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Jan Dutkiewicz

@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pratt Institute Contributing Editor at The New Republic Feed the People! (Basic Books 2026) www.jandutkiewicz.com

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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very interesting. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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RFK Jr.’s Push to Revamp American Food Runs Into White House Resistance
Concerns about whether Kennedy’s ideas on food are even feasible have prompted clashes within the administration, casting uncertainty over a once-potent political agenda.
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Jamie Woodhouse @jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wish this wasn't still relevant, 4 years later, but it is... newrepublic.com/article/1656... Thanks @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @jansmolenski.bsky.social.
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The American Pundits Who Can’t Resist “Westsplaining” Ukraine
John Mearsheimer and other foreign policy figures are treating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine like a game of Risk.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If I was putting on a Climate Week food event about good farming practices, I personally would opt to not have it cosponsored by a company that was found to raise animals in unspeakably cruel conditions. But maybe that's just me.
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Jakub Matraszek @matraszek.dev · 20/09/2026
Byłem na konferencji CARE i słuchałem co tam mądrego mówił ten @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
eat food*. not too much. mostly plants. *including ultra-processed food
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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
From @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social “Claims about whose vision of politics better aligns with religious texts are fair game, but discussions of the environmental impact of food production & animal ethics are off the table…Thomas Paine imagined the opposite” 250 years ago newrepublic.com/article/2080...
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What the James Talarico Vegan Story Reveals About U.S. Politics
Centuries ago, Thomas Paine envisioned a country free of arbitrary rule—from both monarchy and religion. Today, religious and secular dogma still curtail what can be said on the campaign trail.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/09/2026
Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.
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Matthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another great perspective from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social. "without factory farms there would be far less meat and it would be far more expensive...if the MAHA movement were remotely coherent, it would push for this less-but-better meat vision" newrepublic.com/article/2141...
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MAHA’s Meat Obsession Exposes the Movement’s Delusions
Robert F Kennedy Jr. and his acolytes say we should eat more meat, but that would only worsen the very problems Make America Healthy Again claims it is trying to solve.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wrote about the contradiction at the heart of MAHA’s meat fixation: eating more of it will only exacerbate the very problems that the movement purportedly wants to solve. newrepublic.com/article/2141...
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MAHA’s Meat Obsession Exposes the Movement’s Delusions
Robert F Kennedy Jr. and his acolytes say we should eat more meat, but that would only worsen the very problems Make America Healthy Again claims it is trying to solve.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
All of the madness of modern diet culture in one article. People use a drug to reduce cravings and fear ultra-processed food, so they deny themselves pleasure, but they want more protein so they reach to isolates like whey, which is ultra-processed. www.theguardian.com/food/ng-inte...
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‘It exists only for pleasure’: does ice-cream have a future in the age of wellness fads and weight-loss drugs?
As fitness-conscious consumers turn away from processed foods, the industry is scrambling for new ideas, including nutrient-rich lollies and protein-packed tubs. Will they take the fun out of this sum...
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A tale of two nutritional schema: one right and one wrong. These biscuits are perfectly healthy. They get an A on Nutri-Score which - while imperfect - captures the nutritional quality of individual foods. Under Nova, they would be "ultra-processed" because of one emulsifier.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
While the decline of alt milk is grossly overstated, this is yet another case of the "ultra-processing" discourse potentially leading consumers to less sustainable and potentially even less healthy food choices. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Americans Are Rethinking Their Love Affair With Plant Milks
Alternative milks entered the mainstream in force in the 2010s. Now customer preferences are shifting again.
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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
On today's episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social about Feed the People (2026, @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social, with Gabriel Rosenberg). We discuss food systems, UPFs, animal ag, and more. Available below or in usual podcast places! knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-252-...
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In Feed the People! @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I make a similar point: there is a vast gulf between food availability (is there food?) and food access (are there resources to get food?) and utilization (is food made nutritious?). The food desert idea - especially applied to cities - conflates these.
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djbelieve @djbelieve.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If I recall correctly, @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social argue in their excellent book ‘Feed the People’ that it’s the price of food that’s the problem and we’re better off giving food-insecure folks more money or free food (or both).
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Feed the People!
Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all. “This book ...
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Feed the People Thought™️ is yet again proven correct. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Good diet matters more than how processed food is, study suggests
Health of participants in long-term study depended on nutritional quality of what they ate rather than whether foods were ultra-processed or not
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
New paper showing empirically that a variety of motivations, characteristics, and contexts are correlated with the adoption of veganism. These are not strictly left/progressive or otherwise siloed. This is exactly what Jonathan and I argued conceptually in our Food Ethics paper.
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re-read.bsky.social @re-read.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A good one to remember.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Crucial reporting from @zdboren.bsky.social. "Newly revealed documents from inside the most powerful farming lobby in Europe show how it delayed, gutted and overturned some of the most sweeping farming reforms in EU history..." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Soccer is corrupt as hell, but is there a more fascist-adjacent sport than brazilian jiu-jitsu? (Here's Ralph Gracie giving Bolsonaro Jr. - who has never trained - a black belt.)
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Andrea Learned | Name & Fame host Ⓥ 🚲 @andrealearned.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
INSIGHT on AI and the loss of curiosity: “Our technology is increasingly treating the territory between the query and the answer as dead space to be eliminated, when that territory is where most of the learning actually happens.” @neuranne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...
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Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
best album of the millennium thus far steroidband.bandcamp.com/album/chainm...
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CHAINMAIL COMMANDOS, by STERÖID
11 track album
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Matthew Hayek @matthewhayek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
New paper alert! We analyzed the carbon footprint of leather and found that cattle leather GHG emissions are *14 times greater* than non-animal alternatives. 🧵 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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The Carbon Footprint of Leather: A Comprehensive Reassessment Using Global Livestock Data and Meta-Analysis
Product designers and manufacturers lack robust and regionally representative information on the greenhouse gas (GHG) or “carbon” footprints of leather textiles. This study presents a meta-analysis of...
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Nolan is growing mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 @ndmonaghan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Eccentrics like me who read books about pawpaws, grow mushrooms, or take Saturday tramps around elderberry orchards do not possess morally superior eating habits by virtue of our preferred food-centric pastimes, and we should not demand people sink even more time into their nourishment
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Is the Industrial Food System Actually Good?
A review of Feed the People by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg
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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The academic analysis of food has been well and truly captured by an ultra-processing tunnel vision. One of the world's largest food companies with the biggest environmental footprint and track record of corruption is JBS, which mostly makes "unprocessed food." But no, UPFs bad. What are we doing?
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
perfect streamable.com/z7onyd
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How have I never heard this before? Poznań! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_zA...
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Deszcz - s/t LP FULL ALBUM (2017 - Crust Punk / Hardcore)
YouTube video by Gore Grinder
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
me too, dawg. me too. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Honored to be interviewed by La Repubblica about Feed the People! "Feed the People! ... invita al realismo e al godimento ritrovato." d.repubblica.it/culture/inte...
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Cibo industriale sotto accusa. Ma un libro lo riabilita: “E’ l’unica soluzione”
L’imputato principale di questa storia è il cibo industriale. Ma se fosse innocente? C’è chi promuove “l’edonismo democratico”. Intervista a Jan Dutkiewicz, l’…
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I talked top the folks over at Spectrum News about the cultural politics of the Talarico vegan discourse. TLDR: It has nothing to do with veganism qua veganism and everything to do with creating wedge issues. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...
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Texas GOP has beef with James Talarico’s diet
Texas Republicans cast Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, as a vegan — a claim that is not true.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Surprise surprise! It is WHAT is processed and not HOW or HOW MUCH it is processed that matters for health. This is EXACTLY the argument that Gabriel Rosenberg and I made in Feed the People! using many of these same studies. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ultraprocessed foods and obesity: Interpreting the evidence
What do randomized controlled trials really tell us about the effects of ultraprocessed foods?
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Nova / "ultra-processing" schema is not fit for purpose for adjudicating the healthfulness or sustainability of foods.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Very good paper. As I wrote in Feed the People!, the Nova/UPF taxonomy is not fit for purpose as the basis for food policy. "Effective food policy should prioritize nutritional quality, access, and equity rather than process-based taxonomy." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is the way. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Feeding the future of France: Rollout of €1 meals an attempt to help struggling students
It’s a thumbs up from the country’s 3 million students, who can now buy cheap meals up to twice a day
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Went on the Human Progress podcast to talk Feed the People! Have a listen. humanprogress.org/jan-dutkiewi...
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Jan Dutkiewicz: The System That Feeds Us
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
industrial food systems work best when well regulated. not a good look for carney. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
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Althia Raj: Mark Carney’s pesticide policy could put the economy ahead of your health
Prime Minister Mark Carney is quietly bringing-in reforms that will make it more difficult for the government to ensure that the air you breathe, the water you drink and the
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I regret to inform you that the absolute worst people in food academia have teamed up to write a truly cynical screed against meat reduction.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"... low-quality evidence dominates the discussion around the climate benefits of alternative grazing strategies, underscoring a critical need for stronger evidence before asserting climate change mitigation benefits from alternative grazing practices." biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Curious Reading Club @readcurious.xyz · 03/05/2026
Our book of the month for May is “Feed the People!” by Gabriel N Rosenberg and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social — a provocative argument in favor of mass food production and the pleasures of “democratic hedonism” Read more: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur025-ann...
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Get your teeth into May’s book of the month
“Feed the People!” by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Dr Iain Staffell @iain-staffell.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
There is no single “correct” path to decarbonise. There are six trillion. Our new paper in Science puts 36 climate solutions into one common unit, so you can build your own pathways. Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie... App: climatewedges.com What would your pathway look like?
My global decarbonisation pathway, built on www.climatewedges.com

It deploys 20 wedges to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.An infographic showing the 36 strategies that can deliver at least a wedge of mitigation.  It explains the scale of deployment each one needs, across the electricity, industry, buildings, transport, and land use sectors.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The SOB Act made it through the farm bill. What a disaster.
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
based billie eilish, i guess?
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
On the failings on prepper culture and the importance of community in an increasingly calamitous age. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...
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Opinion | The Prepper Delusion
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Gabriel Rosenberg and I talked to Kevin and Roger on Mountain Money on KPCW about Feed the People! This is probably the interview about the book where we've gone the most into the details. It was a lot of fun. Have a listen. www.kpcw.org/show/mountai...
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Mountain Money | April 27, 2026
Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg talk about their new book, “Feed the People: Why Industrial Food is Good for You and How to Make it Better," which takes a look at the complex American food indust...
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We need binding regulation and not corporate self-regulation, exhibit #1,000,000. 98% of meat and dairy company climate and environmental promises are bullshit. www.newscientist.com/article/2523...
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98 per cent of meat and dairy sustainability pledges are greenwashing
The food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a review concludes that many of the pledges are not backed up by evidence
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Gabriel and I went into the belly of the foodie beast: Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio podcast. We talked Feed the People, food processing, and school lunches. I'd like to think we made a compelling case and even found some common ground. Have a listen. www.177milkstreet.com/radio/stop-h...
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Stop Hating Processed Foods? The Case for Big Ag | Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street | Recipes, TV and Cooking Tips
This week, a food fight: authors Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg present their case for…embracing McDonalds and Burger King?
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Fischer said the bast part of winning in chess was when you break your opponent's ego. But sometimes the best part is trolling.
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