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Sophie

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

But I can't prove that none of it works. And you become a dithering idiot in the face of all you have to do is be positive. A simple lie is always going to be better than a laborious refutation.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

It's just a big old scramble and you just wish it works. And also it's such a insidious grift because it's so easy then when it doesn't work for you to point out that you did it magic hard enough in various ways.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

It's just a big old scramble and you just wish it works. And also it's such a insidious grift because it's so easy then when it doesn't work for you to point out that you did it magic hard enough in various ways.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

It's just a big old scramble and you just wish it works. And also it's such a insidious grift because it's so easy then when it doesn't work for you to point out that you did it magic hard enough in various ways.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

Yeah. Yeah. You know, as we're talking, I just had the realization that like what kind of โ€“ what Oprah offers is kind of like those like right-wing pregnancy crisis centers near like abortion clinics because it's like โ€“ It's a simulacrum of the thing that you actually need. And it just serves these horrible ends. I guess those are at least...

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

Yeah. Yeah. You know, as we're talking, I just had the realization that like what kind of โ€“ what Oprah offers is kind of like those like right-wing pregnancy crisis centers near like abortion clinics because it's like โ€“ It's a simulacrum of the thing that you actually need. And it just serves these horrible ends. I guess those are at least...

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

Yeah. Yeah. You know, as we're talking, I just had the realization that like what kind of โ€“ what Oprah offers is kind of like those like right-wing pregnancy crisis centers near like abortion clinics because it's like โ€“ It's a simulacrum of the thing that you actually need. And it just serves these horrible ends. I guess those are at least...

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

directed and intentional and full of lies and throughout all this i will say the thing that is like still kind of there is like it doesn't it still doesn't seem like oprah is being intentionally eve or anyway there's enough plausible deniability here oh yeah yeah i mean there's there's a ton of it and like it's important not to as we kind of litigate bastardism

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

directed and intentional and full of lies and throughout all this i will say the thing that is like still kind of there is like it doesn't it still doesn't seem like oprah is being intentionally eve or anyway there's enough plausible deniability here oh yeah yeah i mean there's there's a ton of it and like it's important not to as we kind of litigate bastardism

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

directed and intentional and full of lies and throughout all this i will say the thing that is like still kind of there is like it doesn't it still doesn't seem like oprah is being intentionally eve or anyway there's enough plausible deniability here oh yeah yeah i mean there's there's a ton of it and like it's important not to as we kind of litigate bastardism

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

But even what you're describing, like among her peers, she at least will acknowledge things like affirmative action. Whereas like every single billionaire got to where they are with โ€“ immense like moments of chance they high rolled many times in a row and like the overarching like common commonality between most of them is they believe that none of that was chance

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

But even what you're describing, like among her peers, she at least will acknowledge things like affirmative action. Whereas like every single billionaire got to where they are with โ€“ immense like moments of chance they high rolled many times in a row and like the overarching like common commonality between most of them is they believe that none of that was chance

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

But even what you're describing, like among her peers, she at least will acknowledge things like affirmative action. Whereas like every single billionaire got to where they are with โ€“ immense like moments of chance they high rolled many times in a row and like the overarching like common commonality between most of them is they believe that none of that was chance

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

Oprah at least has a little bit of giving deference to someone else.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

Oprah at least has a little bit of giving deference to someone else.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

Oprah at least has a little bit of giving deference to someone else.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

So, you know, I don't know where we want to go there. I mean, it is sort of that like... Not mudslinging because it's factual. That's like... I mean, again, we're barely past the era of... Or not even. We're still within the era of... men on the internet being like, oh, I can't wait till they're, you know, XYZ, like, young woman is 18.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

So, you know, I don't know where we want to go there. I mean, it is sort of that like... Not mudslinging because it's factual. That's like... I mean, again, we're barely past the era of... Or not even. We're still within the era of... men on the internet being like, oh, I can't wait till they're, you know, XYZ, like, young woman is 18.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

So, you know, I don't know where we want to go there. I mean, it is sort of that like... Not mudslinging because it's factual. That's like... I mean, again, we're barely past the era of... Or not even. We're still within the era of... men on the internet being like, oh, I can't wait till they're, you know, XYZ, like, young woman is 18.

Behind the Bastards
Part Five: Is Oprah Winfrey a Bastard?

It's a little bit of that, like, this shit was definitely happening. By the way, definitely is happening. And there's whispers about it, but, like, you kind of just, like, there's a limit to what you can do. So, like...