Comments by "Matthew Ingerson" (@matthewingerson) on "Secular Talk"
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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The moderate right-wing Democratic Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, just signed a similar bill into law the other day. As a rule, I don't believe what the extremist right-wing Republicans OR the moderate right-wing Democrats say until a bill is signed into law.
And I don't rest any easier until a law has been functioning for at least a decade without some moderate-to-extremist right-wingers running it through the right-wing American court system. People rested easy for decades after Roe V. Wade, and look where that got 'em.
Furthermore, I don't really trust any laws or outcomes produced by jurisdictions controlled by right-wingers, which is basically 95% of all jurisdictions in the world.
People trusted that chattel-slavery was over when the right-wing extremist Confederacy was defeated. But the right-wing moderate Americans let the right-wing extremist Confederates off the hook.
In fact, the moderate right-wing Americans helped the extremist right-wing Confederates to develop a caste-like system to separate chattel-slaves and wage-slaves. And, now, slavery is still alive and well in America.
And people trusted that Nazism was over when the right-wing extremist Nazis were defeated. But the right-wing moderate Americans let the right-wing extremist Nazis off the hook.
In fact, the moderate right-wing Americans brought the right-wing extremist Nazis right in the front door and put the Nazis into positions of power in American government and society. And, now, Nazism is alive and well in America.
I could go on, but I'm trying to regulate my blood pressure before the moderate-to-extremist right-wing American-Confederate-Nazi enslavers come knocking.
...I wonder how large the contrast will be between the quality of the lunches provided by the extremist and moderate right-wingers to the children of wage-slaves in the public schools and the chattel-slaves in the prisons/jails/detention centers, in comparison to the lunches they'll provide to actual Leftists at the "camps." 🤔
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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First: Vapes, soda, and Twinkies shouldn't exist.
Second: Working-class people need help rewiring how they think about things, because the wealthy-class right-wingers have been so successful with their propaganda campaigns, and Kyle is proof here.
Even though the wealthy-class makes up a minority of the population, they still rule over the working-class majority. Kyle knows this, he talks about it, and it's no secret. And Kyle has also expressed that he doesn't like that dynamic, whereby the wealthy-class minority rules over the working-class majority.
But, on this topic of vapes, Kyle doesn't even want the working-class majority to rule. Kyle wants what Kyle wants, just like wealthy-class right-wingers.
Wealthy-class right-wingers believe they have the right to do whatever they want, no matter how many people have to suffer. And they pass on that individualist doctrine to the working-class via propaganda. And Kyle has embodied that doctrine here.
Kyle has been indoctrinated to believe that his personal decision (as the autocratic minority) outweighs the collective decision (of the democratic majority), just like the wealthy-class propaganda tells us to.
All that said, I'll get back to my original statement: Vapes, soda, and Twinkies shouldn't exist.
One: No working-class person should have to spend time producing poisonous vapes, soda, or Twinkies.
Two: No working-class person's livelihood should depend upon their willingness to work in the production of poisonous vapes, soda, or Twinkies.
Three: No working-class person should have to spend their time taking care of people who over-consume poisonous vapes, soda, or Twinkies.
Four: The wealthy-class shouldn't be able to use poisonous vapes, soda, and Twinkies to create more wealth for themselves.
Anyway, it's not surprising that so many working-class people suffer. I mean, of course, some working-class people suffer because of the wealthy-class people who cause their suffering. But some working-class people suffer because of the behaviors, addictions, and indoctrinations of fellow working-class mates. That's the kind of working-class mate Kyle is being here.
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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@couchgrouches7667 Oh, I'm non-violent, I meant the concept. But, in order to eradicate the worst characteristics of "whiteness," some authoritarian-right-wingers are going to have to be dealt with in some kind of meaningful way.
And, if history is any indicator of the future -- which, it is -- the authoritarian-right-wingers in America are in for a bad time.
Of course, I'm talking about working-class authoritarian-right-wingers having a bad time -- the working-class will take it the hardest -- because the wealthy-class authoritarian-right-wingers will sneak out the backdoor, leaving the working-class authoritarian-right-wingers holding the metaphorical bag.
But, one way or another, the rest of the world is going to deal with the worst of America's white-supremacist, right-wing-authoritarianism. Just as history indicates.
Just like the the rest of the world had to deal with the worst of "whiteness" in the authoritarian-right-wing hellscapes of Nazi-Germany and the Confederate-South. And we know how the rest of the world dealt with that.
:)
Alas, I'm non-violent. So I'm just hoping that the knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing-authoritarians and the working-class fools who worship them, breed themselves out of existence. I don't want good working-class people to suffer just because the white-supremacist right-wingers had to be regulated again.
But the odds aren't on my side.
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This is NOT astonishing, unless your blind or stupid. This is the normal right-wing politics of autocracy, feudalism, capitalism, oligarchy, monarchy, & theocracy. Right-wing Saudis & Americans are autocrats, feudalists, capitalists, oligarchs, monarchists, & theocrats.
This right-wing bulllsh!t is as old as the invention of currency.
This right-wing bullsh!t has been going on for all of recorded history.
If you're only just now finding yourself "astonished," then, either:
(A)You haven't been paying attention to the astonishing historical and international contexts of right-wing politics.
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(B)you've been incapable of comprehending the astonishing historical and international contexts of right-wing politics.
The thing that I find most astonishing is the ignorance & astonishment of most working-class Americans who have allowed themselves to be governed by two corrupt right-wing political parties that are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by corrupt, wealthy right-wingers.
This is NOT astonishing -- this is normal right-wing abhorrence.
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This is why education and historical context are so important. The way Biden used the word makes perfect sense to people who are educated. Only uneducated fools would believe otherwise. Only educated knaves would pretend otherwise. So, the questions you should ask yourself are the following: "Is Kyle a fool who doesn't comprehend what Biden meant? Or, Is Kyle a knave who is pretending not to comprehend it, for clicks?"
Disclaimer: I do not support the right-winger, Joe Biden. Nor do I support the right-wingers Trump, Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnell, Bush, or Clinton. F*kc the right-wing Democrats AND the right-wing Republicans. F*kc ALL the right-wingers.
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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@bushwacka5187 Since the removal of qualified immunity, those stupid cops have decreased the enforcement of what little bit of the law they are actually capable of understanding.
Qualified immunity allows cops to be ignorant, brutal criminals. And without qualified immunity, those stupid cops are realizing that they don't even know just exactly how stupid they actually are. It is frightening for stupid people who are realizing just how stupid they really are. And new fears stifle people, especially the stupidest people, like cops.
So, those stupid cops, who are having life-changing epiphanies about their own deficiencies, are resigning themselves, internally. They are choosing to not do their jobs, thus reducing the chances of themselves committing any stupidity, thus relieving themselves of any responsibility or consequences.
If they don't do anything stupid, then they won't get in trouble for being stupid.
If they don't do anything at all, then they won't get in trouble at all.
And, thus, if the stupid cops don't do anything at all, then crime goes up. And then, the stupidest working-class citizens get mad at other citizens instead of getting mad at stupid, brutal cops for not doing their jobs. Working-class dupes get mad at their working-class mates instead of getting mad at the wealthy-class, right-wing parasites who perpetuate the conditions which make crime more probable.
Then, the cops use the increase in crime, which they helped to create, to make the case for more cops and less transparency and accountability for cops.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Now I'm wondering if what I said has much to do with what you said. Maybe I'm stupid.
Well, if I am stupid, then at least it won't get anyone killed.
And, despite the difficulties that come with abolishing qualified immunity, I still very much agree that it should be abolished.
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