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Comeback refers to a quick reply to a critical remark which basically shuts down the critic immediately. The best comebacks are always a step ahead in restoring karma, defending the accused ones, and making that snap which is entertaining to anyone who witnesses it.

And since experiencing a real-life clapback which is both fun and witty is somewhat rare, we turn to the internet, or this Twitter page, to be precise, to give ourselves a masterclass in savage comebacks.

Named “Clever Comebacks,” the page is busy sharing exactly what it promises in the title and from 75.5k followers, it seems like it’s doing a pretty good job. More masterclass comebacks from the same account can be found in our previous feature right here!

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Paulo Freitas
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Call the fire department, thats is not a burn, thats a frikking forest fire....

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    waddles
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what if you’re a disabled werewolf

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    In a previous interview, Bored Panda spoke with Abigail Paul, an actress, standup comedian and improviser who has been giving seminars on incorporating theatre techniques for purposes beyond the stage to schools, businesses and organizations.

    Abigail argues that the secret to any comeback is connection. “If you are really listening to (and connecting with) another person, you are taking them in fully, aware of who they are, the context in which you are dealing with this person,” she said.

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    N Miller
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh, obnoxious hateful b*tch. Has she not crawled back under her rock yet. Could've done with her name being censored - the less air time this oxygen thief is given the better

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if the shoes are long enough that takes care of social distancing

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    TooTall
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They forgot to mention the historical forcing conversion to Atheism through torture and/or being killed...

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    Moreover, according to the comedian, people do this assessment unconsciously. In fact, we aren't even always aware that we are always sizing up other people. “This is too often because we are so focused on ourselves.” A great comeback feels great because it was earned, Abigail argues. “It was spontaneous. The commenter was probably really listening. It was unique to that moment, set of people, situation,” she told us some time ago.

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, that’s because we’re so.... I can’t be bothered to finish that sentence 🥱😴

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    Jaaawn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Members of the Church of Satan are some of the most charitable and humane people around! It's only feared because of the name.

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    waddles
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i think he’s hacking the ENTIRE system

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    One of the biggest challenges in saying a comeback is making sure it doesn’t sound mean. But Abigail reminds us that a comeback is not a clapback. The latter one “is generally sarcastic, but a clapback might be fun among friends.”

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    At the same time, the context of a situation always matters. “In working on status exercises in improv, we try to get people to see that the easiest way to raise another person's status is to lower their own. We see that in standup comedy too. Usually it works best if the comic is the butt of the joke, not the audience. (There are plenty of exceptions.)”

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    girlsrock4ever
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And also, expecting them to be happy is first of all sexist, and also dumb because how would they be happy when so many problems plague femalekind, like pink tax, groping, jerks like this guy, etc. Today in my bus some guy apparently pulled up the shirt of & touched this girl in her private parts. That girl is a 4th grader, and that guy is that age or younger! (my school goes from Nursery to 12th grade).

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    Bender Bending Rodríguez
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haters gonna hate. Potatoes gonna potate. Karens gonna talk to a lawyer about suing an underage child. Something tells me there's more than just hairstyle why kids call that karen, karen.

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol, apply líquid nitrogen to the calcinated área....

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    While you don’t need to be too self-effacing for a good comeback, if it can lift other people up, the job is done. “When it works well and gains the speaker a laugh and cements the bond that says, we are in this together,” Abigail explained.

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    While comebacks can be used as an excellent communication tool, listening skills are the most important thing. “Paying attention, making accurate observations about the people in the room, and how they feel—these are the tools that will make a comeback really shine,” Abigail explained.

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    Caro Caro
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jenni is going places and she has my vote. What a gutsy intelligent young lady.

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My granddad died of Parkinson’s so it would be a slap in the face for me if a cure is discovered now

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    Rowlie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These brands are like a pets fast food- it tastes great so pets love it but there is no real nutrition value.

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    waddles
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the dishwasher is a scary thing, nearly as terrifying as the microwave

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine if no one could have guns full stop. Then I feel like this wouldn't really be a problem

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    Marleinah Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True beauty comes from the inside. This new gf must be a better person than the ex.

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and PASSPORTS! EVERY COUNTRY YOU'VE BEEN TO HAD THOSE!! THE HORRORR

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    Minna
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aaah the good old myth about how you can check a woman’s virginity, thought we had come further than this 😴

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well it involves a time machine, some ballpoint pens and a whole lot of dumplings. Who's with me?

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    CEOs: what is this thing you call a “living wage”

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    waddles
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i don’t know what my body is but it has a lot of cat hair

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still cracks me up no matter how many times I read it

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    James016
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What did the Romans ever do for us?

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    Hotdogking
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or when anti-vaxxers tweet that they’re pro-life!...... too soon?

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    Autistic apricot
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I get so mad at this, if the rest of the clothes turned back, why didn’t the shoe? And also if the shoe didn’t turn back when it fell off, why didn’t she take off other things so they would stay?

    GirlFriday
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Cinderella would have just stripped naked, say around 11:45, she could have stayed with the Prince and avoided all of that trouble.

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    Zedrapazia
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As far as I remember Grims original, it didn't fall off, but the prince tried to catch her in a human sized glue trap on a stair on the floor and it got stuck

    Abby da great
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if you think about it the prince was a creep who stalked her through the entire kingdom

    Violet Jensen
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wrote a retelling where Cinderella was a trans girl at her senior prom and the “prince” was like “well, there’s probably only one girl in town with size 14 in men’s.”

    Demongrrrrl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd read that! Can you send me a copy?

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    DrBronxx
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say....the alpha male has a point.

    Michelle C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well duh...it's a glass slipper, and glass isn't breathable so her foot got sweaty and it slipped off...imagine the smell

    O.M.Miki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was always impressed at the idea the shoe was f*****g glass and she could run and dance in them like that s**t wouldn't shatter and firework shards into her soles lol

    Zee
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I was Cinderella I would WWE that b**ch to get my shoe back, ain't nobody ever take my shoe from me.

    MarchingBanda786
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hmmmm I wonder what the censored words say, they blurred them out soooo well

    tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Book recommendation: Cinderella is dead. It's awesome and there's lesbians

    Artsy Bookworm
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes I've heard about that one. Hopefully will read it soon

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    Melissa Hamed
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The conundrum that is Cinderella.

    Eunice Robertson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're seriously getting twisted over a fairy tale?

    SheilaWeila
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are the little grumpy girl at storytime, aren't you?

    NekoNonsense
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It honestly kills me that nobody seems to know that in the Grimm's fairytale the prince put pitch on the steps of the stairs outside the palace in the hopes of stopping Cinderella from running away on that last night of the dances (there were three nights of dances, first one she wore all silver, the second she wore all gold, the third night, diamonds and glass slippers). But Cinderella ran down the steps covered in pitch, and that's why the glass slipper fell off her foot and got left behind. Disney has f'd up so many of the Grimm's Fairytales... and other fairytales and stories too.

    Pieter LeGrande
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Moral of the story: Don't run in high heels.

    PjandBolt
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A good thing to take in consideration, Cinderella's shoe size is 4 1/2

    Collin Lyle
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You try running in a custom made glass slipper with sweaty feet

    K.A. Hansen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The prince shouldn't have needed the dang shoe to fit, he should've remembered her FACE.

    Senjo Krane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was a fairy tale, not a documentary.

    Daniel-Teodor Circa
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Disney are trying to wash their sins of portraying the girl like week persons who's jurny is to get a prince with introducing lesbians in their stories and this is a good thing because if before the girl stayed with a person for their status and then for the others thing now the love is the most important

    the laughing koala
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    in the original story he saw what house she went into also the clothes did not change back

    LiuLiu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    because people - it was a magical shoe & could only fit the owner of the shoe, that is how magic works

    Marcus Rantala
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I recall a version of the original story did not speak of a "shoe", but a fur slipper (sp?). That's old folk tales for you.

    Ashley Schriber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about the fact that this prince was supposedly in love with her, but couldn't recognize her by sight? Could he not be bothered to leave his home to identify her? Did he suffer from prosopagnosia?

    Jan Dunn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if it was glass why didn't it break on those Stone steps when it fell off.

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    do. not. put. the. salmon. in. the. wet. towels. and. then. the. microwave.

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    Lace Neil
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Who died in the oil spill caused by BP?

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    waddles
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that the 37 years i took training a cat army were put to good use?

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    Brendan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who wrote that headline? Cromwell?

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    waddles
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    did the pandemic teach you NOTHING

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean considering people die for worthless causes I might call it a loss.

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    Anna Ekberg
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha! Loved this one seriously though I hope she burns in hell.

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    indiecognition
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does it matter if a mind is changed when it never gets used anyway?

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    Brendan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Hey tree, you OAKay? WOOD you care to LEAF with me FIR a drink"

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    N Miller
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The person asking the question also has no idea that Musk isn't an inventor, but an investor. That wealth grows over time and get-rich-quick schemes are 99% scams. They probably believe in pulling oneself up by the bootstraps and the American Dream is still attainable. Bless 'em

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    censorshipsucks
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    personally I'd feel safer as an african with their tyres gone. At least I won't get shot for walking in the street.

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    Tamra
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The right absolutely chooses violence, but in subversive ways. Curtailing women's rights over their own bodies, resulting in more deaths from botched abortions; anti-LGBTQ rhetoric resulting in more violence against that group; steadfastly against gun control...need I go on?

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    cadena kuhn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once took a book to a bar. Bf and his friend wanted to go play pool. I wasn't playing so I brought my book. A guy came over and grabbed my book saying he needed to know what was so interesting I was reading it in a bar

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    Monday
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait...you guys don't download your bread every morning?

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    MarchingBanda786
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read this as “you can’t even afford half a roommate” at first 💀

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    Got Myself 4 Pandas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YAS! I love that workers are finally seeing their value

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and that's why we don't give strangers our Venmo, always give social security number first-so you can trust them.

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    Wadofbees
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both of these things still took a lot of effort and work to produce tho.

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    The lesbian knitting panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sir this is the maths department for a highschool they're not supposed to learn about that for another few years

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