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They are one million percent not-wrong about that, and may indeed have a clearer grasp of that problem than the horrified Democrat-voting bourgeoisie who have convinced themselves that this isn’t who we are.

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Painting Laszlo as some mascot for the self-involved petty bourgeoisie would be easy to do if Berry’s performance didn’t smash all expectations.

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“It’s designed to create a society that’s further dominated by the bourgeoisie. It’s ruling class population control.”

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"Before the MFM, the struggle on China's cultural front was a struggle between the new culture of the bourgeoisie and the old culture of the feudal class," he wrote.

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A daughter of Washington, D.C.’s Black bourgeoisie, Horn often attired herself in furs and white gloves, but she could outlast even the hardiest barfly as the night wore on.

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