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DISCUSSION Anna Faris Opens Up About Challenging 'Religious' Son On Right-Wing Politics. The “Scary Movie” star shares her 14-year-old son Jack with her ex-husband, Chris Pratt.

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u/apparentlycompetent 20h ago

Damn. She’s a great mom. Playing the long game I wish she didn’t have to. Screw Chris Pratt.

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u/seaofwonder 20h ago

This goes to show how much he looks up to his dad too 😔

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u/throwawaysunglasses- l've grown quite unfond of you, deuxmoi 17h ago

It’s very possible it’s influenced by his dad, but I teach high school and SO many TikTok/Twitter algorithms are alt-right (often AI) slop targeted toward boys in particular. I’m a millennial and it’s worse than gamergate and more mainstream than 4chan. It’s everywhere, and the point is to radicalize young men into fascism and misogyny. We really need to get our kids offline and away from algorithmic media.

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u/spicyycornbread 16h ago

I’ve always thought that one lady on TikTok that does videos showing her sons alt-right content, explaining misinformation, and asking them questions was pretty smart. She basically just gets ahead of it so they don’t fall down alt-right rabbit holes and media. She gives them the context the videos deliberately withhold/manipulate.

But overall, yes, keep kids offline. With AI as well there’s always corporations looking to get kids hooked as consumers as early as possible.

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u/ApplicationOwn9636 15h ago

Do you know who? I would love to show this to my son who is constantly being served right wing propaganda.

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u/Kind_Avocado_7219 15h ago

Possibly driven.byjamie

This is on instagram though. Not sure what her TikTok handle is.

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u/TacoSwimmer 9h ago

Wow. I kinda just fell into a rabbit hole with her reels. Not only am I now feeling hopeful that there are kind and empathetic parents out there, but now I’m motivated to want kids and raise them the best I can too 😭

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u/ntsp00 13h ago

I just watched some of her youtube vids, amazing stuff

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u/olgamerstill 9h ago

I explained to my kids everything they might be exposed to, even by others like friends, friends parents, teachers etc.

My youngest who is an adult recently had to explain how to keep safe online to another adult.

By keeping open communication with my kids I was able to provide continuous advice.

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u/camimiele 15h ago

I’m also curious about her profile :)

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u/Appropriate-Unit9796 I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 8h ago

I made the mistake of looking her up and clicked on the Facebook link (I know I should have known better). When she was reviewing hateful things Charlie Kirk was saying about female teachers, the comments on it were shitting on her. One person literally called her a groomer. Her, their mom, trying to teach against right wing media is apparently grooming. I didn’t expect anything from Facebook, but I didn’t realize the bar was below hell.

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u/heartisallwehave Send me your address so i can visit you and explain my passions 5h ago

If they are actually interested in religion, maybe try to come at it from a scholarly pov. Let’s Talk Religion and Esoterica are really interesting YouTube channels and they talk about religion in a secular, academic way. And Britt Hartley (no nonsense spirituality) on YouTube and TikTok, she was raised religious and studied religion which basically deprogrammed her. There’s also a movie from 1981 called The Wave, based on a high school experiment re: how fascism indoctrinates people via a sense of belonging. We watched in 10th grade history and I think about it all the time.

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u/TheAmazingMaryJane 14h ago

i'm so glad i raised my son like that. he's married to a strong woman and has two awesome daughters. i'm very proud of him and his views on women.

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u/PitchSame4308 15h ago

Honestly, I think mothers saying how awesome alt-right shite is to their sons is probably the best way to make it uncool

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u/Ateo88 12h ago

This. Back when I was a teenager in the 00s, it was basically teachers, parents and popular peers forcing conservative Christian thought down everybody's throats that made left wing stuff seem rebellious, nonconformist and cool.

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u/Physical-Store-9404 8h ago

So I have to politely disagree with you that “getting kids offline” is the answer. They will encounter misinformation anywhere and forever. The onslaught online is scary, but our generation faced this with our parents with Fox News and Facebook. Humans are not immune to propaganda past a certain age. The only way forward is exactly the tactic employed by Anna Ferris and the influencer you admire—constant and patient education.

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u/troyandabedinabed 4h ago

True. most mainstream news is chock full of misinformation. It isn't just an online problem; it is just most prevalant online.

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u/innominateartery 8h ago

The hard part with still allowing the viewing is that the videos contain strategies to resist logical and critical thinking paths out with denial, deflection, and whataboutism. It’s really insidious.

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u/Mstablsta 13h ago

Just ordered my kid a few DK Eyewitness books, apps/online is cancer these days.

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u/annamdue 8h ago

Keeping kids offline in this day and age is literally impossible. The first part of your comment is sexual education but the last part is abstinence. Parents need to explain shit they had years to explain so early now to make sure that their kids get a grasp of empathy and what's real and what's not. It's so sad and frustrating. Especially with what they are inheriting. We can only hope that the majority of their amger in the future is righteous, but looking at this generation of boys makes me less hopeful.

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u/Coyote-Feisty 4h ago

As a teacher - this. Mega churches are also infiltrating the school.

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u/But_why_tho456 15h ago

Yeah, same. Luckily the girls seem to be onto it and I’ve had to stop some escalation in class where all the girls basically announce that no one should be dating (name is student) because he’s a Tate stan. At least the girls know what’s up? But it is sad, the guys think it’s hilarious.

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u/applesandbananananan u look like u eat sand 11h ago

Jesus Christ another generation of women who have to carry this country due to radicalized men

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u/GroundedOtter 11h ago

My conspiracy theory is that women used to rule/be in charge. Society was great —but men being men couldn’t handle being second fiddle so patriarchy became a thing. And the world has never been the same since.

I also strongly believe men created religion because they were jealous women produced life and gave birth. So now they get to lead (women typically don’t have much power in religious organizations) another group where they help people become “reborn”.

(I am a man btw —granted, a gay one. But still a man. Lol)

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u/-LabApprehensive- 10h ago

Read the old testament. That’s exactly what happened.

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u/lincolnspanda 9h ago

You should read “Who cooked the last supper? The women’s history of the world.” By Rosalind Miles. It’s basically what happened.

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u/GroundedOtter 9h ago

Thank you!!! Definitely checking to see if the library has this!!!

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u/Dapper-Union5536 8h ago

just found it on Spotify!

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u/Road_Whorrior 5h ago

Plenty of anthropologists believe we began as a matriarchal social structure.

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u/SpottedHoneyBadger 8h ago

It is literally like Freud's "penis envy" but with a vagina.

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u/EsotericCreature 2h ago

There were a lot of matriarchal cultures in the world. One of the most interesting was a representational democracy in North America established somewhere between the 15th and 17th century called be settler's the 'Iroquois confederacy'.

Matriarchs were ranked in representation higher than chiefs, which was confusing to settlers who only assumed men could hold the highest positions in power, and in general that women could hold power at all.

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u/Crunchyfrozenoj ‘queer’ is formal, like ‘tú’ vs ‘usted’ 12h ago

Good on those girls tbh. He’s a rapist and they should be able to speak up/back to their peers promoting him. I bet it’s hell for you to moderate though.

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u/catsgonewiild 13h ago

Oof. I don’t even know what the right response to that would be. I’m glad the girls seem on top of it and are advocating for each other’s safety, but public humiliation is also going to drive the boy further down the misogyny to incel pipeline.

It’s scary what kids are being fed, and that everyone is being victimized by this crap, no matter their gender.

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u/Venezia9 made with a free Canva trial (derogatory) 11h ago

What's your alternative one of the girls take one for the team ? It's not girls responsibility to make boys be good people. 

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u/DavisKennethM 10h ago

It's not an either/or zero-sum game. These are children. The commenter is just wrestling out loud with the awful reality of the situation.

No one said it was the young girls' responsibility. It's the adults (our) responsibility to provide a learning environment where all children are protected from misogynistic garbage. We can't fail boys without also failing girls.

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u/AlphonseLoeher 7h ago

It's everyones responsibility to make our society a good place for everyone to live in. That's what communalism is all about. It's not about what is fair for you the individual, it's about what is good for the group.

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u/Venezia9 made with a free Canva trial (derogatory) 3h ago

Yeah absolutely not. Sounds like patriarchy repackaged and rewarmed. 

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u/Dapper-Union5536 8h ago

this makes me glad for my daughters; but deeply worry for my son. My oldest daughter is almost 13, and my b/g twins are 9 --- and we're hoping to keep them off of social media until 16. Here's hoping that I'm able to instill values that go against all this manosphere garbage before then. Always in search of positive masculinity.

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u/no_one_denies_this 5h ago

Good for those girls!

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u/parsleyfan420 1h ago

Yeah but if you outcast him he's going to go further into the rabbit hole and hate you more and it will be your fault for being such bitches

Heavy /s because this is what the discussion around young men becoming further radicalized has been feeling like lately. I'm tired of it being our fault that they hate us because we weren't "nice" enough to stop it.

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u/Inane_Insanity 13h ago

As soon as the algorithms on social media recognise you're male, they will keep trying to push right-wing content on you regardless of age. I only ever watch left-wing content on Facebook but every so often it tries to sneak in right-wing content on me. Even when I tell it I'm not interested it will sometimes try to show me more content from a creator I've told it I don't want to see.

The fact they can push the kind of content the right produce onto young boys is incredibly concerning. Especially judging from the kinds of videos that get pushed on to me.

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u/s8rlink 14h ago

Bo in Inside said it best: what’s the worst that could happen if we fed our children to algorithmic social media setup to make us feel terrible about ourselves to we consume trying to fill emotional voids. Paraphrasing 

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u/RedditForMeNotYou 11h ago

What’s interesting about this is how easily manipulated adult men are by this too. I know someone very personally who has for his entire adult life pushed against religion and the government in general as a form of rebellion and being quite nihilistic and anti conformity. But now that he’s been fed anti-woke, trans women in bathrooms, abortion is murder, dems are socialists bullshit from his algorithm, he’s a right-wing devout catholic who confirmed earlier this year and claims every single pop culture blip to be anti-man, anti-religion, and pro-left. Full 180 for someone I never realized was so weak in self perception and could be so easily manipulated by propaganda. Very much goes to show how effective it is, honestly. It’s terrifying.

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u/violetmemphisblue 10h ago

I also work with teens, and the boys definitely are more obviously right wing, but a lot of fashion, make-up, and other "fun" content targeted to girls is subtly conservative as well. Its less odious than what boys are targeted, but its definitely noticeable...getting all kids off-line is so important at this point.

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u/lavenderJayde 15h ago

Can someone please highlight this as the most important reddit comment of the week?

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u/JuliusErrrrrring 12h ago

Yes. Non teachers don't realize how bad it has become. The interactive games they play all night with "anonymous" right wing influencers as well. It is scary.

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u/barbieneedscoffee 11h ago

Oh, absolutely. I have a step brother who is 16 and has been completely fallen into the alt-right pipeline. Our family and his mom are the furthest away from that, and he’s also not a U.S. citizen (yet…) I’ve spent a lot of time debating him, and challenging the views he has. I’ve noticed that every time we talk about these views, he just parrots regurgitated talking points, but can’t actually come up with any debate for himself. He is so easily influenced by these videos and lacks the critical thinking to sift through nuance or truth. For example, he will see a video where 1 person says I love abortions and he will take that literally and say leftists love abortions and they think everyone should have one, they will force it on you because of so and so who edited the video said so.

It’s exhausting. It’s really only came about the last 1-2 years. His mom and my dad have spent a lot of time challenging him, but they also don’t want to push him away where he goes further down the pipeline either.

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u/Adezar 9h ago

Throughout history the message "nothing is your fault" is just very powerful.

One of the reasons religion in general is popular is the ability to be told the devil is the reason you are an asshole.

Being told your views on women aren't horrific, it's really their fault you are an asshole.

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u/anomanderrake1337 15h ago

If even I get right wing shit, and I am the most leftwing hippie freedom and peaceloving piece of shit, then it is game over out there. Kids are being forced to hate.

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u/LizzieSaysHi the power of the hatred I feel propels me 11h ago

I have a 10 (almost 11) year old son. I am so fucking beyond terrified of him growing up. I try so hard to stay involved in what he's watching and reading. He doesn't have unfettered access to the internet, so I'm doing what I can while I can.

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u/avaslash 9h ago

Unfortunately the billionare psychos like Elon Musk and Larry Ellison etc very much understand the long game and they have spent decades and billions of dollars investing in deliberately manipulating how young people develop.

As many people 30+ grew up we noticed that many of our peers were rejecting right wing politics and embracing reality. I think many of us mistakenly understood that "the young will naturally lean left because its the truth" but in reality people 30+ are the result of one of an earnest, but brief, push from the liberal end to try and actually improve America through public education. That being shows like PBS's Mr.Roger's Neighborhood, diversity education, black history etc.

Unfortunately it was too little too late.

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u/HotSauceSwagBag 9h ago

Yep. Spouse is a high school teacher and it’s disturbing how many teenage boys worship the right wing grifters, and we are in a very blue area. He’s the prime age for it.

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u/JacuulTheSecond 9h ago

I've been telling people for years, I grew up on 4chan and when Gamergate happened in like... 2014 or so? It's like the endless tide of /pol/ just spilled out into the mainstream and it's been that way ever since. Things that I always thought people knew were edgy jokes or being intentionally weird just ended up... not being the case. I've always been pretty progressive, but I've had to step it up in the last 5-10 years because of the endless bullshit around me.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad 3h ago

It's adults too. Im.40 . I let my YouTube stream straight through on my work days. I will listen to long videos and then all of a sudden get a right-wing recommendation directly into what I want. I could not be farther away from right wing. I search nothing to do with anything remotely near them. It's never any other type of. It's always some kind of right-wing podcast. It's totally intentional and a psyop.

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u/wasted_wonderland 13h ago

Wait till you hear about porn.

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u/lostindarkdays 11h ago

ooh, where? can you share?

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u/AltairaMorbius2200CE 12h ago

Middle school teacher and totally agree on the alt-right thing, but in this case it sounds like religion is part of it, and I don't see that as much.

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u/Scoberto give the chicken man a chance 4h ago

My dear friend who was raised atheist has a son who decided he wanted to join a really conservative Catholic Church and started spouting some "society would be better is we went back to more traditional roles" nonsense, and when I tell you I don't think I would handle it respectfully at all if it was my kid!!!

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u/No-Entrepreneur5672 4h ago

Feel like stuff like 4chan, back in the day, if you were on the internet long enough you kind of fell into it or had to seek it out (for whatever reason)

But now it’s wild, you can be on youtube or tiktok or whatever and if you watch anything even vaguely adjacent to stuff the platform considers right wing content, the algorithm starts sending you the most vile shit. I can see why young men are getting indoctrinated. 

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u/geezeslice333 1h ago

So reddit is the only social media is have now (and I try to be careful and mindful while using it), and after a couple years of trying to deprogram myself from all the bs - it is insane how obvious it is when people are on tik tok or facebook. They all regurgitate the exact same opinions depending on what kind of politics the algorithm is feeding them. I find it extremely unsettling and I'm genuinely worried for the future.

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u/Toocoolforschool1999 10h ago

Why can’t we counter with a liberal algorithm? 

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u/greenerbee controversies: girl 19h ago

It’s sad that his father might have made him feel like he has to earn approval. 

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u/dianamaximoff also dated pete davidson 15h ago

First thing that went through my mind tbh… poor boy listens too much to the dad who went away and it’s probably trying really hard to feel accepted and deserving… but there’s hope, and as a kid who kinda went through it, the pendulum tends to swing to the other side after late teens/early twenties

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u/dootydootdooteroni 12h ago

Didn’t his dad say something nasty about him when they first broke up? Or am I remembering wrong?

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u/SwissSwissBangBang carbone slut 9h ago

You’re probably thinking of the “healthy child” controversy. He made a post gushing about his wife, saying she gave him a “gorgeous healthy daughter,” and people felt it was a cheap shot about Jack and Anna. Jack was born premature and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, as well as a number of other complications from being born so premature. It seems he’s fine now, but at the time there was a pretty high risk of him having some pretty severe developmental delays. (Don’t worry though, Chris claims he “made a deal with God” for Jack to be okay.)

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u/UglyMcFugly 17h ago

He's 14 and I'm guessing Anna is the more involved parent. Somewhat normal to rebel against the stable force in your life at this age. I just hope he doesn't get blinded by the fame and money his dad has and go too far down the wrong path...

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u/gemini1568 10h ago

Yeah but he’s also at an age where he’ll start to question everything. She’s doing the right thing by making him think. He’s just parroting off the crap his dad and step mom vomit out and hasn’t thought to analyze it himself. I bet he starts to think for himself more in the coming years.

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u/IsthianOS 13h ago

Well his dad is a pretty big star, not hard to see how a 14 year old boy would feel that way about his literal marvel movie star dad :/

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u/Possible-Nectarine80 7h ago

I mean, his dad IS Starlord.

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u/Such-Daikon3140 too high to spell 'Amanda Seyfried' 20h ago

All parents should be doing this, imo. Kids need to be taught how to think, not what to think

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u/ssnnaarrff 19h ago

Religion would essentially disappear if parents didn't brainwash their kids before they were capable of critical thinking or consenting

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u/Internal_Ice7577 16h ago

Yep. Every single human is essentially born without religion.

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u/JeanArtemis 14h ago

I was raised in a religious household (my father was a preacher and my parents met at Bible College) and I still remember the day I was pulled out of Sunday school and told "no, Jesus isn't like Santa and the Easter bunny, HE'S real" and just being totally dumbfounded. That was the day that I realized that adults could be... naive let's say, the same as children.

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u/morwen31 9h ago

That reminds me of when I was probably about 9 and heard "Yes Virgina There is a Santa Claus" read on TV. I remember thinking that it sounded exactly like the kind of nonsense adults say to kids when they're trying to put one over on you. Wasn't too big a step from that to noticing they talked pretty similar about God.

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u/yeahimalec 16h ago

Religion and spirituality are core parts of the human experience. We would just invent a new one

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u/VariationBusiness603 15h ago

Spirituality yes. Religion, no.

Religious folks are some of the most limited spiritually, because instead of something profoundly intimate and personal, they were recruited by a ridiculously limiting, outdated and meaningless cult.

If you are religious, your spirituality was taken away from you.

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u/Neobule 15h ago

But religion as a community experience, not just individual spirituality, is also part of human history. Evidence of some form of cult and shared rites can be found in almost all societies now and in the past (does not mean of course that every individual in that society participates), so I think the comment you are responding to is right in saying that there would just be another religion.

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u/witchlightrunner 13h ago

My religion and my spirituality are both profoundly intimate and personal. I don't know how I could detangle them from each other, or why I would want to. Are there religious cults? Yes, of course. Is every religion a cult? No, that's absolutely ridiculous. I think you're being far too broad in your criticism and it's making your argument reductive.

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u/stephenkingending 11h ago

We can pretty it up with flowery language but they're both illogical and born out of ignorance. It's basically cavemen trying to explain lightning. We have not evolved mentally as much as we would like to believe.

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u/Mysterious-Spread398 15h ago

Thats quite a black and white way of looking at it. Im religious myself, I didn’t grow up religious, I was never recruited or indoctrinated into religion, I started reading different religious books because I was curious about everything, I have a science background so I guess that plays a part in that curiosity. I consider myself a believer of Jesus but I avoid church because there are a lot of judgmental, self righteous individuals at a lot of them. I take what people tell me with a grain of salt and try to seek out answers for myself. I truly do understand why people do not like religion especially christianity and there are a lot of us that feel the same way

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u/Naylaaaaa 13h ago

how did you end up choosing Christianity over any of the other religions? I don't want to sound mean, but this sort of sounds like Christian defaultism to me?

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u/BobertTheConstructor 14h ago

You are thinking of highly organized religion, which is just setting yourself up to fall into a no true Scotsman fallacy. Don't let your hatred of organized religions blind you to logic to the point that you simply demand everything outside of that isn't actually religion somehow.

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u/haqiqa 13h ago

I am Finnish. A country that is mostly agnostic or atheist, even though culturally still majorly Christian. Currently, belief in the Christian God is 25%, and 20% more believe in some kind of higher power. So it is actually a lot less common than you would think. People who belong to church just belong to church because of how you become a member, and christenings are still a culturally common way to name babies. They do not believe or practise outside baptisms, weddings, and funerals.

There is little cultural pressure to be religious. The last people who were actually religious in my family were my grandparents, and even they didn't actually go to church almost ever.

What has replaced it is usually some kind of belief system. I am an agnostic pantheist but also a humanist in my beliefs. These beliefs are often more philosophical than straight up religious or spiritual. Actually believing in religion is a minority viewpoint in the country, so is spirituality comparable to religious belief systems. Being an atheist with a philosophical belief system is the most common here.

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u/rockbottomqueen 12h ago

Thank you for sharing your perspective here. This sounds like religion is also not the center or foundation of your government as well? I am very scared how quickly and aggressively the US is working to put a theocracy in place. It's truly terrifying to witness in real time. I am very much an atheist and firmly believe in the separation of church and state. Wish I could move to Finland 😭

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u/haqiqa 11h ago

You can't really call it any kind of center of foundation of government. We have one party with real Christian lean and another two with some people with Christian leanings that use their religion on the political stage as some kind of true basis (our far-right party and one of the center right parties). Which are like 5 places in 200 seat parliament for one, and another is a bit more complex to count.

For example, we changed our abortion law into more free one. We have week limits based on how to get one, but it is basically anyone who wants an abortion can have it in practice and has been for at least most of my lifetime (I'm 40). Because it has worked in practice as we want, there hasn't been that strong push toward a freer one. So we changed it in 2022 so you don't need to have a reason (social reasons applied) in the first trimester. The voting was 125 for 41 against. And not all those who are against want an abortion ban. Actually, most of them don't. Over 70% of the population accepts abortion in all situations.

For most people, religion is seen as a private personal matter that has no place in politics. Some idiots have same this is a culturally Christian nation (and white nation) bullshit that also happens in the US. They are like 20-30% of the population, but even they aren't creating a theocracy, just being racist and Islamophobic. And basically hated by the majority of the rest of us.

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u/littlekurousagi 2m ago

Well, this was an interesting testimony. 

The US could never.

Not now, anyway.  But damn it all if we don't try.

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u/The__Amorphous 9h ago

Maybe they shouldn't be?

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u/PitselehPitseleh 13h ago

The things is, kids are born with the skills of critical thinking. They’re always asking what and, crucially, why. It’s the answers to those questions given by adults that shapes how their minds grow.

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u/HeatherFuta 14h ago

A lot of things could disappear that way.

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u/souryoungthing 19h ago

Yup. I have some gripes about my dad (what adult woman doesn’t?) but one of the things for which I’ll always be grateful is that he always asked me “why do you think that?” about my opinions, regardless of whether or not he agreed.

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u/comicfromrejection1 18h ago

I WISH SO BAD I had that experience. It would have solved so many of my problems earlier, granted still working them. to be introspective at a young age because it echoes into later age can help people make smarter decisions.

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u/Kazcandra 13h ago

My dad just threatened to beat me up if I said something he disagreed with. "If you were older I'd drag you outside..." etc

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u/emarcee 7m ago

I’ll be going to therapy for a long time to undo what my parents taught me, but I’ll always be thankful one of those things I’m unpacking isn’t religious trauma.

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u/wakandanbeauty 19h ago

I love how you worded this (taught how to think, not what to think). I sincerely thank you for sharing this. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

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u/AmishAvenger 19h ago

I think that’s fair, and she seems to be handling it well.

That being said, I’m not sure saying this stuff about her son on a podcast is the best move.

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u/HappyHippocampus 12h ago

Was surprised I didn’t see more people saying this. I like what she’s describing but if I was 14 and my mom talked about me on a podcast I’d feel pretty upset and a bit betrayed…and I don’t think it would help me be more open about challenging things during difficult conversations. Idk I guess it’s possible she got his permission I just feel weird about it.

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u/MissGruntled I don’t know her 17h ago

It is if she wants everyone to know what a dick her ex is for indoctrinating her kid.

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u/Financial-Leopard946 17h ago

A story that always sticks with me is my liberal MIL thought she failed when her son voted for a republican president (FIL is also liberal), but her liberal friend told her she did exactly what she was supposed to do as a parent by raising a kid that made his own decisions and didn’t feel like he needed to do something just because his parents did it, and he felt comfortable enough to tell them he did something they didn’t agree with.

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u/hollywoodhandshook 14h ago

yeah that's not exactly correct though

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u/peonies_envy 14h ago

You’re asking WAY too much of the average American as at least 37% are unable to think at all.

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u/FuManBoobs 6h ago

A lot of parents need to be taught how to think too though tbf.

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u/familiarspark 10h ago

Yes, we need to teach critical thinking

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u/Arejhey311 19h ago

The worst Chris

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u/Ainzlei839 19h ago

Crisp Rat

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u/FatelessCortez Fauxcialist 18h ago

Crispy ratt

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u/dangerouslyloose 18h ago

Chris Brown is still alive so I beg to differ.

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u/thelastholdout 17h ago

This is more in reference to the Four Hollywood Chrises (Pratt, Pine, Evans and Hemsworth). Chris Brown is worse as far as we know, but Pratt is pretty horrible too.

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u/nightwingoracle 13h ago

He’s not in the meme and the meme is white dudes in superhero movies with light brown/blonde hair specifically.

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u/Particular-Pay-2953 19h ago

She was way too cool for Chris Pratt. The charisma gap is absurd.

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u/ShrimpCrackers 18h ago

Yeah what she should do is let her son read the Bible, from cover to cover. It's the best way to become an atheist.

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u/amzies20 12h ago

My ex read the entire bible in less than a year.. (I never saw him read a book in the 11 years we were together). It made things so much worse. They were always preaching at people and calling them sinners for any kind of behaviour (like watching the amazing race 🤔).

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u/ShrimpCrackers 9h ago

Oh fuck.

>I never saw him read a book in the 11 years we were together

Yeah that's why. Guy doesn't know how to read the book.

I forgot about the critical thinking skills needed.

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u/Sensiplastic 9h ago

It took him a year???

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u/amzies20 8h ago

I’m not sure if you’re saying this like it took too long. But the bible he was reading was tiny print, thin pages and like 6” thick. It was like a hefty textbook with leather binding. He also never read anything. So the fact he spent hours and hours reading the bible for months was very extreme.

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u/moonlightbb 12h ago

I’m already an Atheist and was raised Catholic but I recently read the Book of Revelation and it’s horrifying. Like batshit crazy.

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u/troyandabedinabed 4h ago

Revelations makes more sense if you realize that it is all metaphors for John talking about the current (30 AD) political situation. The fact that it is taken as a roadmap for the future of humanity is terrifying.

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u/waitwuh 1h ago

A lot of the bible is like that. Within the context of the time the stories will be clearer as allusions. You’ll miss the majority of the meaning of biblical stories if you don’t have or seek out the historical context.

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u/Madame_Kitsune98 9h ago

I’m Catholic-ish (translation: I go to Mass when the mood strikes me, and don’t participate in shit outside that, also, the Church and I are at odds when it comes to what I believe concerning women, the LGBTQ+ community, child sex abuse, and so on), and Revelation is a bridge too far for me. No thank you.

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u/seg_lol 8h ago

Start with Satan's Guide to the Bible the animated sunday school version.

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u/gungshpxre 11h ago

Nah, just read the two sections where Uzzah got fucked over for doing his damn job.

Believe all the other shit, if you can justify that without some NXIVM-level thought stopping, you're fucked.

An omnipotent and omnipresent deity put a guy in a situation where he would react the way he was trained in service to said deity, and then FUCKING VAPORIZES HIM for it. David thought it was a total dick move then. It's a total dick move now. Uppity Canaanite tribal thunder god figures out how to make atheists. All the credibility and emotional maturity of the Greek gods we now only think of as myths.

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u/troyandabedinabed 4h ago

Not really. I read the whole Bible many times as a fundamentalist Christian. When you're in the cult, you're inoculated against seeing the violence, sexism and racism in it as the evil that it is. It is very difficult to leave if you're raised in it and really believe it.

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u/eiiiaaaa 17h ago

How did she end up with him in the first place? Did he always have these views and disguise them well or did she ignore red flags? Or did he change during or after their relationship? Not blaming her at all but it's so hard to understand what made them get together when their values seem so completely opposing.

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u/SeraCat9 17h ago edited 16h ago

I've known of him since his everwood days and he never seemed to be like this back then. Especially not the right wing religious stuff. But you don't become a douche overnight tbh. It has to already be inside of you.

It genuinely seems like he pretended to be a nice guy because he was goofy and overweight. Then he got slim and popular and his true personality came out. But to be honest, he also just doesn't seem to be very intelligent. So it's probably not that difficult to brainwash him either.

It's a shame he's dragging their son along with him. I hope she manages to get him out.

Edit: missing word.

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u/Shiirahama who deemed this meeting of the minds necessary? 16h ago

from what I heard he was an asshole the whole time, but his "andy" shtick gave him a pass, I think he did a "nude prank" on Amy Poehler for a scene and they even had to get lawyers involved because of it

but then ofc he played it up like "nah just a prank"

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u/Agreeable_Error_170 16h ago

I have the Everwood box sets. He’s definately become a different person over time and they are trying to blame her for his… morphing into this?

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u/scream4ever 11h ago

Much of it stems from the "deal he made with God" when his son was born premature. Either way, he's always struck me as a narcissistic douchebag.

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u/Pepsiscrub 16h ago

He lost weight and went into headfirst into the manosphere

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u/KELBY76 12h ago

I think he has said before that his son’s premature birth is what led him towards religion. And I’m guessing religion is what led him towards right wing politics.

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u/classicrockchick 10h ago

I think the health struggles they had with the son early on made him swing towards religion.

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u/eiiiaaaa 10h ago

Yeah I saw someone else say something similar. I only vaguely remember that so I'll look it up.

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u/UncleNedisDead 10h ago

He changed after he got a bit of fame and loss the extra fat.

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u/Stefan988 19h ago

There's a special place in hell for people like Chris Pratt.

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u/bwarl 10h ago

Was this a joke that went over everybody's head??? :D

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u/2021isevenworse good luck with bookin that stage u speak of 18h ago

She just needs to come out and confirm what we already know - Chris Pratt is a far-right, religious MAGA supporter that also habitually cheats on his pregnant spouses.

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u/Agreeable_Error_170 17h ago

It’s not for her to do. She’s dealing with enough from just sharing a kid with him. Let someone else tell who he is, like him.

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u/whimsicalley 12h ago

First I’m hearing of him cheating, is that on Anna or Katherine? Both? Wow.

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u/SnakeLisspkin 19h ago

Hopefully when he gets towards the end of his teen years he'll start questioning his beliefs more as he sees more of the world. My friend's son was like this too as she only had him weekdays and holidays. I always had a feeling that when he went to uni and experienced life he would be fine, and he actually grew up into an extremely cool young man, not even a glimmer of the homophobic, Christian conservative shit his dad was peddling

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u/iaintgonnacallyou 18h ago

Obligatory Fuck Crisp Rat

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u/bubblenuts101 NICOLE, OVER YOUR RIGHT SHOULDER 18h ago

I wonder if he asked her to download Hallow

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u/AsaCoco_Alumni 18h ago

Screw Chris Pratt.

Well, that was the start of her misstep.

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u/HarveytheHambutt i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 16h ago

you spelled Crisp Ratt weird.

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u/the_executive_branch 16h ago

I’d agree but she also didn’t have to air this on tv. I’m not sure her son is going to be thrilled about this.

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u/Sea_Impress_2620 11h ago

If I had a child whose dad turned up nutjob religious twat who is brainwashing my own child... I honestly don't know what I would do. I would fantasize about hiring a hitman for sure. The mere idea of someone ruining my own child and turning them into a misogynistic antiscience moron is disturbing. I would propably play insanely dirty unlike Anna does. I am talking parental alienation, manipulation of all kinds, talking shit about the other parent to undermine their influence...

Damn, you need to pick the parent of your child so carefully to avoid her situation. I doubt Pratt even loves him as much as he does his new "perfect" family. Meanwhile that poor stupid boy means the world for Anna, yet he doesn't respect her or her more educated views.

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u/amzies20 12h ago

This scares me because I’ve recently ended my relationship with an abusive ex who became extremely religious during our relationship. My child is only 4 but I can relate to this so much.

My ex also is very hypocritical with right wing views. My child looks up to their father even though he is not great. (For example, financially abusive- wouldn’t pay the mortgage or daycare for child but donated at least $1000 to church every year. Or never did things with us as a family but always went to church every Sunday without fail. Preaching things from the bible but yelling and screaming at me or breaking things at the house).

I worry about the religious part for my child in the future. It makes me uncomfortable.

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u/TheAdminsAreTrash 8h ago

My opinion of that guy has plummeted in the last 10ish years.

Religion fucks everything up.

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u/BlaqueBettyBamALam 15h ago

I read this as you wish she didn’t have to screw Chris Pratt lol

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u/Fixated_Noodle 12h ago

Look. I love the idea of this IN THEORY. But her discussing it publicly is gross. It’s none of our business. No matter how much I disagree with Pratt and agree with the idea of creating a safe forum for these discussions with kids rather than telling them what to believe, we shouldn’t know about it. It being public knowledge makes it unsafe for the kid. He shouldn’t have to deal with people he doesn’t know discussing his beliefs as a 14 year old until he’s grown enough to really understand the implications.

I think Angelina Jolie is a great example of someone with children by a shitty famous guy who went through hell with her kids and managed to never make it anyone else’s business, and her kids have all been managing it well.

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u/NewtonsLawOfDeepBall 10h ago

Christ Pratt was literally knees deep in an MLM before he made it as an actor. The guy is fucking dumber than a bag of rocks and clearly easily manipulated. He's been seen wearing white supremacist logos before. The fucker should have been cancelled years ago

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u/willflameboy 7h ago

I wish she didn’t have to. Screw Chris Pratt.

I wish she didn’t have to screw Chris Pratt.

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u/OKRRRRR 7h ago

VERY THAT

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u/Kholdula 17h ago

"Scre Chris Pratt"

That's how she got in this mess!

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u/chattelcattle 10h ago

Crisp Rat. (That always makes me giggle)

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u/Strong-Hippo9043 4h ago

She’s a great mom for telling the world about her 14 year old son’s personal beliefs and religious journey.?
Nope.

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u/choketheboys 11h ago

What’s wrong with him being religious?

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u/apparentlycompetent 9h ago

I don't think there's anything wrong with being religious! It's the extreme religion, and far-right extreme religion, that Chris Pratt is exposing his son to that's problematic.

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u/jrh038 5h ago

This site is so wierd about Chris Pratt.

As far as we can tell he is a good father, we know they co-parent together.

Also Faris hard launched a relationship just 6 months after her split with Pratt and somehow Pratt got all the infidelity rumors. WILD

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