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First they came for Alex. What makes you think they won’t come for you or me next? All because we might have posted a single picture of a cartoon frog. There’s something more sinister going on in Silicon Valley, and it’s been going on for awhile. It must come to an end.Related content
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The stupidity is strong with them. Just the other day I quoted one of the Leftist Heroes to show how racist that person was. The reply was typical, "The person never said it cause Scopes said so." to "You're a racist cause you don't like Obama!"
I guarantee you that the censorship these fools are advocating for will be turned on them.
Worst part is. . .those of us who know better will probably be lined up against the wall with them. . .which includes with their whimpering and moaning. . .wonder if the Overlords will let us be shot separately from the Leftist Useful Idiots.
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I agree with you, but for those who do not --
Remember folks: everything that makes you feel emotionally uncomfortable, is nothing more than a delusional conspiracy theory.
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Remember SJW's don't exist and all those Gater's are just complaining about nothing
It's kinda weird hearing this from guys who are actual fans(as in actually buying and consuming) willing to take any and all SJW-cringe and changes by them
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Humanity has been dumbed down. Even the so-called Truth Movement takes queues from the Main Stream. Every time the MSM provides a distraction, the independent media dives into it on command and by the command of the main stream. When the MSM wants to distract the masses away from larger more important issues, the independent media helps them do it. Because the independent media is run by humans and humans have been dumbed down.
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Not sure how that explains Anti-Anti SJW’s existing
Just so you know I consider Anti-Anti-SJW’s to be rather moderate versions of SJW’s who are surprisingly enough actual continued loyal fans and consumers of things SJW’s have invaded. They may not advocate doing the worst of what SJW’s do like try getting people fired, but they believe what they say about certain people being worse than they actually are and can withstand any and all cringey stuff in entertainment done with an SJW agenda
Somehow to them SJW’s are just a “boogeyman”
I don’t think its from ghe media ghat they get to thinking that
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I'm not talking about SJWs. I'm talking about classic divide and conquer, regardless of what buzzwords are being used. The same old tricks always works, regardless as to how much information any group or movement gathers about those tricks. People still fall for them anyways, even while knowing better. Because we live in a society in which the ego of the individual is god-king. Which is why popularity, clicks and likes end up being all that is important to even so-called Truthers. And why even so-called Truthers are invested in perpetual-fighting every bit as much as the so-called elites. When people make fighting a primary aspect of their overall identity, people always defend their identities. So-called truthers condemn the so-called elites for being addicted to war and blood lust. But the so-called truthers are no better. Both the so-called elites and so-called truthers feel absolutely justified in everything that they do.
Until humanity realized that humanity as a whole (no exceptions) has a collective mental disorder, there can be no healing. No solutions. Because as Einstein said, you can not solve a problem using the same thinking that created it. And all most humans want to do and are willing to do, is use only exactly the same thinking that created it. And most humans are not willing to use any other type of thinking. Humanity is addicted to drama, literally. And most of humanity does not even want to acknowledge it. Denial is pervasive.
The old saying about the meek shall inherit the earth, has some scientific merit to it. Meek means strong and wise, it does not mean weak. In short, it means a mature and rational human being. It does not take rocket science to understand that when someone insists on being self-destructive and hits the point of no return, those people can not and will not survive. They are doomed. Only the people who are willing to come out of denial before they hit the point of no return, can heal and save themselves. Most people simply are just not going to make it through this current period in history. Its not going to be nukes or doomsday, it is just going to be a whole lot of individuals becoming increasingly more self destructive until their consequences wipe them out.
When someone passes the point of no return, they get more irrational. More foaming at the mouth insane. It is like dealing with a rabid dog. And there is no cure. A rabid dog destroys itself. Because of its sickness, it no longer has what it requires to survive. This is why when a human becomes increasingly irrational past this point of no return, they are immune to facts. Immune to logic. Immune to reality. Nothing can be said to them that will make any sense to them. And it does no matter whether they are a top 1% elite, or a truther, or whatever someone is virtue signaling themselves to be. Humanity has a mental illness, collectively.
A person can only heal, if they can accept that they are sick. Otherwise, there is no healing. There is no saving them. They are screwed.
So for the long run: humanity will be fine. But pending some astronomically improbable miracle -- most people who are alive today will not live to see that day come. Some of us will. Enough of us to continue the species and create a better world. But not most of the people alive right at this current moment.
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For now I just hope any Dangerous Hypocritical Megaprudes, both anything similar to the Religious Right which censored videogames in the USA, go so far as to enforce the worst of Sharia Law and all of these stupid narcissitic Far Left SJW idiots die off and let people have fun
And yeah, same old tricks work again and again because people use different names for things
Really wish people just calmed down and focused on soft hedonism, which is what I call spending most of their time not on drugs, alcohol, unprotected sex, stupid parties or satisfying their egos horribly or joining a terrorist group because that somehow makes them heroes
But instead spending so much time focusing on having fun playing videogames, reading books, fapling to porn etc
Or even making their own works of entertainment not jyst to satisfy their ego but because ghey legitimately have fun doing it
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Exactly, thats also why when I talk about something I will list off an array of buzzwords and end the list with a phrase that sounds something like "... or whatever other buzzword one wants to use that means the exact same thing, that makes their hearts sing with joy". I am always making the point that the reason divide and conquer works, is because most people do not perceive beyond the buzzword level of reality. All you have to do is take a form of tyranny and call it freedom, and people will rally around it, support it and defend it -- while condemning anyone who sees through the con. Similarly, all you have to do is take any form of freedom and call it terrorism, and once again -- people will fight against it and condemn it. People are not taught to think critically and analyze data. Well, perhaps they are at the Kindergarten and First Grade levels but beyond that, they are discouraged. We go from critical thinking songs little kids sing like "one of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn't belong" to "pay no attention to what does or does not belong, obey the buzzwords and accept blind obedience as your lord, master and god!"
This creates a situation in which people become immune to facts and reality. It no longer matters what data you show them or if you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that 2+2 does in fact equal 4. They will say that 2+2 = elephant, that up is left and down is side to side and rocks are soft and you can breathe water and anyone who says otherwise is a racist, sexist, terrorist bigot minion of the patriarchy or -- an illuminati cia shill working for the globalist elites -- or whatever.
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And funnily enough you don’t even need an officially established fascist/communist dictatorship in place observing everyone 24/7 to achieve this
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All you need is an unthinking traumatized stockholm syndrome population looking for babysitters. Once you have that, any surveillance technology is just redundancy for the purposes of showing off, just because you can.
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Traumatized? Stockholm Syndrome?
How does that apply to Westerners like yourselves?
I was thinking that your current state is due to the media and politicians succeeding in making people think that Capitalism is Fascism or we’re all racist bigoted assholes(because crusades, salem witch hunts and the inquisition)who have white provilage and so on
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It applies to all of humanity. I've gone into deep details on this stuff in many memes, many videos, and over many years. I can't answer you in one simple reply. If everything I've said in bulk content does not provide clarity in massive detail, then I'm not sure what a response that is only going to appear vague no matter now many paragraphs I type, is going to do.
The only other thing I can do is refer to you a very good audiobook that I think explains the state of humanity and why it is in that state, better than anything I've ever said:
It is under an hour long.
My short answer is: narcissism.
But in order to even know what that implies, one has to have done enough study to be able to understand it, otherwise terminology is just meaningless buzzwords.
Thats another part of the problem. People have been dumbed down. Thats not any attempt to insult anyone. People simply just do not want to look into anything. They want quick buzzword-level explanations to everything, but that never actually explains anything. It is not capable of doing so. People have lost their curiosity and they consider actually deeply learning anything to be some sort of a time wasting burden. When people get into that state, they gladly take orders from anyone willing to issue them.
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Narcissism in the disguise of compassion.
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I think you might mean to say: appeasement is narcissism disguised as compassion.
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Works too, people who bow down and appease them aren’t helping minorities, they’re feeding these guy’s egos
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Whether someone is looking to appease or be appeased, it is all two sides of the same coin.
You might call it two forms of the illusion of control.
#1 - the illusion of control externalized
#2 - the illusion of control internalized
Externalized, a person thinks that attempting to dominate people in their external reality provides safety through control.
Internalized, a person thinks that safety comes from being controlled.
Being two sides of one coin, both exist inside of each control freak, one is just more dominant than the other.
Slave masters are addicted to enslaving others and therefore will do anything to maintain their insatiable and ever-growing addiction. This leads to them being able to be manipulated and controlled by others through the blind spot in their arrogance. The more they are manipulated, they slowly shift more from slave masters to being slaves themselves. A fall from social power instead of a rise to it.
Slaves are addicted to having slave masters and thus will do anything they command, including externalized acts against others. The more the slaves cry victim and in this victim identity perform externalized acts against others, they slowly shift more from the desire to remain a slave to the desire to enslave others. A rise to social power instead of a fall from it.
All of it being illusions because in either case, it is no more empowering than a crack addiction.
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Reminds me, I heard somewhere that Slavery was actually economically impractical in the long run and far more expensive than just hiring some low paying person
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Depends on what you mean by slavery. Most people think its only slavery if whips and chains are involved. Just like most people think something is only a prison if there are cages and guards.
The most effective form of slavery, is prison. The most effective prison, is the prison of the mind.
GOVERNMENTAL
GOVERN-MENTAL
CONTROL-MIND
Brave New World and 1984 are not warnings of things to come, they are admissions about how the world has always been. There is no new world order, just the old world order thats always been in charge.
Welcome to the plantation.
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You don't necessarily need a "Big Brother" or camera-tv's everywhere connected to the government office to establish an Orwellian Society, people end up policing each other or looking at each other and remembering.
It's not something only a Fascist or Communist Nation can achieve too
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Exactly. This is the most efficient tool of government. This is why mind control is always government focus. Cameras everywhere and agencies and physical means of control, can be too much of a hassle. But if you can mind control the people to police themselves -- this has little expense for government.
There is no greater a slave, than the slave who thinks he is free.
This is the most efficient form of control for psychopaths.
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You forgot the existence of media, unfortunately for governments and corporations, yes I'm also talking about corrupt and/or incompetent companies that blame their customers. We have lots of people on Youtube and individual blogs and forums, and if those places ban or remove some people they disagree with there are other places they can speak out and their followers will look
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I did not forget, it is all one and the same thing. It is easy for people to be so focused on the fingers that they are blind to the existence of the hand.
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There is something deeply distasteful about "first they came for..." hyperbole. The original refers to one of the worst cases of authoritarian dictatorships in humanity's history, which saw millions slaughtered for no reason at all. When you equate that to private companies booting an obnoxious asshole off their platform, well within their rights as well, it's just... tasteless.
Jones is not the jews in nazi germany. He's not been silenced, or imprisoned, or persecuted, or killed for his beliefs. He got booted off two major platforms, but his website is still very much intact. If you're going to criticize, then do so correctly and appropriately.
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But when the NFL does it, it's racist.
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They have a right to do it as a private entity. Likewise, it's our right to criticize that decision as cowardly.
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You are absolutely right, they can do that. But how is it cowardly.
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To force their players to avoid as simple an act as kneeling? Yeah, cowardly.
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No, it isn't. Employees should not be making political statements on the clock.
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You coud just as easily argue that standing up for the anthem is a political statement. After all, why wouldn't it be? You do so supposedly out of respect for your country and what it stands for... and that's a political act in itself.
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Yes, except that standing is the almost universally accepted norm, and is thus, in-and-of-itself, not a political statement. Even U.S. servicemen stand and salute foreign national anthems.
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Its being an accepted norm doesn't make it not political. When you take a stance for something- as you do when you stand for the anthem, showing your approval of the nation- then that is, in fact, a political act. Supporting the status quo is as political as opposing it.
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Kneeling would be fine, if it was not politically motivated. Kaepernick did not kneel because he felt standing was disrespectful, or simply to be different he knelt as a form of protest, which is inappropriate. Standing is a show of respect to the host nation; if you cannot stand, then do not participate in the ceremony at all.
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Why is it "inappropriate" to protest? Your initial issue was protesting as an employee of a private company, not protesting in and of itself. Why is it wrong to protest a nation if you believe that nation is treating you and your people unfairly?
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It is inappropriate to protest both on your employer's dime and during any country's national anthem. If you want to protest, don't participate in the anthem at all.
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Protesting and the ability to speak up against the status quo is an essential part of any free democracy. You want conformity? Go live in a dictatorship.
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If I protested at work, I would be fired, or at the very least subjected to a lesser disciplinary action. Football players are no different. Their job is play football, not make political commentary. Of they want to protest, they need to do so off the clock. The NFL was generous by allowing them to protest by remaining in the locker room. Personally, teams needs to go back to remaining in the locker room until after the anthem. Again, if you are going to protest a nation's anthem, then don't participate in the anthem at all.
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Again: why is political action allowed if it affirms the status quo, but not if it challenges it? That is just cowardice, stagnation.
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Who is Jon Galt?
It has nothing to do with the nature of protest in-and-of-itself, as I have repeatedly stated. It is the manner in which the protest is being staged that is inappropriate. Nobody, regardless of their opinion, should protest on the clock. That is not what their employer is paying them for. Do it off the clock and out of uniform, when you are NOT representing your employer or their clients. Nor should someone protest during a national ceremony, except by boycotting the ceremony completely. Lastly, Kapernick's "protest" is itself pointless endeavour, as there is no status quo being challenged. Contrary to the leftist narrative, blacks are not being murdered by cops in record numbers. If Kaepernick was protesting the over-use of force by police, MAYBE his protest would mean something. However, as it stands, it is racist at best.
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A psychopathic mary sue invented by a philosphical hack who needed an ubermensch to epitomize her psychotic cult of egoism?
People have a right to protest, even if it's at work. Strikes, for example, are a protest carried out directly in relation to one's workplace, and are perfectly legal at that. Capernick did nothing wrong. He had a right to protest, and they had a right to fire him for it.
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Boy, are you retarded.
First, Jon Galt is a representation of what America used to be - industrious, innovative, and valuing individualism over collectivism. He is a manifestation of our nation's best qualities, at least before everyone started demanding that their neighbor take care of them. Second, workers on strike are NOT on the clock, nor are they getting paid by their employers, they are being paid by their union.
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He's a psychopath who literally only cares about himself, because ayn rand viewed empathy for others as a weakness. Hence, her heroes all behave exactly like pscyhopaths because psychopaths, lacking empathy for others, are complete egoists. The perfect randians, you might say.
As I said: you still have a right to protest at work. Especially if it's non-intrusive, like Kapernick's was.
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This is why nobody takes leftists like you seriously. You are completely devoid of critical thinking and utterly obsessed with empathy. Galt, Rearden, and D. Taggert are not lacking in empathy, the rest of the country is simply overly concerned with it. Taggert's brother refused to close or decrease traffic on his Mexican line because it was "helping people," even as it dragged his company down. He refused to try a revolutionary new metal for his rails because of all the steel workers who would lose their jobs if he changed suppliers, even as his railway was facing criticism for a fatal derailing. Ayn Rand escaped Russia during the Bolshevic Revolution. She witnessed first-hand what happens when people use the government as a cudgel in the name of public good. If anything, Atlas Shrugged was warning us of the dangers of cronyism in both government and business, as well as the dangers of a government given unlimited power I the name of the "greater good." And, yes, you have the right to protest at work, and your employer has the right to prohibit such action on its premises and discipline you. And Kapernick's protest was NOT unobtrusive. In fact, it was deliberately planned as an attention-grabbing scheme, likely to destract people from his lousy skills as a football player. As I said, if you want to protest a nation, boycott its anthem entirely.
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Not a leftist, classical liberal. I'm left compared to the radicalist, extremist lunacy of the american right, I guess, but that's it.
Realizing that empathy is a core human character trait and instrumental to any functional society is not "obsession". If we acted as Rand would have us act, purely selfishly and without compassion for others- y'know, like psychopaths- then society would quickly collapse.
Sure, all those things worked out in her book because that's how she wrote it, but that doesn't mean any of it makes sense or would ever translate well into reality.
Ayn Rand, for the record, was not a self-made woman. She stayed with relatives. She got money from her family to support her career. Like most people, she depended on others to make her way through life... only to dedicate her life to a cult of selfishness that derided the very same things she did as evil. And did I mention the queen hypocrite was on welfare, too? Funny how this influence of the US finacial elite never ever ran a business of her own, never had any real life experience backing up her ideology. Her beliefs were as extremist and delusional as the communism she escaped.
Unless you can magically access Kapernick's thoughts, you can't know that.
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You are most certainly NOT a classical liberal. Classical liberals value individualism, NOT collectivism, as you advocate. Rand did not advocate selfishness, but again, individualism. For example, Rearden did not create his alloy for the betterment of mankind, but rather to make money. However, he DID see the potential for his metal to improve the human condition. He envisioned ships, planes, trains, automobiles made from Rearden Metal (which I wil call Reardenium for simplicity), which was lighter, stronger, and than even titanium. Jon Galt sought to usurp the gasoline engine as the chief automotive powerplant. Both he and Rearden saw their dreams quashed by the selfish, cronyistic machinations of their rivals, who were not concerned one bit about anyone but themselves. Again, you completely missed the point of the novel. Also, empathy is fine, but we ARE becoming obsessed with it. We, as both individuals and as a nation, have no legal, moral, or ethical obligation to prop up others, nor should we. What happens to other nations is not our problem. What happens to my neighbors is not my problem. No-one should be FORCED to care about others, but rather, they should CHOOSE to care. Businesses do not exist to employ people or improve people's lives, they exist to make money. This is neither selfish nor evil, as the richest in America are among the most generous, both with their time AND money. Andrew Carnegie, one of the three rishest men who ever lived, donated BILLIONS to public libraries. The Rockefellers, to this day, likewise donate their money, in the form of college scholarships. What difference can ANYONE make if everyone is struggling?
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I do value individualism and I have not advocated for collectivism, so I'm not sure what you're on about.
No, Rand explicitly advocated for selfishness. Her ideology was completely centred on self-interest, it's right there in the text.
I'm going to say it again: the lack of empathy for others, the complete lack of consideration for others except with regards to how they can benefit you, the complete egocentrism and the notion that nobody matters as much as you do are 1) traits of every randian hero and 2) also classic traits of psychopathy. What Rand advocates for is a society that would eat itself if it actually would come to exist.
I know libertarians etc are for voluntary charity, but rand? Not so much. She viewed charity as a moral weakness. Caring for those who could not care for themselves was, in her eyes, a character flaw.
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Lolz
No, she did not. She advocated for individualism, meaning individuals accumulate wealth for their own ends, with societal benefit being a side-effect, as society SHOULD function. I do not care what my neighbor does or what the consequence of those actions is. I am not my brother's keeper, after all. I have no moral or ethical responsibility to anyone but my wife and child. Rand did not see empathy as a weakness, she saw it as a hindrance to progress when used as a society's raison d'être, which is what the America in her book became, with businesses using empathy as a corrupt tool to destroy competition. You need to reread the book and think critically about its message.
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No, rational self-interest is the core of her philosophy, and that's a fact.
Ayn Rand fundamentally did not understand basic human nature. We rely on each other to survive; that's how we evolved as a species and that's how every society has functioned in every part of human history. Individualism, while a good idea, is an extremely recent addition to our species' set of ideas and it still needs to coexist with the fact that we are dependent on each other to a greater or lesser degree.
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I have, so please do not waste my time. Corporations, like the state, have and are very capable of violating other people's rights and abusing the common man in general. Have you even read John Sinclair's "The Jungle?" Yes, he still remains very influential, but the slippery slope is easier to fall down than you think it is. H3H3 is being deterred from live streaming on YouTube for talking about Alex Jones. And Twitter at this moment is censoring almost anyone to the right of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Plus Milo got banned for Twitter for criticizing a movie for fuck's sake. Are you a troll? There's no way you can be this stupid.
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Corporations, like the state, have and are very capable of violating other people's rights and abusing the common man in general
GOOGLE, Facebook, Twitter. . .its like they're the new 'Evil Corporation That Dumps Toxic Waste In The Drinking Water!' Its also interesting that when the Left mentions 'Evil Corporation' they never mention them by name. Or when the corporation is mentioned, it just happens to be one with a Left Leaning Corporate Culture then they defend the corporation in general.
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