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The 3 problems with the response to the protests: 1) In most cases law enforcement escalated unnecessarily. Clearing a civil disobedience protest should typically be done gently. Lifting the protestors and moving them off the scene rather than resorting to batons and irritants. 2) Law enforcement often failed to protect students from the significantly more dangerous counter protestors. 3) Law enforcement, the media, and the administration all egregiously and intentionally misrepresented the protestors, their behavior, and their objectives. 4) The protestors' demands are overwhelmingly reasonable. They essentially boil down to: a. Transparency in the university's investment policy. b. Moving investment away from firms actively engaged in supplying the ongoing conflict. c. A call for a cessation of hostilities. Given that the protestors have demonstrated a willingness to negotiate and bargain on these issues the proper response is a discussion followed by a substantive change in university policy in order to bring it more in line with basic reason and fairness.
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It's still worth addressing the morality, reasonableness, and sustainability of the underlying issue briefly given that the legal system is our best attempt at approximating these values. For example, one might note that a particular protest may potentially be illegal, but also note its similarity to previous civil disobedience movements which also violated the law but were crucial in establishing the protections we have today.
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@sackeshi That is completely irrelevant. Whether the police feel safe or not is their problem. The only issue relevant to the civilian is whether the orders are lawful. Civilians are not required to roll the window fully down. He lowered the window sufficiently to speak to them and for documents to be handed. He is not required to keep the window down either. Furthermore, he is not required to rush to comply with the officer's orders nor is he required to be respectful. However, the officers are required to be polite, professional, and to not escalate.
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@Alwayz114 I don't think it should be a follow up. It should be included in the same video. Because less people are likely to watch the follow up. It also encourages an excessively legalistic and technocratic approach to the law, whereas I think people need to get into the habit of considering an ethical consideration as part of legal analysis and not a half thought out endnote.
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@stefanandrews5098 Batman is not a contractor, he more loosely resembles a CI (Criminal Informant). - Batman is under no obligation to respond to the Signal, and often does not. - Gordon cannot order Batman, he simply makes requests. - There is no chain of command involved, and any potential cooperation seems predicated almost entirely on a personal relationship. In other words, it' not the Bat Signal Batman is responding to, but the person operating it. He will not respond in the same way if a LEO he doesn't trust operates it. - In most incarnations, the PD is officially unaware of the full extent of Batman's activities and it would be a stretch to suggest they are coordinating with each other. They occasionally receive a tip or exercise discretion to minimize public endangerment in ways that occasionally have the appearance of coordination.
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I feel like if you're hanging out with Crips, flashing Crip signs in photos, wearing their clothing, doing multiple cameos with Crip artists, and organizing alongside them to transport weapons and patrol the streets, the police would have no problem making the case that you're a Crip.
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It's no less disgusting than Depp pretending to play innocent victim despite the fact that this is most likely a case of mutual abuse and he is almost certainly a terrible person. The plaintiff and the defendant are always going to be biased towards their own perspective. Depp is not a victim here and his struggle is not representative of any male struggle. He's a sociopathic millionaire who married a woman in her twenties while he was 50, then definitely abused her and quite likely hit her. He was physically stronger than her, more wealthy than her, more accomplished in her career, far more experienced in life and relationships, and decades older than her. Even in a mutual abuse situation we know who had the lions share of the power. He is not a victim and quite deservedly needs to be blackballed. The only issue at question here is whether Amber deserves the same.
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@the_adc So, to be clear the US has some of the highest GDP per capita in the world, suggesting that we have more than enough wealth to support a much larger population. We have some of the lowest population density in the world, suggesting we have more than enough space to support a much larger population. This also suggests that the unhoused problem is not due to capacity issues, but rather due to uneven distribution of wealth. Which can be fixed with more progressive legislation. Fortunately, people who move to the US from other countries tend to lean progressive. So more people would also fix this problem. Finally, the US age pyramid is beginning to invert, suggesting that the US not only has space for more people, but also needs more people.
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Please discuss the current admin's violation of the Leahy Act and other related regulations in the conduct of the gen.
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Not really. This is an open and shut case.
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@deadwinterknight1981 Your example is flawed. Shooting someone and later finding out he was a rapist suggests you had no way of suspecting when you took the shot. You were not at a rape convention and did not witness any previous criminal behavior. In the case of the looters he arrived both with the predisposition that these people were likely potential looters, raised his gun in the belief that were engaged in criminality in line with the crimes he earlier fantasized about shooting people for.
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@paulbutkovich6103 1) Broken bones, head trauma, lacerations, & respiratory illness. This is remarkably easy to check and you should have done so yourself before asking. 3) I wouldn't call it usual. 4) "There isn't enough pressure to make them do those things" Until there is. Some colleges have already negotiated and met some of the students' demands. And this sort of civil disobedience has a decent track record of success. "Transparently would make their operations more difficult" That's the point. "How much actual investment is there?" Hundreds of millions. "Colleges have no power to affect other governments" This is a very silly point. It is not necessary to influence distant governments. First and foremost academia can exert significant influence on the US government. The current operation could not continue without US endorsement, cooperation, and financing. If the US pulls support, the conflict is over. Aside from that, it is well known that academia has a major influence of distant governments. Both in validating their legitimacy, financial support, innovation & cooperative research, and in setting the public narrative. A call for cessation from major academic institutions in the US exerts significant pressure. Finally, we should note that academic endorsement of immediate cessation of hostilities has a significant effect on public opinion influencing voting patterns and investment decisions globally.
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 @the_adc But objectively the US is underpopulated, ranking in the bottom quartile of global population densities.
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@IIBr0KenII You can check Tucker Carlson's page on Politifact for a very long list. Come on bro, Google's your friend.
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Wow. I requested this video. Never thought you'd actually do it!
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It would've been nice to see your opinion on the judge's procedural decisions. Most people are grudgingly accepting of the final outcome but there is a lot of unresolved resentment related to the judge's actions. Eg: - Usage of the word "victims" vs "looters" - Barring of video footage of Kyle expressing problematic opinions on use of force - Admonishing the prosecutor for casting Kyle's silence as incriminating - Dropping the lesser charges & the questionable interpretation of the "for the purposes of hunting" legislation.
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Will Smith has classically toxic masculine beliefs. He's upset because he perceived Jada's committing adultery with a teenager as a direct affront to his manhood, despite the fact that this appears to have been done in response to his own infidelity. It's because he feels that a woman stepping out is somehow greater disrespect than a man doing so. After a year of being publicly lampooned over this, he saw this as an opportunity to demonstrate to Jada and the public at large that he is still "a man". Thus we have this instance of public bullying and assault of a much smaller innocent victim as an act of performative masculinity facilitated by a sense of celebrity entitlement to break the law wherever he feels like it. And of course the subsequent framing as "chivalry". This was a highly calculated move that would not have been done if the comedian were Alonzo Bodden, Joe Rogan, Brendan Schaub, or anyone not half his size.
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@Avrelianvs "just snapping" has never been an excuse for breaking the law.
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@Vendrix86 IRL professional mixed martial artist Phoenix Jones armoured up in Dragon Skin & ostensibly attempted vigilante crime fighting. Although he apparently saved a couple of people early on, it very quickly devolved into his use of questionable tactics & running up against the law. Despite initially expressing his contempt for (and specifically targeting) drug dealers, he was eventually caught in a police sting himself, attempting to traffick narcotics to the community. I like to call this, the Dark Phoenix saga.
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@paulbutkovich6103 1) "I don't consider those lasting injuries" Fortunately you're not a physician. Neurons do not regenerate. This is why all brain trauma is cumulative. Broken bones frequently result in permanent changes to the integrity of the skeletal system. That student that had his orbital bone broken will likely permanently be more susceptible to a similar injury. Sprains, strains, and tears may similarly result in permanent changes to the underlying structures (scar tissue, later advent of arthritis, etc.) However, I think this all of this is besides the point. The question was whether "serious" injuries have occurred. The answer is unequivocally yes. It serves no purpose to linger beyond that on this issue except in some misguided and unethical attempt to downplay the seriousness of the police escalation by suggesting that the victims may one day have a full recovery. 3) "I mean Fox News regular does this" If it were just Fox News we wouldn't be having this conversation. 4) "1 agree to divest, some to transparency, some to open discussions" You're describing excellent progress so far. "they don't have the support of the majority" Some of their demands do. "It's difficult" That's why protest is required. "the influence of universities on the US government is over-stated" This is too silly a comment to address. "US influence on ISRL is overstated, cutting support won't stop them." Their prime Minister explicitly stated that cutting funding would stop them. Virtually every political analyst on the planet agrees on this point.
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@TheGreyShaman When Mr. Clean goes on TRT
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@JayVal90 You did. law is established through legislation and precedent. The video explained that precedent that homeowners could not set booby traps in an empty home.
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@superspooky4580 Fair enough, but the couple had no intention of harming criminals. They intended to harm anyone who walked through the door. Cop, firefighter, child, etc.
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@thebrsrkr6428 You're having an argument with someone who isn't me. I didn't make half these points. I just pointed out that the analogy used was flawed. Tbh you're kind of all over the place, so I'm reluctant to engage. For example, pointing out he was predisposed to believe certain people would be engaged in criminality is different from commenting on whether that belief was justified. In either case, the belief is present in Rittenhouse's case and absent in the rapist analogy. With regard to writing off his previous claims as "locker room talk" given that he spent time training for, prepared for, secured weapons & equipment for, dressed appropriately for, hung out with vigilantes who, and ultimately succeeded in shooting as described in his earlier ideation, we should be a little more careful about dismissing then so outright.
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@paulbutkovich6103 "What exactly is the movement trying to accomplish?" I already listed the movement's demands. "Is ending the conflict an ethical imperative?" There are many ways to end the conflict, ending the conflict the proper way is. Specifically, an immediate cessation of hostilities, the release of all the taken people, the immediate entry of aid and the rebuilding of damaged areas. Thereafter the focus should be on reparation, the arrest of law breakers on both sides, the removal of the ISRL annexation, and the establishment of either a free PLSN state or the alteration of the ISRL state such that everyone in it is free and treated equally.
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@Leyrann lol Well, that's certainly one (thickheaded) approach to interpreting my words. "You assume rich men are naturally abusive" This might be a simple reading comprehending deficiency on your part. We do not have to assume abuse on anyone's part because there seems to be ample evidence of mutual abuse. Depp has already admitted to this. I made no assumptions. "Sometimes a weaker person may abuse a stronger person" Yes, but we're not comparing a physical weaker person to a stronger person. We're comparing a weaker, less wealthy, less experienced, less famous, less powerful, less charismatic, younger, less career established person. What you're doing here is multiplying improbabilities. A child on a playground may abuse a stronger child. But that becomes infinitely less likely when the purported victim is not just stronger. But also faster, older, more experienced, more popular, more well liked, richer, and has already admitted to abusing the younger, weaker, poorer, less popular, less experienced and less well liked child. If a graduating senior tells me he had to fight a kindergartener who he has already admitted to repeatedly abusing that senior is getting in trouble every single time. I'm sorry this playground analogy is quite stupid and inappropriate, but please remember that you brought it up.
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@relaxolotl_ltoloxaler "So who has a history of abuse here?" Both? Depp has already confessed to actions which constitute severe abuse. We don't need to prove this. He only denies having physically hit her, although he repeatedly stated that he also does not remember his actions at all as he blacked out often and therfore may have actually hit her. Aside from that multiple witness statements do seem to corroborate that he did hit her as well as a pile of physical evidence. We also note that he repeatedly expressed violent intent against her and these are well documented. He also often engaged in erratic physical and destructive physical behavior (smashing and defacing physical property, throwing and breaking things, etc.) In this context it's reasonable to conclude that he hit her.
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I can't support anyone who did a "gen". I would not have supported "the bad regime" in Germany so I cannot support Harris.
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@JayVal90 14:45 to 15:35 defense points out booby trapping a home to protect yourself while inside is legal (established law). Opposition counters that the very same established case law makes the booby trap illegal if you are not in the home. This is neither disputed by defense attorney, judge, or legal eagle. Clearly the video indicates the law already existed. A couple of people in the comments have confirmed this by pulling up the info. Lurk around.
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The important thing to remember is that the totality of the evidence does seem to indicate that Depp likely did indeed beat his wife. He is certainly an abusive partner and likely physically violent. For whatever problems she likely also had, we know this is true. He shouldn't be anyone's hero.
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@someanon6612 I think he's referring to a mine as in excavation site, not landmine.
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... and clothes
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@Avrelianvs the case did not exonerate the burglar.
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@jamesmccomb9525 "Snapping" as a defense usually refers to acting in hot blood or temporary insanity. Both are precluded by the premeditation inherent to setting a booby trap in advance. The kind of "snapping" @Erich was referring to was generally becoming more frustrated with the situation without being in a compromised mental state. This defense was clearly rejected by the court.
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"In the criminal justice system, the term “victim” no longer merely describes a witness who the prosecution holds out to have suffered harm due to defendant’s criminal conduct. “Victim” now defines an individual who is an independent participant in the criminal case under federal or state victims’ rights laws.1 Thus, the term “victim” denotes a person’s legal status and defines the level and extent of participation that the individual is entitled to in the criminal case. This status is significant because, just as constitutional protections attach once a person accused of a crime gains the legal status of “defendant,” a statutory and/or constitutional “victim” can exercise certain participatory rights unavailable to the general public. The criteria for obtaining victim status varies among jurisdictions; however, since many victims’ rights attach pretrial, if not pre-charging,2 the determination of who is a “victim” cannot be a factual determination dependent on defendant’s guilt or innocence. For this reason, using the term “victim” during court proceedings is proper, as it accurately identifies a victim’s legal role in the proceeding" - National Crime Victim Law Institute at Lewis & Clark Law school NVCLI News 11th Edition 2009
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@Mike Williams you don't understand what "whataboutism" means. That was not it.
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@Hahahahaaahaahaa The evidence does seem to indicate that Depp abused her and almost certainly hit her. The only issue at question is the degree to which this was a mutually abusive situation. However, even in a mutually abusive situation I think the fault lies primarily with Depp. He was bigger, stronger, older, richer, more experienced in life, and more established in his career. He married a young girl in her 20s while he was like a 50 year old double divorcee. He then appeared to be extremely controlling, jealous, and domineering. In this context even if she was somehow the Joker it's very difficult not to see the fault lying primarily with him. This decision is more reflective of a jury that was dazzled by his star power and has some internalized misogyny that rejects imperfect female victims, than it is reflective of the actual evidence.
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Yes. To be clear: giving the nascent fashies a public flogging effigy of the old admin to make a drawn out example of would only serve to consolidate their power and hasten autocracy. It's good for no one.
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@paulbutkovich6103 "Isn't the goal to prevent entrance into RFH?" No. Literally no one has ever included this as a goal. "I struggle to think of a protest confined to campuses" The current protests are not confined to college campuses. Tha vast majority have nothing to do with colleges. "They're ready to go it alone without the US" This is not true now nor has it ever been in the history of the country. The US has ended operations overnight on previous occasions by credibly raising the spectre of discontinuation of support. The ISRL funds earmarked for the operation currently are already severely affecting the economy and those funds assume that the US will contribute the majority of spending. The US earmarked for ISRL more than double their entire operation budget. And this is after already giving more than that this year. Their premier has repeatedly publicly stated that the current operation would not be possible without US support. Not to mention that US diplomatic support is all that prevents an enforceable security council order immediately ending the operation, the entry of neighboring powers, etc. No political analyst today believes remotely that this operation could survive US withdrawal.
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@paulbutkovich6103 "Compared to an ISRL budget of $23 billion." The ISRL budget is not $23 billion. It was $23 billion in 2023 inclusive of US aid. This included the cost of more than just the specific operation in GZ.
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Will Smith has classically toxic masculine beliefs. He's upset because he perceived Jada's committing adultery with a teenager as a direct affront to his manhood, despite the fact that this appears to have been done in response to his own infidelity. It's because he feels that a woman stepping out is somehow greater disrespect than a man doing so. After a year of being publicly lampooned over this, he saw this as an opportunity to demonstrate to Jada and the public at large that he is still "a man". Thus we have this instance of public bullying and assault of a much smaller innocent victim as an act of performative masculinity facilitated by a sense of celebrity entitlement to break the law wherever he feels like it. And of course the subsequent framing as "chivalry". This was a highly calculated move that would not have been done if the comedian were Alonzo Bodden, Joe Rogan, Brendan Schaub, or anyone not half his size.
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@the_adc The stat you're referring to is Gdp per capita, of which the US is in the top 10, further confirming the notion of underpopulation according to your metric. You've just argued against your own point.
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The video does not indicate that they were warned regarding deadly force booby traps. Even the government must warn when a fence is electrified. A simple sign requesting that you do not trespass is not sufficient warning. I would've awarded a significantly higher punitive amount. Stupidity like this is unacceptable. What if police or fire personnel needed to access the home? What if a child wandered in?
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When I saw this judge was assigned I expected it to go this way. Terrible injustice. But then again, Biden is doing a gen in PLSN, which is the worst crime ever. So, I'm neutral on the issue.
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Domestic violence against men may be underreported but it's also not as big a deal. A lot of the people complaining about this are whiney MRAs who use it as a cover to launder their misogyny. Let's be clear: 1) There is no comparison here in terms of the rate. Women are far more likely to be the victims of physical abuse by men than vice versa. 2) When DV does occur the risk of serious injury is far greater when it is man on woman, than vice versa. These two issues are not even in the same ballpark. 3) The only exception to the previous rule is when weapons are involved, in which case the courts actually do take female on male violence about as seriously as the opposite. 4) The major cause of underreporting of female on male domestic violence is not feminism but patriarchy. Let's remember that toxic masculine gender roles are a product of the latter not the former. 5) The few people sincerely advocating for awareness of anti-male domestic violence are in fact feminists. Who in their inclusiveness consider LGBT stats as well. For the most part the MRAs complaining are just trying to promote false equivalencies in order to push their fundamentally regressive agenda.
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@foegettergames252 Yes, but if the size difference is really that big, I too would make fun of you. Let's be clear: I'm simply not going to take it as seriously when someone complains about getting beat up by a person half their size who is weaker, slower, and less durable than them. I mean seriously you could literally sit on this person and fart on them for 45 minutes and they'd literally have no options. Hell, if you decided to just sprint away they would never catch up to you. If you decided to physically pick this person up and put them down curbside for trash removal they would have no say in the matter. The serious cases of male victim domestic violence typically involve male-on-male relationships, or a handicapped partner, drug use, or weapons. But no, I'm not going to take it seriously if you're just losing one on one fights repeatedly.
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@Mike Williams lol congratulations. You've absolutely proven that Google is wasted on thickheaded people such as yourself. Don't worry, I'm here to help. @puplerains' comment was neither a counter-accusation, nor a "different issue". Rather it was clarifying context for the very same issue. The point of the comment is that underreporting of one specific form of DV is also present in broader category of DV. Thus causality here may be linked. Perhaps if we take a topic you're not so emotional about, you can see this more clearly: If you say, "over the past 3 years, all the mockingbirds in this forest have disappeared", a whataboutism would be for me to say, "So what? High school drop out rates are increasing, maybe you should focus on that instead" You see? I am changing the subject in order to deflect. If, however I say, "actually, all the wildlife has disappeared, so this might not be specifically about the birds alone" This is not a whataboutism. I have not changed the topic as a deflection mechanism, rather I have introduced contextual facts which give us a greater nuance about the original topic of conversation. Namely, that a phenomenon we may falsely identify as unique to a specific population may actually be related to broader dynamics within the overarching population. @purplerain does this when he relates a specific claim about female-on-male DV to broader patterns we already know exist among all DV. Don't worry, read it slower and you'll get it. You're welcome 😉
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@spiderlily723 lol I'm a dude. I once had a woman that lived with me try to get violent. You know what I did? I left her alone until she cooled down and then helped her move out. None of my ex-girlfriends have years of photographs with bruised and cut up faces. They don't have text messages of me apologizing for ambiguously monstrous behavior because I got drunk. I've never been recorded apologizing for beating up a woman. There are no witnesses ready to come forward to claim that they saw me kick my girlfriend. No medical professionals willing to testify that my girlfriend has been complaining for years about domestic violence. Sorry buddy, it's not that hard. Johnny was clearly beating her. It doesn't take "misandry" to state the obvious.
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I suppose they all sexually harassed Anita Hill as well. Give me a break dude.
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