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eBay's Decline, George Carlin, and the Censorship Crisis - The Earnest Mann Show
Episode 36516th August 2024 • The Earnest Mann Show • Earnest Mann
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The Decline of eBay and the Rise of Censorship in Modern Society

Hello, Earnest Mann here! Today, I'm reflecting on something that's either humorously absurd or deeply concerning—a sign of the times that encapsulates the decline of Western civilization. I’m discussing eBay and its transformation from a fun marketplace into a frustrating corporate entity, where sellers get the short end of the stick. My frustration peaked when I tried to ask a seller a simple question and was blocked by eBay's word police for using mild language. This episode is more than just a rant about eBay; it's a critique of how our society has become overly sensitive, censoring even the most harmless expressions. As we tiptoe around offensive words, we lose a piece of our freedom and humanity.

eBay's Evolution from Fun to Frustration

eBay was once a place of joy for buyers and sellers alike, but over time, it has transformed into something quite different. Corporate interests have shifted the balance, making it a haven for buyers but a minefield for sellers. I share my personal experience, highlighting how eBay's censorship has gone overboard, even flagging innocuous words in private messages. This is just a symptom of a broader societal issue where we’re increasingly treated like children, unable to express ourselves freely.

The Broader Impact of Language Censorship

The eBay experience reflects a larger trend of societal infantilization, where adults are treated like children, constantly monitored for offensive language. I discuss the broader implications of this shift, questioning how much freedom we’ve already lost as a result of these creeping changes. Our society's obsession with political correctness and non-offensiveness might seem trivial, but it signals a deeper dysfunction that could erode our fundamental liberties.

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if you work for a living why do you kill

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yourself

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working

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hello it's um it's

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Friday and I wanted to share something

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with you that I thought is well it's

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either pretty damn

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funny

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or it's a very sad

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Testament to the end of [ __ ] Western

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Civilization either way you're either

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going to work or maybe the day is over

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and you've already finished work so at

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this

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point depending on your mood you know I

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guess that's the way this is going to

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strike

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you but you know it's it's one of those

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things that we do every day in our daily

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lives

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so I just wanted to share it with

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you now what I'm going to talk about

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here is

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eBay

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now um You may love eBay or [ __ ] hate

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eBay I stopped using eBay for the most

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part many years ago

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and the reason for that without without

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going off into a tangent and I don't

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know how many of you may have noticed

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this but I'm talking about way

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back it was

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cool eBay was

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fun then just like everything else that

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corporatism entwines

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it became really well

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[ __ ] in my

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opinion one of the big

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things um was that it suddenly went

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from being a uh you know a fun place

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for buyers or sellers or you know what

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have you and it pretty much came that

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they apparently they decided um that

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somebody had to be [ __ ]

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on and so let's let's make it the

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seller

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so if you're a buyer on eBay it's it's

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great it's still great you can get a

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deal and for the most part it's it's

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fine if you're a

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seller not so

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much apparently like I said they had to

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go one way or the other they said [ __ ]

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it if anyone's going to really lose out

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of this deal let's make it the seller so

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basically you know that's why I gave up

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on them

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because as soon as very slowly very

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incrementally they were in you know

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that's the way everything is

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done that's the way the countries went

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that's the way everything's went

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whatever it

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is it happens slowly almost imp

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perceptually but it [ __ ]

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happens and so that's what they did they

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slowly shifted various fees and just all

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kinds of [ __ ] I I don't want to go into

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that that's not what this is about

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really it's about

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just the one exper the one thing that

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happened

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but it the [ __ ] just here we go

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again

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so I was interested in you know buying

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an item and I uh I had some

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questions for the

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seller so I sent him a question and

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I and um

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right out of the

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shoot right out of the [ __ ]

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shoot I sent a question and all I

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said was comparing a certain you know

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say this model to a previous model of

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what it is I'm checking

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out and I typed yeah I was curious about

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this model

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because the previous one was a piece of

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[ __ ] and I was wondering if they

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corrected

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this and you know finished it wasn't

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very

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long and I click Send and immediately I

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get the the red

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notice be

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beep the [ __ ] word Poli the bots of

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the word police were there

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you said a bad word you can't that word

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think you said

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[ __ ] I'm not kidding

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you

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so I

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didn't I wanted this item I didn't want

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to press my

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luck but I'm still Furious over it so I

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redid the thing and this time learned a

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trick sometimes even an old dog can

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learn a new trick and I learned a trick

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that if you're going to type something

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in make sure you copy

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it because when the red warning [ __ ]

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Banner came that I had committed a

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cardinal sin of saying the word

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[ __ ] which in German is shy by the

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way yeah that

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I it just completely lost its mind but

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it wipes out the

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message now fortunately I didn't you

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know I didn't I wasn't [ __ ] episodic

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about this I didn't write [ __ ] War

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and Peace cuz if that would have

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happened I would have yeah I might had a

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[ __ ] heart attack or something I

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would have I'm just so I'm still [ __ ]

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living I'm still pissed about this so

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anyway next time I I redid it and I

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changed get this you

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see

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sometimes you can get around the system

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but you got to know it so this time I

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put the same [ __ ]

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message but instead of the word [ __ ] I

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used yes that unit is complete

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defecation and

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apparently that was

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fine yeah the system didn't didn't lose

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its you know didn't lose its [ __ ]

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mind over it so

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um yeah I got past

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that my point about this is that

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if you think about this when we talk

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about people who we had this this was 40

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plus years ago when George Carlin set

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the world on fire with this the seven

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deadly sin words and it was this whole

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thing that went to the Supreme Court and

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like children can you

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believe we're still [ __ ] caught up on

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Words and this

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case it wasn't I didn't say [ __ ]

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or [ __ ] or

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[ __ ] liquor or you know none of these

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things just

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[ __ ] and within the

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parthona foul

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language shit's pretty

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mild but

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anyway that's what I mean by reflecting

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back because many many years ago on eBay

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this this this absurdity didn't

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exist but that's what I'm saying that we

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have

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grown to the point of being walking

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around and being so [ __ ] inbe

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silic that we're not

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instantaneously

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insulted and pissed

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off when someone some being some entity

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I don't care what you call it is telling

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us

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like we're little [ __ ] children don't

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say that it's a bad

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word like we're [ __ ]

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children and many people just say well

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okay I'm

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sorry and that's what I mean so my point

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to this in

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turn is if you want to know that is just

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one

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one little

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symptomatology of how [ __ ] up things

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are but I think it has Merit I'm not

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saying you know that I'm the brightest

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guy in the world by any

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means but I know what a [ __ ] adult is

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and I

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know that with on without rare occasion

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maybe a few special

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places that you know you should be able

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to say not only what you want to say but

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Express Yourself the way you want to it

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is fundamental it is a fundamental

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feeling it's being a [ __ ]

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adult and as long as you keep tolerating

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being pet on your head don't say that

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yny it's that nice word

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as long as you accept that it continues

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to go

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down I don't know if you want to call it

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the

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idiz of America the feminization the

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combination of the of the two I don't

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know I don't know what the [ __ ] to call

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this this this this this this projectile

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vomited tsunami of utter and total

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[ __ ] stupidity I don't

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know don't know but I know it when I see

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it and if everybody if you allow that

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and you wonder if you look I don't

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understand where did allar freedoms

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Liberties go oh because I'm [ __ ]

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clueless and I don't pay attention to

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anything

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well here it is it always starts small

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now maybe you think it's like well the

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but it's a small thing but it's not a

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[ __ ] small

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thing you go out on Friday nights you

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worked all week maybe you'll see this

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maybe you'll [ __ ] laugh I hope you do

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but the point is is that you've worked

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that is that is part of the

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agreement that's what I grew up with

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that was part of it you work all week

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you're going to get have some Brews and

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you're going to blow off some steam and

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no you're not walking around outside is

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in a library it's not a [ __ ]

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Church you should be able to say what

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the [ __ ] you want when you want within

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reason now I am not quickly I'll just

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end this with this I don't want to go

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endlessly into this my point is I don't

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believe a person I think it you know it

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actually looks Juvenile and kind of

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stupid if you you're doing this and

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you're just every other word is an F

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bomb and you're just doing it for the

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sake of doing

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it that in and of itself it's just kind

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of

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stupid but that's not what I'm talking

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about here and this wasn't even in

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public this is to another person but

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everybody has to be non

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offensive because something

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might offend

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someone and you can't have a [ __ ]

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society like

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that because it's dysfunctional and it's

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[ __ ] idiotic then as a consequence of

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that you have all the other [ __ ] that

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goes bad with

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it for the time being that's all I'm

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going to say on that

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