Ela Bambust, 🏳️⚧️ professional author
@Elamimaxima
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Trans Author of queer-affirming fiction and now ttrpg’s 🏳️⚧️ Incomprehensible but the vibes are there. I like women a normal amount.
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Time for some self-promo.
Hi! I'm Ela! I'm an author of fiction in a wide variety of genres, committing word crimes and inflicting mental damage on my characters. Here's a 🧵 of my work, published and otherwise, so it would mean a lot if you could give it a look and a share
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The Death Penalty is bad because governments will use it to kill people they don't like, hope that helps.
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I had to
There are booty short slogans everywhere for those with eyes to see
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"Contestants. For ten points, how much Estrogen would you let us inject into you. Starting with you... Brennan."
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Fuck yeah front row seats to Dune
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If only there was a piece of media about how this is a bad idea. Alas.
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To understand that picture you need:
- one TikTok
- one comic (amigara fault by junji ito)
- the explanation "this panel became a meme"
Why are y'all pretending we're speaking some kind of arcane language here this is baby stuff
I wonder how much of internet you need to know to understand this picture.
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what an interesting way to portray trans women I wonder if this comic has an agenda of some sort
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The desire for realism in both gameplay and visuals is holding back the entire industry and is making games worse in almost every conceivable way.
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I've seen a few people go "what do you mean, Helldivers 2 mocks fascism??? You're reading too much into it!" so let me take you by the hand and shove your nose into it since you're being so deliberately obtuse about it.
1/25 (yes, really)
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My thoughts are simple:
- I'm happy for him
- Being out is how you're happier
- Being on HRT rules
- I'm always gonna be annoyed he's prettier, you can't take that away from me
- But fr good for him and his exploration of gender and sexuality going forward.
Just one more thing:
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I'M ESCAPING TO THE ONE SOCIAL MEDIA THAT HASN'T BEEN CORRUPTED BY CAPITALISM
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No shade to op, grip seems nice, but an NB-inclusive service called Women+ really does say it all
Idk when Lyft started doing this but i’m INTO IT and now they need to do it for Instacart
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"Men want praise for doing the most basic of household tasks"
Hot take but everyone does, but society has taught us that housekeeping is a woman's job and should be thankless.
Ideally you both go "babe look I did the kitchen" with "holy shit that's awesome thanks" as a response
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Can we talk about how fucking criminal it is that some of the best animated trailers in video game history were for the fucking elder scrolls online?
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The problem with making art that mocks fascism is that fascists are really fucking stupid and they think the art is about them but in a good way. They GENUINELY can't tell when something is satire until the devs kick them out of the clubhouse.
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Truly impressed with the time it took for major news media to treat F1nn5ter like a trans woman
The Times just doxxed my full name in an article to slander trans healthcare donations lmfao
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there's a certain irony to AI art representing the trans community as carbon copy white fems
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Cloud in just trunks feels like I should be averting my eyes. Girl put your top back on
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Kojima's gonna see this and next Schafer is gonna spend every second of his next game twirling that thing.
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So you spend most of your time sad and thinking about lesbians
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Fun thing about Panam in Cyberpunk 2077: Her lines for girl V and boy V are the same lines. She uses the same ones....
Right up until you reciprocate her flirting. If you're playing as a guy, she's down, but if you're playing as fem V, she acts like you're being weird and gross
Panam is so gay for girl V it’s a damn crime she only dates men apparently. Damn you CDPR
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"the Nazis didn't target trans people just degenerate transvestites" bro do you HEAR yourself
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The fact that there are people who think Helldivers 2 was made in a matter of months is incredible to me
@Elamimaxima
Well, we see whatever we want I guess. Probably the devs had to make a game in 2 months and just watched a lot of Starship troopers. Don't overthink, it's just a game
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If there's a lack of Goth women in your life I have a cunning solution but there is a caveat:
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Trans woman goes to doctor, says "doctor, am still depressed, even after transitioning. Feel unwanted, unattractive."
Doctor says "should go see Sam. Not real name. Very sensitive man who knows a lot about trans women. Many queer friends. He will help."
Woman replies: "but doctor
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Someone smarter than me explain why this is as horny as it is
An automatically adjusting oxygen mask for pilots- just release the button. Alien baby not included.
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it's so fucking funny that CDPR is advertising Cyberpunk 2.0 with "the game is fixed" as a literal tagline but there's still a dialogue option that permanently fucks up your visuals for the rest of the game and the only option is to reload an earlier save.
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Hot take: if you have a moral dilemma in your game, the evil option should be mechanically superior by a WIDE margin. Like, unique, cool, well designed gear. If I can do the nice thing and then one side quest and end up just as rich, you've messed up.
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"Old" shows:
House MD: 177 Episodes
Scrubs: 182
Grey's Anatomy: 420
Seinfeld: 180
Friends: 236
Gilmore Girls: 153
NCIS: 458
Suits: 134
Supernatural: 327
vs:
Sense8: 24
Altered Carbon: 18
The OA: 16
Shadow & Bone: 16
Warrior Nun: 18
1899: 8
Winx: 13
The Mandalorian: 24
🤔🤔🤔
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Every once in a while you come across something in your phone that just takes you out at the knees
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*Clownhonk.wav*
YOU'RE NOW LISTENING TO
*husky girl groan*
62.1
*High pitched boy moan*
TRANS FM
*Gunshot*
WHERE WE PLAY NOTHING BUT NOISE NOISE AND MORE NOISE
*Estrogen injection sound*
*Police siren*
THIS AIN'T YOUR POLYCULE'S STATION
*Celeste - First Steps starts playing*
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I played Never Have I Ever yesterday and this one guy proudly led with "never have I ever given a partner an orgasm" and when I tell you there's simply no amount of alcohol that could get me to confess that
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If you needed a sign to live as your authentic self, to try out something different, to figure yourself out, to ask a doctor if hrt is right for you, to let yourself wonder if you'd be happier in a dress or using a different name or whatever:
Let this be it.
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Every trans girl has two genders:
- Woman
- Her actual gender that is complex and informed by a lifetime of alienation and abuse and attempts at making masculinity work for her but that she can't publicly express because people will use it to invalidate her womanhood.
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"My son turned out fine"
Ma'am, your daughter is clicker trained
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Did you know that Sigourney Weaver is 6ft tall? Just an interesting little fact for you.
Pics unrelated.
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"haha trans women are always posting pictures despite how ugly they are"
Okay
Real talk.
Yeah.
Some people are ugly.
That's fine, actually. How pretty you are doesn't actually impact how likely you are to find a partner who thinks the sun shines out of your ass.
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My brain is making chainsaw noises
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There's something incredible about the fact that this harrowing, complex feeling of alienation, depersonalization, dissociation, is not only common among trans people, but even things like "I'm tricking people" and "looking into the reflection's eyes to try and figure it out"
Whoever guessed that the feeling I was describing when I initially posted this comic was 'Gender Dysphoria', you are good diagnosticians.
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Asking yourself the question of who you are is one many people don't allow themselves.
The answer is, and I'm not exaggerating, everything.
So ask.
Who are you?
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Sorry I didn't respond to your email, I thought about how in the world of Chainsaw Man since devils are based on what people fear there's a trans woman devil and I got so horny I passed out
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"the transatlantic railway" is one of those utopian concepts because it's hard to imagine a feat of engineering like that being achieved but then you look up how much it would cost and it's just the yearly us military budget and you get a little sad instead
“Woah there, took a nasty tumble. Are you okay?
Huh? Biden? Sunak? Gaza? What are you talking about? Come on, you’re gonna miss the opening of the London-New York Trans-Atlantic People’s Railway.”
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When I was younger I asked an older trans woman if it meant anything that I wanted to be a girl. She responded by asking me "if I gave you a pair of scissors, would you cut off your genitalia?"
I said no.
"Then you're not trans."
Being told I COULD BE would've saved me 20 years.
absolutely wild to me that being this hostile to someone simply saying to consider transition is considered to be somehow defending trans ppl.
like holy shit I wish I'd had a single fucking person who'd suggested that or even just supported it when I got there on my own
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Excellent work, 47.
*Click*
Good girl.
*Click click.*
Now head to an exit.
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Thread of Elden Ring demigods if they were regular-ass people but it's going to piss some people off:
🧵
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Thread of James Bonds and how they would react to you coming out to them as a trans woman (and how you die later in the movie) 🧵
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"We'll institute legislation to make sure they only kill criminals" buddy you're not gonna believe this but the government decides who counts as a criminal
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Libsoftiktok and similar conservatives will forever hide behind the “well we didn’t SAY you should kill queer people tee hee :3c” and claim language isn’t harmful, and this is a direct extension of how they view oppression.
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like, unironically, she puts her legs on your lap and if you respond to that with, "oh you like me? hmmm?" as a guy she's like "yeah :3" but Fem V has her looking like
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You are not immune to a hot woman saying "down" in an authoritative voice
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this isn't fair
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I swear to god this guy must have some Epstein level dirt on some people the way he keeps getting work
BREAKING: FIRST LOOK AT JARED LETO AS ARES ON-SET
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*squeezing my legs together so hard you could make diamonds*: gun safety includes proper maintenance! Haha¡!
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3. The cult of Action for Action's Sake: Action has value in and of itself and shouldn't be reflected on. This is also connected to anti-intellectualism.
In the recent celebration for peace, Helldivers were given a 1 minute break. Not active personnel though.
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Discourse was had
I don't make the rules:
Detectives ranked by their ability to bag Light in the Kira Case
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Y'all wanna hear some trans joy?
I went to a new laser technician today and while she was working my face she asked me if I'd always had this much trouble with facial hair. I mentioned I was seeing an Endocrinologist and she nodded sagely.
She thought I was cis :3
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Stop telling me to imagine an island with 100 trans women on it I keep passing out
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1. The Cult of Tradition. A sort of cannibalization of culture and religion into a "tradition" that can then no longer change. All truth is revealed, no new learning can occur.
Helldivers 2 focuses a lot of its narrative on the idea that "Super Earth" can't and shouldn't change
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The reason egg_irl is Like That btw is because transfems were too excited to share memes about their experiences on Reddit and trans men complained that that was oppressing them
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@smthorother7777
80-85% of _VISIBLE_ enbies, maybe. Don't forget that transfeminine people are not permitted an ounce of masculinity lest they be perceived as men for their transgressions
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Going into that point a little bit more: a LOT of helldivers is about _literally_ diving in without thinking. Questioning anything is disagreement. Which leads me to point four:
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My version of the bechdel test is that when a webcomic
- has a male writer
- has two female characters talking
- those characters have a deep internal world and hopes and dreams that feel grounded and realistic
He's an egg
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For those claiming "it's just a game, why are you taking it so seriously, just play the game," you need to understand that this, this meta-text, IS a part of the game as much as the menus, the dialogue and the graphics are. This was put deliberately into the game by the devs.
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2. The Rejection of Modernism: rationalistic development of culture is descent into depravity (which isn't the same as development of technology).
In Helldivers 2, despite taking place far into the future, people still live in traditional, american suburbs.
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Woman goes to doctor. Says she's depressed. Says she feels all alone in cruel and uncaring world. Doctor says: treatment is simple. Trans woman made a tweet tonight. Go and dogpile her. There won't be any consequences. Woman bursts into tears: But doctor...
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So, let's take Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism" to explain fascism, and go over it point by point.
For those who aren't aware, Eco grew up in Mussolini's Italy and has done a lot of research into fascist movements. His work is considered seminal in understanding it.
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4. Disagreement is Treason: fascism sees critical thinking as a barrier to action, and of course it is an existential threat to the movement, since critical thinking often dismantles fascist thought.
In Helldivers, you are tasked with destroying human structures that belong to-
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Sci Fi is when there's giant robot that completely envvelops you and o ov overstimulates your sengsess and fnaststyu s when wrwolf llady giabnt moinsterr hrgghgvhgc
What exactly is the difference between sci-fi and fantasy anyways?
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"but it's your house too!"
And??? Human beings thrive on praise for overcoming struggles even when they're small.
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I can't tell if these are cloud or a different character or a mod or if my brain is just eroding itself with transfem cloud rot
Has enough time passed that I can simp for Claudia on main?
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Nat 1 being a guaranteed fail.
Every gun has a 5% chance of misfiring.
Every world-class archer has a 1 in 20 chance of missing any target.
You could try to drop an elephant on a tortoise and it has a 5% chance to dodge it.
No. Stop that.
Hey TTRPG Twitter: What are some things D&D has normalized that you’d like to see phased out.
Alignment has gone the way of the Dodo and I think we’re better for it. We’re talking about initiative not being in DH but I wanna know what else you’d like to see gone.
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Bioware's obsession with making the gayest looking women straight needs to be studied in a lab
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5. Fear of Difference: fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate pre-existing fears in the form of racism and nationalism.
In Helldivers 2, it's strongly implied that the enemy would engage in diplomacy if it wasn't for the fear humanity drills deep into the Helldivers
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Some notes:
- not every one of his 14 points appear in all fascist movements; they are 14 ways in which fascism tries to exert control.
- Fascism is not a coherent system. the 14 ways just need to be present, and fascism will coagulate around it.
Let's get into it:
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those trying to get the word out about Super Earth's actual actions, or even those simply trying to research it, and you do so with EXTREME prejudice.
On top of that, moving outside the designated area has you designated a traitor and targeted by allied artillery
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Almost to a fault, Helldivers 2 follows the Ur-Fascist playbook and plays them up to eleven. It is not a criticism of democracy or of socialism and can only be mistaken as such for those falling for obvious in-universe propaganda.
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Lesbians fighting for their life rn
Kristen Stewart’s Love Lies Bleeding LA premiere look 🔥
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I'm going to say this very loudly so everyone can hear me:
If you are afraid of being a burden, please don't worry.
You are.
It's just that that's okay. We are taught that being a burden is an act of reprehensible evil and that's a fucking lie to keep you from being cared for.
We are supposed to be burdens to each other. We are supposed to be loved. If you’re too selfish to take one another person’s pain, do us all a favor and go live alone in the woods somewhere.
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This is fascinating because if that's the official story I'm just really curious what the in-universe "real" story is :3
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9. Life Is Permanent Warfare: There must always be an enemy to fight.
Pretty obvious again. It's also implied through transmission towers that Super Earth are deliberately seeding bugs on planets in order to keep the conflict (and the oil) flowing
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11. Everybody Is Educated To Become A Hero: linked to a cult of death. The Hero is impatient to die.
A part of the gameplay. When you die, you don't respawn, a different "hero" with the same build and voice is sent in. Death is honorable and good.
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I used to feel bad for Wendy Carlos because I thought people were misgendering a trans man just doing his best with those sideburns and then the truth was even better
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7. Obsession with a Plot: appeal to xenophobia, fear of Disloyalty, and hyping up the enemy threat. Every enemy presence is an existential threat and a danger to society and civilization.
Literally the whole point of the game lol.
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I'm gonna say it: trans women have a biological advantage in writing compelling character arcs because we go through a fucking hero's journey just to exist on a day to day basis
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14. Newspeak: using an impoverished vocabulary to limit critical reasoning and focus on certain key catchy phrases
Democracy and Freedom as buzzwords are all over the place
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8. Simultaneously Too Strong and Too Weak. Fascism plays up the power of a certain disfavored minority while at the same time pointing to a perceived decadence or weakness as proof of their feebleness in the face of the Strong fascist.
not all that present in-game.
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Everyone's always like "oooooh the devil is seductive" but you're clearly not, Stephen, and I'm not going to burn down the orphanage for 250 gold pieces. Give me a huge, narrative, mechanical bonus. No downsides. Then you've begun to seduce me.
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They say art is Dead
YouTuber James Somerton Releases Suspiciously Familiar 4-Hour Apology Video
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(also for those wondering:
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6. Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class: fascism pits the middle class against a lower class and makes them appear as both a threat and a drain on society's resources
Not really present in Helldivers 2, though you can argue that form C-01 plays into this. For context -
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Form c-01 is a permit that needs to be filled out b4 you can conceive a child. Limiting births like this is a way to not only control the population but also create resentment between the middle class - who need to obey the law in order to keep their standing - & the lower class
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You know, I'd be more careful about saying things like "JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier" no matter how true it is because JK "allegedly a Holocaust denier" Rowling is notoriously litigious about people calling her things that are true, like, allegedly, a Holocaust denier
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