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When You Start Getting Into Your Politics It's Like You Have To Be Vulnerable And You Have To Be Sort Of Sensitive. Because If It's Always Like Straight Aggression All The Time, There Becomes No Empathy For The Stance That You're Taking. You're Not Telling People To Think, You're Telling Them What To Think. And Also You Have To Be Honest With Yourself On That, Too.

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When You Start Getting Into Your Politics It's Like You Have To Be Vulnerable And You Have To Be Sort Of Sensitive. Because If It's Always Like Straight Aggression All The Time, There Becomes No Empathy For The Stance That You're Taking. You're Not Telling People To Think, You're Telling Them What To Think. And Also You Have To Be Honest With Yourself On That, Too.

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