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Because if you're fighting us in a culture
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not gonna be fighting the elite.

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You're gonna be too distracted to fight them
since you're

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fighting us.

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They want you to think that immigrants are the
reason

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why you're not making more money at your job.

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So you don't notice that the CEO of your
company,

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who just gave himself a raise, by the way,
hasn't

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given you a raise in years, even though you're
probably

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doing more work now than you were doing when
you

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first started since they laid off people and
never replaced

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them because the company wanted to make a few
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bucks.

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And it's only a matter of time before they
replace

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you with a robot, not an immigrant.

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Don't be afraid of an immigrant taking your
job in

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2024 when they are creating the AI right now
to

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replace all of us.

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They want you to think that black and brown
people

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and DEI have made you less safe when you fly

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in an airplane.

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So you don't realize that the safety issues
stem from

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the CEOs of these companies like Boeing
cutting corners to

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save a few bucks.

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A black pilot didn't make the doors of one of

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their planes blow off.

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A female train conductor didn't cause the
train to derail

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in East Palestine.

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Greedy CEOs who bribe politicians to
deregulate their companies are

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responsible for these things.

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They want you to think that climate change is
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hoax and that the people who are concerned
about it

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are alarmist communists that want you to live
in hobbit

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homes and and eat bugs or some shit.

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So that way, you know, you're mad at them for

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that, as opposed to the CEOs of fossil fuel
companies

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who are destroying the only habitable planet
that we all

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have.

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They want you to spot the woke mind virus
everywhere

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you look in video games and movies and TV
shows.

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Because if they're priming you to see LGBTQ
plus people

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and people of color as the enemy, you're not
gonna

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realize that elites are your true enemy.

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They've brainwashed you into thinking that
people who are different

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from you, they're the real threat.

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They're the real enemy.

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And they've bought off all of our politicians.

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They've rigged our entire system against us
and they're richer

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than ever while Americans are poorer than
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Most Americans can't afford a $500 emergency.

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Whereas multi-millionaires and billionaires
are buying their fourth mansion and

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second yacht, and they're sharing photos of
these lavish lifestyles

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on Instagram while your grandmother struggles
to pay her mortgage

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on social security.

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They have no fucking shame.

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They have it all and they want more.

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ame And it's a zero sum g.

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You have to pay for these lifestyles

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They're paying less taxes and you have to pay
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because they have the power.

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So fuck you.

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They got theirs and they want more.

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They want you to have nothing.

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And billionaires like Elon Musk, who bought
himself a position

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in Trump's administration wants to take away
your social security,

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even though you've paid into that your entire
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That's the immigrant you should want to
deport, not some

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innocent abolita who came here looking for a
better life

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for her family.

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Elites lie to you about Medicare for All
because these

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health insurance companies profit off of your
pain and suffering.

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They pay politicians to lie to you about a
single

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period healthcare system and they say, oh,
that's socialism.

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You should be afraid of it because our current
for-profit

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system has made them rich.

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So they want you to believe that something
better that

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all the other countries have adopted is
actually worse for

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you.

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And if we had healthcare that was free at the

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point of service, the gravy train would be
over for

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these CEOs.

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So politicians let us suffer and die so these
companies

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can leech off of us some more.

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They're distracting you by pitting you against
queer people and

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black and brown people because if you're
fighting them, you're

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gonna be too busy to fight the people at the

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top who is actually fucking you over in a
plethora

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of ways.

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But you have to understand that fellow working
class people

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are not your enemies, regardless if they're
gay or trans,

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black or brown, Muslim or atheist or an
immigrant, they

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are not your enemies.

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They are not responsible for your economic
anxiety.

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And even though you probably felt like the
system was

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unfair, but you didn't know how to articulate
how it

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was unfair, probably noticed that the rich
were doing pretty

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great.

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They were getting richer while you kept
getting poor year

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after year after year.

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And people like Ben Shapiro tricked you into
thinking all

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of those problems stemmed from immigrants or
trans people.

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They tricked you into hating innocent people
that are also

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getting fucked over by the same system that's
fucking over

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you.

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CEOs are the ones that you should be hating.

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Billionaires, elites, oligarchs, they are the
ones that are the

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cause of your pain and suffering.

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They are all of our common enemy.

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But people like Ben Shapiro turned us into
each other's

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common enemy.

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He is paid to distract you while the rich robs

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you blind.

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It would love nothing more than to stop
fighting you

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in a culture war and instead join forces with
you

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to fight in the class war.

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But here's the thing that means the people
that are

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going to fight alongside you have to be on
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footing.

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A trans woman would love nothing more than to
fight

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a class war with you, but she can't do that

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if she also has to focus on her humanity when

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it's under attack or if she fears for her life

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every time she leaves her home.

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An immigrant can't fight a class war with you
if

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you continue to see them as the enemy and call

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for their deportation.

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And if they have to be worried about
deportation or

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for like they're not welcome in this movement,
a gay

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man can't just fight the culture war with you
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he thinks that his marriage rights are under
attack because

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he's got to take time to protect those gains
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he's made too.

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So if you're serious about fighting a class
war, you

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have to stop fighting the culture war first.

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And you have to stop viewing other people as
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enemy entirely.

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Period.

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Full stop.

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It's already hard enough to fight a class war
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your boss has you working longer hours for
lower wages

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and you're already tired when you come home
and you

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feel like shit.

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But if you also have to fight for your basic

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civil rights too, it diverts attention away
from the class

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struggle that we all desperately want to be
able to

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fight with you.

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So if you're serious about changing this
country for the

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better once and for all, and taking back the
wealth

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CEOs stole from us, that necessitates you
seeing the humanity

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in people that Ben Shapiro and his ilk have
demonized.

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It requires you to accept that you not only
have

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to welcome trans people into your movement
wholeheartedly, but you

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have to fight alongside them for their rights
as well,

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for their emancipation as well.

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Because they're not gonna fight for you if
you're not

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gonna fight for them

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You can't have true class solidarity if you
think that

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the people who are fighting alongside you
should have less

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rights than you.

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And you can't expect them to join you in a

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political movement unless you unequivocally
repudiate the divisive politics that

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separated you both in the first place.

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That is the first step.

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And I hate the term culture war because it
minimizes

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something that affects people's lives in a
profound way.

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We're talking about civil rights and basic
human dignity, and

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you have to internalize the fact that none of
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are free until all of us are free.

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Race, sex, class, it is all intertwined, and
you have

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to see that.

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You can't expect marginalized people to
postpone their own liberation

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and emancipation or put aside the fight for
now for

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civil rights in order to fight this class war
with

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you, because we have to do both things
simultaneously.

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We can walk and shoe gum at the same time.

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So if you're serious about changing this
country for the

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better, and you should be, and you really want
to

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take on the rich bastards that are keeping you
down

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and making you poor and keeping you that way,
you

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have to stop fighting marginalized people and
start fighting for

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marginalized people.

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And then they will fight alongside you.

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That is how you cultivate class solidarity.

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It is going to take a lot of time for

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you to deprogram yourself because trying to
resist years of

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right wing brainwashing will force you to
reckon with a

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lot of beliefs that are gonna make you feel
uncomfortable.

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You're gonna experience cognitive dissonance
and even anxiety.

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But that internal struggle is so worthwhile
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the true path to liberation for us all.