelleyxcheng @PippyChandler "Puppies, Pancakes and Panic Attacks" is a great title for a bestselling book on the mental health crisis on campus.

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Jon Piccini

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4 years

Men, what is stopping you from looking like this 24/7?

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Jon Piccini

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6 months

I'm reminded right now of the fact that, when the racial discrimination act was passed in 1975, the majority of complaints received in the first few years were from British migrants upset at being called poms.

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Jon Piccini

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5 years

It is I, the casual academic who loves the flexibility of working six different contracts across three institutions simply to eat.

Casual academics aren’t going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn’t...

The higher education sector may be the the third largest employer of casual staff in Australia. More cuts to universities mean the use of casual academics could increase further.

theconversation.com

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Australian research council

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Guardian Australia

@GuardianAus

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Queensland police employee accused of selling domestic violence victim’s personal information to ex-partner

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PSA: Australia Day has a shorter history of continuous national commemoration than Clean Up Australia Day.

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Hearing that wombats are encouraging other animals into their burrows so as to ply them with Marxist literature

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3 years

Recon there’s something connecting these two events?

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Jon Piccini

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4 years

Labor types saying ‘HECS was about fairness’ seem to ignore that it replaced a literally, actually free higher ed system

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2 years

Liz Truss RN

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Jon Piccini

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5 years

illegally imprisoning someone and then tweeting how happy you are they got out six years later seems pretty gaslighty to me

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Jon Piccini

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4 years

Roses are red Life is all peaches

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Jon Piccini

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7 months

'I hope this email finds you well' How the email finds me:

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Jon Piccini

@JonPiccini

2 years

Fixed it

The Greens NSW

@GreensNSW

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How to be a good landlord > Fix things > Don’t evict for no reason > Understand you profit from a deeply flawed housing structure that makes houses (on stolen land) an asset when they should be a human right and odds are you and yours would be better off with a fairer system too

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Jon Piccini

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5 years

Remembering the time one of my students said the US invaded Iraq for ‘essential oils’

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11 months

This is a war crime.

6 News Australia

@6NewsAU

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Israel has now officially cut off water, electricity and fuel to Gaza | #6NewsAU

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Certainly was unforgettable for the 100,000 single parents whose pension she cut on the Very. Same. Day.

Guardian Australia

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5 years

#BREAKING : @JuliaGillard 's misogyny speech voted 'most unforgettable' moment in Australian TV history #UnforgettableAusTV

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3 years

The abc assembling a team of investigative reporters

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@MildCuthbert Thoughts and prayers

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3 years

Is Dark Emu perfect? No. Does Pascoe misread some sources, and discount past work? Yes, as much as any popular historian does. But today’s ⁦ @GoodWeekendMag ⁩ take down reeks of gatekeeping and confected outrage. Read Tom Griffiths take instead 👇

Reading Bruce Pascoe | Tom Griffiths

The author’s compelling yet curiously old-fashioned account of Indigenous history has inspired and empowered

insidestory.org.au

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Israel: Gaza is not an occupied territory Also Israel: we own the rain that falls on gaza.

Childless Dog Lady is TENUREDT. 🍉🌺

@sgbuggs

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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY OWN THE RAIN?!?!?!?

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captain GetUp is duff man for racists

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Victorian greens busy platforming TERFs, while Queensland greens locking on to a disabled public housing resident’s front door to stop his eviction. We are not the same.

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2 years

My political compass says my views are left wing. But I actually vote for a right wing party. How did this happen ?

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No they don't

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Jon Piccini

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2 years

No joke about the Ben Robert smith case can accurately reflect how absolutely insane it is.

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11 months

Threatening to 'teach the UN a lesson' is definitely something you would say if you were abiding by international humanitarian law.

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Jon Piccini

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5 years

Me: sets an early alarm My body: ‘would you like to wake up every 10 minutes for the hour before said alarm to ensure it’s still on or something?’ Me: ‘...no?’ My body: ‘let’s just do it anyway.’

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3 years

Imagine being a wfh professional enjoying lunch at the dining room table, having a go at CFMEU members who just want a spot to sit down.

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1 year

Never forget. #QandA

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This guy claims to be a communications expert

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Jon Piccini

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3 years

That open letter attacking the #SydneyFestival boycott claims the campaign is an ‘affront to both Palestinians and Israelis who are working to advance peace through compromise’. Here’s a visual representation of the ‘compromises’ already made thus far:

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Jon Piccini

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2 years

A friendly reminder that class is about your relationship to the means of production not what type of bread you eat.

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3 years

Tfw you find the uni library already has an e-copy of that weird book you need

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Jon Piccini

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5 years

Fraser anning was not elected with 19 votes, he was on the one nation ticket and they got enough votes to fill his quota. Saying that only a handful of people voted for him totally let’s his racist bullshit off the hook and doesn’t help us fight structural white supremacy

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2 years

Can now officially announce this improvement in my life trajectory.

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2 years

The journalism degree holder has logged on

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1 year

Australian firm to run British hulks for asylum seekers. Remarkably dense historical layering.

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Jon Piccini

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Labor is returning to being incredibly racist for no apparent reason. Nature is healing.

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3 years

Calling it, Gen x are the worst generation.

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Jon Piccini

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Legalise cannabis will have more seats in the Vic upper house than the greens lol.

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Socialist candidate beats UAP in far North Queensland electorate. Seems we should be talking about this!

First Nations woman from Far North Queensland helps left-wing party to its best results in the...

Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O'Shane's primary vote of just over 4 per cent may appear modest, but it is the Socialist Alliance's best-ever result in a seat outside Victoria and its best anywhere at this...

www.abc.net.au

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Jon Piccini

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1 year

My Uni is doing staff photo shoots next week, and has sent out a his and hers style guide to help us poor academics out. What do youse recon I should go with?

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2 years

Labor making election promises to the unemployed

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First, the set up. Kevin McCallister is accidentally left ‘home alone’ by his negligent parents as they embark on an overseas holiday. It’s interesting that his family’s destination was Paris. A metaphor for The US following France into the quagmire of indo China? Perhaps. 2/10

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You’ll never guess how this 35 year old just bought his first home (inter generational wealth transfer)

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Jon Piccini

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4 years

Today marks 52 years since Joh Bjelke-Peterson took over as premier of Queensland. Queensland’s finest decided to mark the occasion in traditional style: intimidating an elected representative in the dead of night.

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Alright whose writing a book on climate change and international law? Here’s your cover image. Canberra lakefront, yesterday. Credit @ LadyCJD

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Something going on here hey?

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Jon Piccini

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He's right. Nurses deserve $49/h plus allowances too. Let's do that.

taipan168

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For an example of what the CFMEU is costing taxpayers and the public, the wages they have strongarmed for lollipop people, a qualification that takes 1.5 days to obtain, are $49/hr plus allowances. The award wage is $28/hr. For comparison, a registered nurse gets paid $34/hr.

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Jon Piccini

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6 years

What the hell type of Benjamin button bullshit is this

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9 months

Historian here, change rarely happens via the official complaints process.

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2 years

Say what you will about Oz Faruqi, but he has an unparalleled capacity to drive the right people absolutely nuts

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Jon Piccini

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5 years

Say hello to my little friend - Arden Piccini born today at 12:02, 3.55 kg. Mum and bub well!

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Jon Piccini

@JonPiccini

2 years

A secret life of us reboot but they are now property owners campaigning against a medium density public housing development.

Kevin Perry

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An iconic Australian TV show will be announced as returning with new episodes tomorrow and personally I am very excited!

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Jon Piccini

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You can only call it an Accord process if it happened during the Hawke/Keating era. Otherwise it’s just sparkling class collaboration

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If I were designing a highway, I’d simply divert around the 800 year old immensely significant tree

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Australia does not have a ‘Pacific Family’ but rather a series of neo-colonial relationships with islands we don’t care about sinking.

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Jon Piccini

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Sorry everyone, I'm hearing that a rent freeze won't work without substantial increase in affordable housing and stricter rules forcing landlords to maintain their properties. Sadly, we may end up having to make the world even better :(

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Jon Piccini

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On 15-16 February 2003, almost a million Australians demonstrated against the looming second gulf war. I was one of them, a 15 year old student. We were called crazy for saying that saddam’s WMDs were a lie. Well...

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