D.A. Bullock
@BullyCreative
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Filmmaker. Creative. Woodpusher. Purveyor of fine media. Story activist. "Word-work is sublime"
Joined April 2012
a word from Bichota Coffee in George Floyd Square, regarding your shady ass mayor @MayorFrey actually several words
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You. Do. Not. Get. Applause. For. Firing. A. Public. Employee. Who. Murdered. Someone. On. Video!.
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Minnesota cops said they cannot accept a potential ban on white supremacist affiliation in POST certified officer ranks, cuz it will hurt recruitment. Please let that sink into your every consideration of each and every city/police budget conversation.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates quote “there is a whole entire architecture that happens outside of that voting booth, that defines what goes on inside of it, what issues are appropriate, frankly, who is human, and who is not.” Resonating with me all day.
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This is no offense to young adults, but a 20 year old is still a child in my eyes. I think about the death of a child.
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Please all those Black folks who voted, grab 3 friends and vote in November for Jaime Harrison to defeat Lindsey Graham.
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Chief Arradondo & Mayor Frey knew who he was before May 25, 2020.
DOJ Considers Charging Derek Chauvin in 2017 Incident Where he Allegedly Beat Black 14-Year-Old and Knelt on Him for 17 Minutes
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Good god. Even I who knew it was staggeringly bad, did not know the extent. Travel with me into the abyss that is the Minneapolis Police Department. The abyss that you somehow think is reformable, cuz your body is not on the line.
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Unicorn Riot should have received a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the uprising from May 25, 2020.
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For those of you who do not know, Angola is a slave plantation, no literally. 1834 the property had been acquired by Francis Routh for the production of cotton. In the late 1830s the property passed to Isaac Franklin, a wealthy planter and slave trader from Tennessee.
BREAKING: Kids incarcerated at Louisiana's Angola prison say they were locked in windowless cells with no air-conditioning for nearly 24 hours a day this month, as heat indexes in the area topped 133 degrees. @elizabethweill has the story.
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White folks can literally try to bring down America and still be treated with more humanity by this system than Black people. It is not a shameful legacy of the past, it is present in 2021. Keep close watch on the case of Eric Munchel as it compares to the case of Guled Omar.
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Why are SO many white people SO invested in this fantasy that George Floyd died of an overdose and not what we saw with our own eyes, a Minneapolis Police officer killing him while neighbors pleaded for the officer to stop?.
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Officer Chauvin was the subject of a dozen police conduct complaints - he was never disciplined. He was involved in two shootings of civilians - never disciplined, fired, evaluated; only protected. THIS is where you lay blame for every burning building in this city tonight.
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@equalityAlec Minneapolis Police Sgt Stephen McBride was paid nearly $376,000 last year, more than 3 times his regular salary of $110,240. And no one can explain what he did or how he could have actually put in all those hours. Not 1 explanation, and local residents want to give MPD even more.
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The whole system is literally guilty as hell.
BREAKING: The judge in the Chauvin trial, Peter Cahill, signed the no-knock warrant in the raid that led to Amir Locke’s death, a source with knowledge of the investigation tells KARE 11’s @AJInvestigates.
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Let me give you some backstory to put these type of articles in context. I was interviewed by this journalist for this article, we spoke for about 30 mins, nothing of what I said made it into the article because I refused to accept his framing questions…
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Press reporting on a Dollar Tree getting looted. A Dollar Tree. That shit is the dictionary definition of replaceable.
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Just for perspective, the Minneapolis Police overtime budget for 2022 was 15% of the cost to feed every hungry school child in the whole god damned state. Just their overtime budget! just the city of Minneapolis. - Feeding children is not expensive.
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For those of you comfortable in the electoral process, who lament that young people are silly and don’t recognize a good economy when they see one etc - you really don’t understand the courage and thoughtfulness it takes to do what this young person is doing in this video.
Mood outside DNC 2 hrs ago after police attacked protesters. When you just can’t pick which caption . #FreePalestine #AlShifaHospital .Stop #GazaGenocide @factsandfire
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If you want to know how Minneapolitans would have treated George Floyd's death if there was no cell phone video footage taken by a teenager, just notice how they are treating Winston Smith's death.
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Amir never pointed a gun at police. They are going to blatantly lie to you and tell you to believe it.
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Gives you the stomach gurgles that Minneapolis is simultaneously discussing a raise and bonus for MPD coming off probably their worst performance years in modern history, and Minneapolis teachers have to strike to get fair pay, health support and school improvements.
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A few young people kept telling MPD Officer Hanson to put on a mask, she kept ignoring them, standing close to their face. I asked her by name why she kept ignoring them. She refused to answer and stayed obstinate. This might seem like a small thing, but it is actual emblematic.
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Police surrounding the Brooklyn Center Police Department are currently indiscriminately shooting into a crowd of people, including press, who are not threatening them.
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The City of Minneapolis finally accomplished what it set out to do on May 25, 2020, finally put George Floyd in confinement behind bars and rebar and concrete.
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When candidates say they follow and defer to the chief of police when it comes to changing police or holding police accountable, that shit just chills me to my bones. We have an elected civilian government over the police or the military for a reason.
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This is literal white supremacy. Literal and violent and efficient in its goal - the violent subjugation of Black people. What more do you need to know? What is it going to take?
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Can the press not report the officer's intent to use the taser, since none of you know the officer's intent? You only know what the police chief fed you.
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just straight up fuckin bananas.
Duffy: "This whole movement is potentially gonna make people go, 'I'm gonna come to work earlier. I'm gonna stay later. I'm gonna look at what Donald Trump wants me to accomplish because he won the election, and I'm gonna fight and work to make sure I help him accomplish that .
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This should be the line of Black folks getting out of Minnesota jails, in there on drug charges.
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The racial context of living in Minnesota in one tweet
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When people are appalled about death squads in exotic foreign lands, you do understand, what happened to Amir Locke, that is exactly how death squads work.
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Weird ass adults acting like they are really pressed if ALL the kids in Minnesota got free breakfast and lunch at school. I can't imagine being petty enough to be concerned if a rich child got a free lunch at school.
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@CBSMornings "the backpack of an extremist" what in the everliving fuck are yall on? history will not be kind to this absurdity. My goodness. Throw out even the pretense of an objective morality. yuck, this is just fuck shit.
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Instead of starting from the framing that policing is some noble institution that must be tweaked of its marginal problem, perhaps people can look at the facts of what it actually is and what it actually does.
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If you are a reasoned thinking person, if you are not a child with childish wishful thinking, if you are an adult you do not think this type of police lying only happens in these high profile incidents - police lie as a normal accepted practice.
Mother of Tyre Nichols says police told her he was stopped for DUI and had to be peppered sprayed. BUT they told the department it was reckless driving. “I think they (police) were trying to cover it up” Nichols mom told @donlemon . Police “beat him to a pulp” she said.
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44,000 Minneapolis neighbors voted to remove the Minneapolis Police from the city charter, something a scant few of them had even considered or would have voted for just a year prior. An incredible testament to the voice of the community.
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A Beautiful day of beautiful people at George Floyd Square.
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As you watch Fox News and Alpha News MPD officers whine about being filmed on the street - just sit with the FACT, MPD started and prepared to cover up the murder of George Floyd as a "medical incident" were it not for Darnella Fraizer doing this exact thing.
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Type of force used by MPD – 68% of Gunpoint display share used on Black people. Black folks are 19% of the city population.
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The facts, when a white woman from SW Mpls was killed by police, the chief was fired and the mayor was canned for an unproven politician, when the most famous police killing of a Black man in modern history, folks have rallied all the weight of power to keep things status quo.
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The Minneapolis Police Department continues a pattern of violent escalation against protestors. The mayor of Minneapolis and the chief of police continue to allow this to happen. MPD officers know they are allowed to act this way.
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That 44,000 votes was more than Jacob Frey 1st ballot top ranked votes. I dont know if it was the journalist or the editor in charge who decided on the frame of failure before the story was written, it is just sad that kind of slop would come from the NY Times.
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How do I shake you out of your comfort? How do I compel you to do the very least you could do? Like go sign a petition or ask a simple question of your elected? What moves you if not staring in the face of abject wrong?.
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His questions went like "why did it fail?" "what did you all do wrong?" "what would you change if you had to do it over" - I presented a more accurate story of community rising to meet the moment, organizing and doing something extraordinary. .
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Oh shit, so if you protect yourself from the noxious gas they are shooting at you, even if you live in the apartments across the street, possession is a felony?.
Per police scanner in Brooklyn Center protestors arrested with a gas mask in their possession will be charged with a felony.
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66% of the chemical irritants MPD use of force used on Black people. Black folks are 19% of the city population.
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our local media seems sincerely shocked and perplexed when the police treat them unfairly, like they treat us.
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Teamsters have a 60% white demographic. The union endorsed Biden and not Harris with a continuation of the same Biden policies. This is curious. Folks wonder why we don't have worker and class solidarity in this country. To me it is fairly obvious.
BREAKING: The Teamsters union declined to endorse Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, saying neither candidate had sufficient support from the 1.3 million-member union.
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@atrupar Interestingly enough, your comment is what abusers do to their spouses, putting that fear in them how much worse off they could be with somebody else or without somebody to take care of them.
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66% of the neck restraints MPD use of force used on Black people. Black folks are 19% of the city population.
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61% of the dogs MPD use of force used on Black people. Black folks are 19% of the city population.
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This photo says a whole lot about white folks in America. I couldn't imagine anyone in my family, even those who hold totally different political understanding than I, championing a markedly reprehensible man against me, just for politics sake.
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Shouldn't every politician who supported funneling more money to police have to face some journalism scrutiny tonight? What the hell does reckoning even mean if yall just let these people carry on with their irresponsible politics and policy?.
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What a terrible fucking awful exhausting painful week. That is all.
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60% of the tasers MPD use of force used on Black people. Black folks are 19% of the city population.
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"Minneapolis is facing a budget hole of $21.6 million next year — and that's just to keep things as they are, officials revealed Monday." - Is this a proper time to review the waste, fraud and abuse of the Minneapolis Police Dept and the cost to the city? Or is that still gauche?.
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59% of the takedowns and joint locks MPD use of force used on Black people. Black folks are 19% of the city population.
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60% of the body-weight pin MPD use of force used on Black people. Black folks are 19% of the city population.
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I’m going to explain to you why Operation Safety Net, Governor Tim Walz, Sheriff Hutchinson, Mayor Jacob Frey, and last but certainly not least Chief Arradondo are so disingenuous from their very start.
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This officer couldn't be bothered or was too prideful to do the smallest thing in public safety, wear a goddamn mask especially when people are imploring you, how are people supposed to trust you if you can not do the absolute minimum?.
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I'm sure some of you have children at universities and colleges all around the country, I do. I'm sure for some of you a thing doesn't really hit home until that hit is literal. When u see armed and dangerous people put their hands on ur child - Does this look reformable to you?.
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Understand in order to “reopen” 38th & Chicago (George Floyd Square is already open and thriving to the public by the way) to Jacob Frey’s liking, he is willing to unleash the same police violence that had him weeping on George Floyd’s casket. He finds no irony in that fact.
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I’m very clear what I’m fighting for - what do you stand for? What do you make a stand against?.
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A Minneapolis Police officer will have his knee on someone's neck TONIGHT, I guarantee.
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I frankly don't believe anyone who says "I supported your cause until someone from your cause offended me" - it's laughable really.
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It is not extraordinary bad fortune and coincidence that Darnella Fraizer and her family was touched by police violence and reckless disregard once again, this is how they operate in neighborhoods that contain Black people.
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How does it make sense that police can kill a man in the streets, then never have to present the evidence of why they engaged him in the first place - This happened with Dolal and now with Winston. Execution in the streets is far less cumbersome than a full due process.
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I wish Daunte Wright's family peace and closure and eventual hope and happiness, they deserve as much. Convictions do not deliver any of these things. The best we can do, everything in our power to remove the condition of armed deadly force from our every day.
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He said "please" eleven times that I could count. He stops moving at 4:03. Bystanders including a first responder plead with the officers to "check his pulse" seventeen times. They do not. The still unidentified officer keeps his knee on this humans neck for almost another 4 mins.
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Derek Chauvin worked for the Minneapolis Police Department for more than 18 years. That is not an outlier, that is the rank and file, run of the mill. Chauvin is the norm, you can see it on his face and the face of the rest of the officers involved. This is their norm.
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Minneapolis, It would seem that only certain kinds of looting offends you.
Minnetonka-based health care giant UnitedHealth Group projects more than $300 billion in revenue next year.
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Tear down that former 3rd precinct monstrosity and build the biggest most state of the art library in the state, employ people from the neighborhood as staff. Everybody invited, everybody welcome, nobody terrorized and violated. Isn't a phoenix supposed to rise from ash?.
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This is actually how u are supposed to address the chief of police, because they hold the responsibility of deadly force in their hands, you are elected to challenge them when they gaslight and stonewall. It is the literal definition of truth to power. Good on you @jeremiah4north
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The Office of Violence Prevention - MinneapolUS has rolled out its violence interrupters. Yes. yes. yes. Let's get them every penny of the Minneapolis Police Department budget that they deserve.
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Here is maskless defiant obstinate Officer Hanson spitting sunflower seeds in our direction.
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You all are just now getting a glimpse of these absurd judges - now imagine if you have to run the gauntlet from police, to prosecutor, to judge, to jury all with the same frame of mind and belief in whiteness as de facto innocence and righteousness.
At the Kyle Rittenhouse trial this morning, the judge asked, given that it's Veterans Day, if there were any veterans in the room. The only one appeared to be Rittenhouse's next witness, a use of force expert. So the judge asked everyone in the court to applaud for veterans.
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This idea that we cannot figure out a way to truly support people with disabilities unless we allow two specific corporations to circumvent the minimum wage rules of our city is some real corporate galaxy brain shit.
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I said this before and I will say it again, @hclib has some of the best staff, they handle just as much of our social issues as police, and do so with care and humanity, without the brutal. We should invest in librarians to the extent we throw money into the police maw.
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Most expensive production in Minneapolis theater history closes today May 12, 2021.
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Hearing how much disdain MPD officers have for Minneapolis residents in a supposed well crafted press roll out is really something to behold.
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So the last word we have heard about Winston Smith is that he was unarmed and trying to use his phone when he was gunned down by an unidentified squad of LEO. It is strange to have a city of folks content with that, after everything we experienced with the murder of George Floyd.
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We should all be very exhausted by this. And this is all the doing of the police.
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Its hard for a lot of people to admit, if it wasn't for the video, they would have assumed George Floyd was another dangerous criminal who deserved to be executed in the street just like they believe about Thurman Blevins, Chaiser Vue, Dolal Idd and Winston Smith.
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😂 my cousin in Chicago just text me "Do we like Walz?" - lol how do I answer this question? "bruh its all relative and entirely complicated. so yeah-ish. Def yeah over anything Republican, their shit is just ghoulish".
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The only way this sits right with you is of you believe in your heart that Black people are the majority of criminal behavior and deserve to be punished in these streets accordingly - but then what does that say about you?.
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They ginned up all this nonsense about Critical Race Theory and 1619 cuz they know their white children are fed up with racial capitalism. THAT scares them to death, Republicans and Democrats alike. The horse is out of the barn tho.
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When you imagined our city would do all this soul searching and change after the murder of George Floyd then you realized MPD has not changed one centimeter since then - what do you as an individual do then?.
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I’m a Black man living in North Minneapolis raising a family of little people including a 6yr old son, you can not take this shit more personal or serious than I do. That’s why I’m in pain and rage about ALL of it, all the death and suffering and trauma laid on us.
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Would you have imagined that after the murder of George Floyd and a historic uprising, a large segment of this city would be voting to keep it all the same? Same leadership? Same system of police accountability?.
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Hanson was spitting sunflower seeds all the while. Just weird incidental, strange anti social interaction. Eventually I heard her say something about masks give her anxiety. Again may seem small, but as I think about it, just continues to bother me.
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TaNehisi Coates with the most clear, to the point description of what I can only hope will be the accounting for my entire life's work. - The essence of why narrative is everything, and especially for Black folks, culture is politics in every way shape and form.
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@ava From the responses, one would think you insulted somebody's moms, and not just a benign comment about your own personal deliberation about politicians.
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