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“Britain’s anti-government mascot”. Iranian nut on the spectrum. Mother of cats. I use hyperbole a lot.

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Ms International for ELLE Arabia
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Recession after recession before you have reached 30 is not a sign that capitalism works
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I’m very sick of the whole world trying to manipulate and bully women into having children but doing nothing to make life any easier for women who do. From the health risks to the pitiful maternity leave to the even worse government support, for many women there are no benefits
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How it started: How it's going:
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Probably in a minority but when I give money to a homeless person I actually don’t care what they spend it on because it’s theirs now
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If one side can cut off internet, food, water, electricity, and still be seen as the victim does this not tell you anything about the power dynamic here?
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BREAKING: Israel set to cut off internet connectivity in Gaza from tomorrow
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Actual insanity - a middle class family got a 19 yo binman with a baby on the way sacked, bc kicking their snowman upset their 3 year old. Toddlers get upset about literally everything, I’m sure he would’ve got over it when it melted the next day but this is going to spoil him
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Working for five days and resting for two is the biggest ever scam that’s been normalised
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If Priti Patel doesn’t have to face trial over her expenses then we truly live in a fascist state because it’s not possible to spend £77k on eyebrows. This is blatant money laundering lol
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English people say “why is Boris Johnson talking to us like we’re stupid” then proceed to have a picnic in the park
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Working for five days and resting for two
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What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore?
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Cheating the taxpayer is only a crime if you live on a council estate or have to pick between food and heating. When some toff in a suit steals 10 billion of our money to give to his friends, he keeps his job as health secretary
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My mum and dad, wedding day 1980 Tehran
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“If you’re poor, then why do you have a phone? Why do you drive to work instead of walking 23 miles? Why do you go to the pub on a Friday?” This conviction that poor people don’t deserve literally anything is a result of years of Tory Tabloid divisive propaganda
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Remember when this youtuber girl started acting a bit weird and all her fans thought she had kidnapped by Isis. That was a crazy summer
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Priti Patel is trying to amend laws so that you can’t protest against her unless she pre-approves the protest. Do you know how SCARYYYY and dangerous that woman is
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This is the first generation where both men and women in a household work full time and barely get by, and people think they’re the laziest and most entitled how’d that happen?
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Can’t wait to come and look at this while my house is freezing and I can’t afford bread
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Big Ben’s £80,000,000 new look after five years hidden in scaffolding #BigBen
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Pub and bar staff deserve triple pay today
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Priti Patel thinks £36 a week for asylum seekers is too much for the taxpayer to afford but £77,000 for her eyebrows isn’t
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I genuinely want to know why Diane Abbott drinking a mojito on the train caused more outrage than Matt Hancock’s sister receiving £300k of public money or Boris Johnson’s mistress receiving £100k of public money, like do people actually think that was worse or?
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Lily Sullivan’s mums impact statement made me cry. She had 14 miscarriages before having her only daughter and lived for her. A simple night out, she went to pick her up, and Lily was murdered by a man she said no to before making it to the car
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The Money Saving Expert has said he is virtually unable to help with people with their rising bills anymore, and that there is no amount of money management or tightening belts that will work. This government has completely torpedoed the country and our quality of life.
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I don’t understand why most health services are free under the NHS but dentistry isn’t. It’s not a cosmetic procedure, everyone needs teeth
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Brits flocked to Dubai when the UK was put into lockdown and now Dubai has had to impose new restrictions to their actual citizens that could have been avoided had they just been left alone. Every day the British find new ways to be ashamed and yet they are not
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Speak up for what you believe in: cocktails have no business being over £10
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The quality of life in the UK is so pathetic. Just work, pay bills, and use whatever little money is left at the weekend trying to forget about how crap life is here. The cycle seems so unfulfilling
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My mum’s friend has an allotment next to Jeremy Corbyn’s allotment and once invited him to a bbq they were having there, not really expecting him to turn up, but he did and brought dishes 😭😭
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The fact there are people in the UK dying by suicide with £4 in their bank account while waiting over 6 weeks for a universal credit payment while Tory councillors are buying themselves Cotswold mansions and holiday homes with taxpayer money is despicable tbh
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Stormzy: donates 50% of his net worth Marcus Rashford: writes to the Prime Minister White celebrities: can’t we all just get along 😔💔
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“I would never not date someone because of their race so I found it really offensive that you wouldn’t date me because of my cosmetic surgery” is the maddest statement I have heard all year #loveisland
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I genuinely don’t understand why poor people claiming a benefit so they can eat makes British people angry but this doesn’t
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Prince Charles has collected £1m+ from people in Cornwall who died without leaving a will. When people die without one or surviving relatives, the property of their estate passes to the Duke of Cornwall under rules relating to the Duchy… Read more here:
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I don’t understand what people of the general public mean when they thank the Queen for all she has done for them. What has she done.
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What is the point of having a High Court if they keep finding that Tory MPs acted unlawfully and absolutely nothing happens
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Priti Patel is still intent on deporting the two Indian men in the Glasgow raid, who have lived there for a decade and work as a mechanic and a chef. How exactly would their deportation make the country safer? There is no justification for her evilness
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So it turns out that a hotel that people are being forced to pay over £2k to quarantine at, Sofitel Heathrow, is owned by a billionaire Tory donor 😭😭😭 you could not make it up
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Not Matt Hancock saying that six cases of voter fraud is “six too many”. How many cases of child poverty is too many? One million? Two million? Five million?
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Downing St really cancelled Eid, said “the BAME community” were not taking the rules seriously enough and then had multiple illegal parties
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Sex Education is creating British superstar actors the way Skins did
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The Royal Family could have easily funded this funeral with the money they pay no tax on, but chose to let the taxpayer pay for it during a cost of living crisis and the entire country is on its knees. These are the people that everybody respects and reveres so much?
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Elephants starting to evolve tuskless because of poaching is the saddest thing I’ve heard for a long time. Humans are the planet’s biggest poison
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Abolish cooking websites where you have to scroll through their life story before getting to the actual recipe
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One of the greatest speeches ever on war from Tony Benn - “aren’t Arabs terrified? Do they not weep when their children die? What fools we are, when war is just a computer game for our children”. And note who is behind him.
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White working class people also need to understand that the Royal Family does not represent them
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Let me get this straight, people using £20 of their £200 benefit to buy alcohol is a crime below contempt but MPs on 80k using an open bar - paid by the taxpayer - is perfectly fine and ok?
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I would rather my tax paid for children from poor families to eat at school than politicians braised beef lunch.
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I really think the UK could boost its economy by making domestic holidays more affordable. There are lots of places that would be nice holiday locations but nobody is going because of £280 trains, extortionate hotels, £24 sandwiches etc while travelling to Europe is like £14
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Maybe Corbyn supporters are part of a cult or maybe they’re just against things like this, I think I know which is more likely
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I don’t find it funny that all of Corbyn’s policy suggestions that were ridiculed are now being played out and celebrated in real time. I’m just angry. We had our chance
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Free internet to help poorer pupils in England study online
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I would again like to remind everyone that Corbyn did warn us on multiple occasions of what the Tories were planning and has transpired to be right on every one of them. If you didn’t vote for him, that’s on you. We had our chance
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You don’t want compulsory tests, you don’t want vaccinations, you don’t want lockdowns, you don’t want to be declined entry from certain places… but you want covid to go away 😭😭 make it make sense
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Universal credit is £400 p/m and if you do any work on the side then it gets taken out of that. I don’t understand how anyone can believe that “benefit scroungers” are living luxury lifestyles off that amount. Goes to show that people hate the vulnerable more than they like facts
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Help him
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Not my dad giving me relationship advice when he’s divorcing for a fourth time. Bravo. Henry VIII
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My least favourite by-product of capitalism is that people (especially in the UK) think that if you’re poor you don’t deserve literally anything. Like if you work a low wage job or are on benefits you’ll be shamed for owning a phone or ordering a takeaway and this makes NO sense
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If the only way to buy a house is by never going out, doing anything, buying anything or enjoying life then I do not want to buy a house. Hearing stories of people living like Oliver Twist so that they could afford a property is not motivating to me at all
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Real Londoners walk down the platform so they can get on the train at the exact spot that the exit is for where they need to get off
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So London was in Tier 2 for all of ten days before Boris and his mates changed their minds again. They have had ALL year to control the virus and it’s so frustrating to see other countries resume normal life while our incompetent money grabbing government wastes our lives
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“£21k is not a liveable wage in London.” 💰📈 Twitter: “what are you talking about. Rent £7, phone £2, bills £4, food £2.50, you’ll be rich in no time”
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£77k on eyebrows
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I am noticing a pattern
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Stacey Solomon presented the critical thinking which gets dismissed because of her accent and the media’s dumbing down of her. She’s right. The royal family are just celebrities and it could have been any of us in that position because they did nothing to deserve it.
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Not being funny but after people give blood they are advised to rest and avoid activity as they likely to feel fatigued and faint, but when they have blood pouring out of their vagina for days they are expected to come to work as usual with a smile on their face
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Big fuck you to M&S who realised that Aldi made a replica cake that some parents can actually afford so in return, sued them. What a load of Tories
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I’m sick of seeing £19k, £21k salaries in London, that is simply not enough to keep anyone going in this city unless you live with parents and have 100% disposable income. And if the director thinks it is, why don’t they try
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Errol Graham, a disabled man, starved to death after the DWP stopped his benefits. His 28.5kg body was found by bailiffs who had to broken down his front door to evict him
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EXCLUSIVE: Peers begged for 'hardship fund' when Covid cut their allowance to £162 a day
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Rishi Sunak gave his wife, who is worth £430 million, covid relief funds of £1.3 million. He also voted to scrap a £20 uplift from the most vulnerable people in the country. He has no integrity, and should never be near the PM job.
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RIP British summer. 1st June - 3rd June 2021
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He woke up in the morning and packed flowers and a machete, with the full intention of killing her if she said no. This was premeditated murder and I hope he gets slammed with the highest sentence possible. RIP to that poor girl and her family
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Racists saying “I was hacked” is hilarious. Who exactly are you for you to be targeted by hackers please? You have 12 followers
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For our entire lives, women have it drilled into them how to avoid male sexual violence when it’s nothing to do with us, it’s not our problem, and I’m sick of it, it will never stop no matter what we do, either educate men or lock them up
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Corbyn couldn’t be trusted because free broadband “wasn’t realistic” so instead we voted in a party that took away our human rights and imprison people for protesting or writing articles against their favour. Good job guys! Very good decision
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Spared jail, AND kept his job. And Priti Patel wants to give them more power
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Drunken off-duty police officer, 25, who attacked woman walking home spared jail
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Our taxes should be funding the NHS, our infrastructure, the country’s most vulnerable. How does an MP who lives in luxury claiming hundreds of thousands on her personal care and her clothes and her cupcakes not enrage you?
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All the people who claimed the NHS isn’t really being sold off because they didn’t turn up to the GP the day after election and get charged an entry fee need to understand what privatisation looks like. It is done part by part, section by section
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Ear wax syringing no longer free on NHS in England, minister confirms
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They put single mothers in jail for fraudulently claiming a little extra on benefits so their kids can eat but a Tory peer claimed £300,000 on expenses to mend potholes in his driveway and that’s somehow perfectly legal, lol the UK is not a real place.
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I would like Ash Sarkar to host a show called “Explain it to me like I’m 5”
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Banks 🤝 thinking you can’t afford a £750 pm mortgage when you are paying £950 pm in rent
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In the 80s, my mum rented a flat in Old Street for £9 a week. Today in Old Street, in 2020, I bought a chicken wrap and bottle of water for £9 from a coffee shop
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Horrific. An 18 year woman gave birth in her prison cell alone and bit through the umbilical cord herself because her cries for help were ignored (her baby passed shortly afterwards) and no this didn’t happen in 1542 it happened in England in 2019
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After Sarah Everard was handcuffed by Wayne Couzens and shoved into his car, there must have been a point that she realised that this was a false arrest and something terrible was about to happen. I can’t imagine how scared she must have felt in her last moments 💔
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@sweets_itweett Me when I’m 80 and this song comes on
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Just a reminder for people who refuse to give money to homeless people in case they spend it on drugs, if you had to sleep on concrete you’d be on crack too
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Me: I’m getting fed up of discussing politics, it’s so draining Also me:
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Love Island has dumped fast fashion sponsors and this year’s show will be sponsored by eBay… with all the contestants wearing second hand clothes!
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I don’t think people realise that tourists don’t come to the UK to meet the royal family, they come to visit their many establishments that they don’t live in, which will still be there without them lmao
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I haven’t heard a peep from Jamie Oliver about actual accessibility to healthy food. I haven’t heard him pressure the government on relieving food poverty in the UK. His brand is very much just class shaming disguised as caring about health
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At this point I’m convinced that all British people love to do is complain because what lockdown are they protesting?
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The officer who killed George Floyd has had his charge changed to second degree murder, while the other officers present are now also facing charges. Protesting works. Petitions work.
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You know why I liked Amber (other than her being a hot babe)? She was only rude to men 😭😭😭😭😭
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This country prioritises ruining young people’s lives before helping them or giving another chance. She is 21 with no former convictions. Jailed for three years for taking a drug at Creamfields which I am sure you will find dusted all over the Commons.
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I notice that you have not mentioned that she had repeatedly raised concerns of a paedophile ring to BBC bosses before being taken out by a professional hitman on her doorstep
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Murdered BBC presenter Jill Dando was 'just in wrong place at wrong time'
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Countries with high tax rates (particularly in Scandinavia) have a great welfare system to fall back on when hardship hits, which is why their citizens accept it. Only in the UK do people accept tax increases for literally nothing in return
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Which part of the royals being “so good for our economy” does a sex abuse case costing the British taxpayer $14 million in settlements fall into
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Liverpool is one of my favourite places to work. It’s small, independent, the people are friendly and everyone hates Margaret Thatcher
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One thing about the Brits is that they will not care about any issue until it personally affects them. That’s why so many were convinced people on benefits lived in luxury until covid took away their job and they realised life on benefits is actually shit and degrading
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@Postsubman So he employed the ones who were that desperate, not the ones who valued their time and respected themselves 😂
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I am not surprised. I think a lot of women can say they were 150% more catcalled, harassed and followed by men when walking home in their school uniform than they are now as an (objectively more attractive) adult
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The only argument that people can come up with for existence of the monarchy is tourism and it’s so frustrating because it’s a theory that’s been debunked over and over. Why am I explaining to adults that no tourist came to the UK to meet the Queen
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“If you double barrel your surname you would only be half my wife” is the most hilariously unhinged, controlling and narcissistic thing I’ve heard all year
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