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27 Jul, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I can't help thinking that if "The Exorcist" happened today, the demon Pazuzu would spend less time spitting pea soup vomit and more time setting up a TikTok account.
The demon's every foul utterance to the possessed girl's mother and the exorcists would be followed by it triumphantly holding up its iPad to show how many likes and upvotes it got.
Father Karras: The power of Christ compels you!

Demon: (shrugs) Hey, that thing I said about what your mom is doing in Hell got 32,000 likes already. You should see the emojis people are sending me!
In the new finale, Father Karras heroically offers himself to the demon, who laughs and says it already got 50,000 offers from people online and some of them are major influencers, so why would it bother with some burnout priest? It says it has places to go and calls an Uber.
But in the shock twist ending, the possessed girl is tackled by a swarm of Mask Karens as the demon saunters confidently down the famous steps. Thrust into quarantine, it fumes in bitter outrage before returning to Hell because "at least things make sense down there." /end

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The correct term for a system where capital is privately owned, but controlled by the State, is fascism.
So the Left is telling us: Surprise! After hundreds of years, we've just discovered the U.S. Constitution offers no protection whatsoever against fascist tyranny! As long as the State uses politically-controlled corporations as its agents, your silly little "rights" mean nothing!
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