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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A National Experiment in Refugee Resettlement</strong> - The Biden Administration’s Welcome Corps will allow Americans to sponsor newcomers to their home towns—and will test how exposure to refugees changes people’s lives. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-national-experiment-in-refugee-resettlement">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Is a Woman Ever Going to Win the White House?</strong> - Trump’s performative macho is scaring voters in both parties away from women candidates. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/is-a-woman-ever-going-to-win-the-white-house">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bernie Sanders’s New Campaign: Taking On Big Pharma and Starbucks</strong> - As the new chair of a powerful Senate committee, the reënergized progressive leader is once again targeting the corporate plutocracy. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/bernie-sanderss-new-campaign-taking-on-big-pharma-and-starbucks">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What’s Behind the Chinese Spy Balloon</strong> - President Xi Jinping has modernized and expanded his military, but the balloon incident may indicate the challenges he faces in consolidating its power. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/whats-behind-the-chinese-spy-balloon">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Year of the War in Ukraine</strong> - The historian Stephen Kotkin and the Ukrainian journalist Sevgil Musaieva on a year of disaster, and the hopes for an end. Plus, Angela Bassett on playing the queen of Wakanda. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/a-year-of-the-war-in-ukraine">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>How (and why) to stop holding a grudge</strong> -
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You can minimize the pain of a grudge, even if you’re not ready to forgive.
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There’s something deliciously perverse about holding a grudge. Sitting atop your high horse, you cast judgment on the person who has wronged you, wondering how someone could commit such a heinous act. Weeks, months, and even years can pass, and all the while you hold on to your little treasures of spite. Indeed, <a href="https://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=9811">C. Ward Struthers</a>, a professor at York University who studies forgiveness, vengeance, and grudges, suspects grudges are meant to be remembered since they function as self-protection. “When I’m faced with that person again, or another situation like that, [the grudge] can be re-invoked and I can use it to protect myself,” he says.
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Struthers defines a grudge as a sustained feeling of hurt and anger that can dissipate over time but can be reignited when needed. Harboring negative feelings toward someone and holding a grudge are similar experiences, Struthers says, but not identical. When grudges form, your perception of the transgressor has changed and you see them as an inherently bad person with harmful intentions. Feeling slighted by a friend because they got you a cheap birthday present doesn’t evoke the same emotion as the disdain felt for a coworker who constantly undermines you in meetings.
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Grudges exist on a spectrum, says <a href="https://edpsych.education.wisc.edu/staff/enright-robert/">Robert Enright</a>, a professor in the department of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a founding board member of the International Forgiveness Institute. Some grievances don’t impact your daily life, but you remember them nonetheless. These surface-level grudges are easier to relinquish, Enright says. Others take root in the soul and can grow into hatred.
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Because grudges have the ability to shield you from future harm, Struthers believes once a grudge is set, it’s yours for life. (He does admit the research is scant in this area.) Enright believes, through <a href="https://www.vox.com/22983102/forgiveness">forgiveness</a>, even the most profound resentments can be released. Though feelings of bitterness may be deep-seated, it’s not exactly in your best interest to walk around brimming with rancor. Even if you’re not ready to forgive, understanding the process of how grudges are formed can help relinquish some of the power they hold over your life.
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Holding a grudge is an ongoing cycle
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The experience of grievance isn’t linear, but cyclical. After a <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fqup0000205">series of interviews with grudge-holders</a>, social psychologist <a href="http://evanmonsjou.com/">Elizabeth van Monsjou</a>, who was working in Struthers’s lab at the time, discovered common themes among the aggrieved. The journey of disdain, van Monsjou found, begins with wrongdoing — either perceived wrongdoing or an event where a person knowingly harms another. The person on the receiving end of the transgression begins to experience feelings of inadequacy — “How could someone do this to me?” — which leads to validation-seeking; the scorned person recounts the story to others who are, ideally, just as aghast. If the victim is unable to let go, ruminates over the event, and feels justified in their resentment, a grudge can form. “They have these thoughts and emotions, this negativity about the person who did them wrong, negativity about themselves, questioning lots of different things around this event,” van Monsjou says. “Then a breaking point leads to a grudge.”
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Over time, the white-hot intensity of spite dissipates and the grudge doesn’t occupy so much mental space. This is, according to van Monsjou, the acceptance phase: “accepting that you’re holding a grudge,” she says. However, you might hear a song, say, reminding you of an unfaithful partner, and find yourself deep in the trenches of resentment once more. “That spurs the cycle again,” van Monsjou says, “where you move into that unmet need for validation, you try to seek validation, and then so on and so on until the next trigger.”
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If you’re not ready (or willing) to forgive
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Letting go of a grudge is not the same experience as forgiveness. Struthers sees forgiveness as a decision you make to replace a negative judgment of a person or situation with a positive feeling. By contrast, moving on from a grudge might conjure indifference instead of positivity; you don’t need to feel warm and fuzzy toward a person who wronged you to avoid letting negative feelings control your life. “In order to actually fully forgive someone, you can’t just let go and not care,” says Katina Bajaj, a co-founder and the chief well-being officer at <a href="https://www.daydreamerspace.com/">Daydreamers</a>, a mental health and creativity platform. “You have to actually feel positively toward that situation.”
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To get to a point of nonchalance, you need more context about the wrongdoing — and the person who committed it. In the aftermath of a hurtful event, you might feel raw, confused as to why someone would mistreat you. While difficult, van Monsjou recommends <a href="https://psychologycompass.com/blog/point-of-view/">stepping out of your own point of view</a> and attempting to consider what motivated the other person. What do you think the other person thought about your actions? How did the wrongdoing affect their emotions? Try not to judge the other person for their behavior, van Monsjou says, which can help minimize feelings of righteous indignation. “If we do take the time to take on the perspective of the person who harmed us,” she says, “then it’s less about judging that person and more understanding what might have motivated or what might have contributed to the wrongdoing in that case.”
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It’s also possible the transgressor didn’t intentionally hurt you, Enright says. Maybe their child was sick and they forgot about a charity event you organized — something that was meaningful to you but, at the moment, not as significant to them. “As you’re putting a context to it,” Enright says, “you’ll begin to see maybe this wasn’t such a big deal and I can move past, I can move on.”
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The process of perspective-taking adds nuance to black-and-white thinking — thought patterns that reinforce the idea of inherent badness a person possesses to have wronged you. “If you only see things as all good or all bad, you’re going to be mentally inflexible,” Bajaj says. “But if you’re open and adaptable, and even curious, you’re going to be able to hold a bunch of different perspectives.”
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Even if your resentment stems from an incident long in the past — say, harboring ill will toward a bully from high school — consider how the person may have matured and evolved throughout their life. This thought experiment doesn’t forgive their words or actions, but it allows you to view them as someone capable of growth. “With grudges, it can be really easy to get into that fixed mindset of ‘this is just who people are,’” says licensed clinical psychologist <a href="https://www.drlaurencook.com/">Lauren Cook</a>. “Holding a hope that they have made better decisions and treated people better, that might help us get a little better sleep at night.”
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To release the deepest grudges, you need to forgive
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You may reach a point where the grudge has become a familiar bedfellow, but an emotion without a purpose: a motivation that no longer serves you. Releasing a grudge might mean letting go of the person who caused it, Cook says, by <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23191524/is-this-friendship-over-friend-breakup">ending a relationship with a friend</a> who betrayed your confidence, for example. “Sometimes we hold the grudge as a way to delay a grieving process,” Cook says, “because it really hurts to lose someone.” Accepting that a relationship has run its course can help lessen a grudge’s impact.
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However, the strongest antidote against grudge-holding, Enright says, is forgiveness. <a href="https://www.vox.com/22967752/how-to-forgive-someone-who-isnt-sorry-wont-apologize">Forgiveness is a solitary and conscious process</a>, and the person who hurt you doesn’t necessarily need to apologize or take responsibility. To truly forgive someone, you have to decide to do some emotional work, like digging deep into the psyche of the person who hurt you. “What kind of wounds does this person have to have wounded you?” Enright says. Then, Enright says, consider your shared humanity: You and the person who wronged you are both unique human beings with meaningful lives.
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This process may take time and patience; to find commonality and empathy for someone you perceive as an aggressor or manipulator is no small feat.
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“That,” Enright says, “is when you actually begin to conquer the grudge that could conquer you.”
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/even-better"><em>Even Better</em></a><em> is here to offer deeply sourced, actionable advice for helping you live a better life. Do you have a question on money and work; friends, family, and community; or personal growth and health? Send us your question by filling out this </em><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiStGSlsWDBmglim7Dh1Y9Hy386rkeKGpfwF6BCjmgnZdqfQ/viewform"><em>form</em></a><em>. We might turn it into a story.</em>
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<li><strong>A juicy new legal filing reveals who really controls Fox News</strong> -
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a conservative political event on March 29, 2019, in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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As Trump spread his stolen election lies, Fox was terrified of alienating its own audience, emails and texts show.
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Who really runs Fox News?
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Some liberals have a mental model in which the network lies to and misleads its audience, propagandizing them to support Republicans and the right. But an ongoing defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company Dominion against Fox News tells a more complex story — one in which the network’s key players feel compelled to supply the conspiratorial content the audience is demanding.
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A <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in-dominion-fox-news-case/dca5e3880422426f/full.pdf">new filing by Dominion’s attorneys released Thursday</a> cited a trove of Fox emails and texts they had obtained in the discovery phase of the lawsuit, as well as testimony from top executives and hosts, to lay out a narrative about what happened in the tense weeks after Election Day 2020, when then-President Donald Trump was spreading lies about the election.
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As they discussed coverage of Trump’s falsehoods, Fox’s top executives and primetime personalities were explicitly terrified of alienating pro-Trump viewers, panicked about losing the “trust” of the audience, and anxious about competition from the further right and more conspiratorial Newsmax.
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Almost everyone at the network, it seems, understood Trump’s allegations about a stolen election, and particularly his attorney Sidney Powell’s wacky tales of malfeasance from Dominion, were nonsense.
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But an intense culture of what one might call “political correctness” took hold — in which challenging Trump and Powell’s claims could only happen with the utmost care and sensitivity, for fear of offending the tender feelings of Fox viewers.
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More broadly, in understanding how lies and conspiracies spread on the right, it’s important to reckon not just with the suppliers of this coverage, but also the demand. There’s an intense desire for it among viewers that organizations like Fox calculate they have to satisfy in some way. And if Fox doesn’t provide it, those audiences will just seek it out elsewhere.
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The terror of losing audience trust — and competition from Newsmax
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The way Dominion’s attorneys tell the story, the problem really started when, late on election night, Fox News’s decision desk called the state of Arizona for Joe Biden — and no other networks joined them.
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The Fox call was consequential, seriously undercutting Trump’s hope of portraying the election outcome as genuinely in question. It also was, probably, premature. The consensus among other decision desks and election wonks was that Fox called the state too quickly, considering how much of the vote remained uncounted and where and whom those uncounted votes were coming from. Other outlets left Arizona uncalled <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/biden-wins-arizona/index.html">for more than a week</a> as counting continued, and Biden’s lead shrank there. Biden eventually won the state by a mere <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-arizona.html">0.3 percent</a> margin.
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But the Fox personalities’ real concern was not so much with the facts or technical details of election wonkery as with the optics. In getting out on a limb and calling Arizona for Biden when no one else was doing so, it appeared to Fox’s pro-Trump viewers like the network was shivving Trump.
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“We worked really hard to build what we have. Those fuckers [at the decision desk]<strong> </strong>are destroying our credibility. It enrages me,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson wrote to his producer on November 5. He went on to say that what Trump is good at is “destroying things,” adding, “He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”
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On November 7, Carlson again wrote to his producer when Fox called Biden as the winner nationally (this time, alongside the other major networks). “Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience? We’re playing with fire, for real,” he wrote.
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The fear of alienating the audience was particularly acute because another conservative cable network with a more conspiratorial bent, Newsmax, was covering Trump’s stolen election claims far more uncritically. “An alternative like newsmax could be devastating to us,” Carlson continued.
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Fox News anchor Dana Perino wrote to a Republican strategist about “this RAGING issue about fox losing tons of viewers and many watching — get this — newsmax! Our viewers are so mad about the election calls…” And Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott told another executive that the political team did not understand “the impact to the brand and the arrogance in calling AZ.”
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Fox Corporation chair Rupert Murdoch later emailed Scott that Newsmax “should be watched, if skeptically … We don’t want to antagonize Trump further, but [Rudy] Giuliani [should be] taken with a large grain of salt.” He added, ominously, “Everything at stake here.”
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Scott also exchanged texts with Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert’s son and the Fox Corporation’s CEO:
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Scott: “It’s a question of trust — the AZ [call] was damaging but we will highlight our stars and plant flags letting the viewers know we hear them and respect them”
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Murdoch: “Yes. But needs constant rebuilding without any missteps”
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Scott: “Yes today is day one and it’s a process.”
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So as Trump pressed forward with his stolen election lies and his attempt to overturn Biden’s win, Fox made it an immensely important, existential priority to regain the trust of pro-Trump viewers. Fox News president and editor Jay Wallace wrote to Scott that he was “trying to get everyone to comprehend we are on war footing.”
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When some at Fox then deigned to fact-check Trump and his allies’ false claims, top talent and executives deemed this “disrespect”
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As Trump continued to dispute the election results, and as he and allies like Powell and Giuliani spread false and increasingly bizarre claims about election fraud, a pattern unfolded.<strong> </strong>
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First, a Fox anchor or reporter would attempt to fact-check these claims and find them wanting. Then, they’d quickly face furious blowback from executives or the primetime hosts, who viewed these attempts to stay grounded in factual reality as a threat to the “brand” and a sign of “disrespect” to their viewers.
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Dominion’s filing lists several examples of this:
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<strong>Jacqui Heinrich</strong>: On November 12, Trump tweeted that coverage from two Fox hosts, Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs, confirmed his claims about votes being “stolen.” Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich tweeted in response that this was “not what top election infrastructure officials said,” citing their claims that there was no evidence any votes were changed or compromised.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/48nndqjEwccBenKeZYNSuOkUZhg=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24440327/Screen_Shot_2023_02_17_at_11.11.31_AM.png"/> <cite><a class="ql-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201113040813/https://twitter.com/RealScottSharp/status/1327100806970171392" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a></cite>
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Carlson sent Heinrich’s tweet to fellow primetime hosts Hannity and Laura Ingraham, writing: “Please get her fired. Seriously… what the fuck? I’m actually shocked… It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.”
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Carlson and Hannity both complained to top executives, and Scott, the company CEO, later wrote: “She [Heinrich] has serious nerve doing this and if this gets picked up, viewers are going to be further disgusted.” Heinrich then deleted the tweet.
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Some of the outrage here may have been because Trump had praised claims from Fox opinion hosts, and Heinrich appeared to be rebutting them. But the concerns were also framed around how viewers would respond and how the company would be hurt.
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<strong>Neil Cavuto</strong>: On November 9, Cavuto, an anchor, cut away from a White House press conference, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/09/fox-news-kayleigh-mcenany-cut-away-fraud/">saying</a> press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was making an “explosive charge” of election fraud, but that “unless she has more details to back that up, I can’t in good countenance continue to show you this.”
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The “brand team,” led by top executives at Fox News’s parent company, the Fox Corporation, took notice, warning top corporate leadership that Cavuto’s comments posed a “Brand Threat.” Hannity also complained about Cavuto in a text to Carlson and Ingraham.
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<strong>Dana Perino and Kristin Fisher</strong>: On November 19, after Fox aired a press conference where Giuliani and Powell made wild allegations about Dominion, anchor Dana Perino <a href="https://twitter.com/danaperino/status/1329575214330437636">observed</a> on-air that the voting company might sue Powell, and White House correspondent Kristin Fisher <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1329509333458055168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1329509333458055168%7Ctwgr%5Ec461d84605f333dc9be9b94d60fbb803f2713e0f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fnews%2Ffox-news-reporter-blasts-giuliani-over-voter-fraud-claims-light-on-facts-and-simply-not-true">tried</a> to fact-check the claims, calling many of them “simply not true.”
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Fox News’s <a href="https://twitter.com/KristinFisher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="KristinFisher">@KristinFisher</span></a> responds to <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="RudyGiuliani">@RudyGiuliani</span></a>’s voter fraud press conference: <br/><br/>“That was certainly a colorful news conference from Rudy Giuliani, but it was light on facts. <br/><br/>So much of what he said was simply not true or has already been thrown out in court.” <a href="https://t.co/Lp33n4QJu5">pic.twitter.com/Lp33n4QJu5</a>
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— Washington Examiner (<span class="citation" data-cites="dcexaminer">@dcexaminer</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1329509333458055168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2020</a>
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After that, per testimony, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott was “screaming about Dana’s show and their reaction to the Rudy presser.” Scott wrote in an email that the “crazies” were “looking for and blowing up all appearances of disrespect to the audience,” and separately wrote, “We can fix this but we cannot smirk at our viewers any longer.”
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Fisher, meanwhile, testified that her boss told her “higher-ups at Fox News were unhappy” with her fact-checking, saying that she “needed to do a better job of … — this is a quote — ‘respecting our audience.’” She complained in texts that she was being “punished for doing my job.”
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Tucker Carlson’s game
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The full filing tells an interesting story about Carlson, who appeared to be playing a complicated game: reassuring the Fox audience that the network was still on Trump’s side, while trying to walk back the most unhinged and wild fraud claims.
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Carlson was irate over the call of Arizona for Biden, furious over Heinrich’s fact-check of Trump, and very worried about losing viewers’ trust. But he also became increasingly concerned about indulging voter fraud conspiracy theories, which he knew full well were nonsensical.
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After Powell appeared on his colleague Maria Bartiromo’s show on November 8 and made false claims of Dominion using voting machine software to switch votes, Carlson privately texted, “The software shit is absurd… Half our viewers have seen the Maria clip.”
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Then, on November 10, a producer told Carlson that many “viewers were upset tonight that we didn’t cover election fraud,” which is “all our viewers care about right now.” Carlson responded that it was indeed a “mistake” not to cover it, and added, “I just hate this shit.”
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Carlson’s producer Justin Wells texted a fellow producer: “We’re threading a needle that has to be thread because of the dumb fucks at Fox on Election Day. We can’t make people think we’ve turned against Trump. Yet also call out the bullshit. You and I see through it. But we have to reassure some in the audience.”
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Meanwhile, Carlson became increasingly frustrated with Powell. Per the filing, he privately told her on November 17: “You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software. I hope you will prove that very soon. You’ve convinced them that Trump will win. If you don’t have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it’s a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying.” He also texted Ingraham the next day that Powell was “lying” and that he’d “caught her.”
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On November 19, then, Carlson decided to take Powell’s claims on air, in a monologue that tried to be respectful to Trump voters’ suspicions, criticized the mainstream media, and stressed that he really tried to take Powell’s accusations seriously — but <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-rudy-giuliani-sidney-powell-election-fraud">that she simply has no evidence</a>:
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But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of polite requests. When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her. When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they also told us Powell had never given them any evidence to prove anything she claimed at the press conference.
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Powell did say that electronic voting is dangerous, and she’s right, but she never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another. Not one.
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There was, again, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/politics/Tucker-Carlson-trump.html">viewer backlash</a> and discussion at the top levels of Fox’s corporate hierarchy — but the details of this discussion are redacted in the legal filing. A top Fox Corporate executive, Raj Shah, did text a Carlson producer some support: “shit is so crazy right now. so many people openly denying the obvious that Powell is clearly full of it.”
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Finally, on November 22, Trump distanced himself from Powell’s claims and said she did not represent his campaign. Carlson seemed to claim credit for this, texting Ingraham: “It totally wrecked my weekend. Wow… I had to try to make the WH disavow her, which they obviously should have done long before.” He also texted his producer, Wells: “We won the battle with Powell. Thank god.”
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</p>
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<h3 id="Fyjpm4">
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How Fox’s influence really works
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All this reminded me of what happened when Fox initially tried to take down presidential candidate Donald Trump <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/9/23/9352273/party-decides-trump-sanders">in the summer of 2015</a>. Fox’s debate hosts tore into Trump with hard-hitting questions, but viewers who loved Trump expressed their outrage, and the network adjusted to take a less anti-Trump line, eventually outright championing him.
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The idea that Fox tells its viewers what to think about everything, and, like lemmings, they blindly go along with it is simply wrong. Like any media organization reliant on an audience, it is in some ways captive to its viewers. It is trying to serve them — and it does so by putting out coverage they think its viewers will like and find entertaining. But when the audience they’re seeking — hardcore pro-Trump conservatives — becomes disconnected from reality, as they did with regard to the 2020 election outcome, that’s a problem.
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Yet Fox does still want to influence its audience in more subtle ways. It attempts to steer, redirect, and shape their rage without ever taking too heavy a hand, and certainly without making them angry enough that they might stop watching.
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This seems to be the theory behind Carlson’s intervention to get Powell pushed out of the Trump team. He was intensely careful to communicate to Fox viewers that he was on their side — really — and that he wasn’t one of the liberal elites mocking them and rolling his eyes at them. (Though in private, he really was mocking and rolling his eyes at Powell.)
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</p>
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Or take Fox’s coverage of Gov. Ron DeSantis, which <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/08/13/inside-fox-news-desantis-is-the-future-of-the-party-and-hes-taking-advantage/">has been so positive and frequent</a> that it has helped push the Florida governor rather close to Trump in national polls of the 2024 presidential race, though DeSantis isn’t even running yet. Fox <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html">can’t take down Trump</a> because its viewers simply wouldn’t accept such a blunt intervention. But it can build up a Trump alternative, portraying him in a way their viewers would eat up (as the culture war champion battling woke liberals). It’s a more subtle form of influence, but it is a real one.
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</p>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="zQ3kfJ">
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Still, the Dominion suit overall shows the limits of Fox’s powers. Viewers aren’t locked in with Fox — Fox is locked in with them.
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<li><strong>A movie trailer editor deconstructs iconic trailers</strong> -
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<img alt="" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/FniwGVKifnZTf7FQztMS5aLOUsk=/240x0:1680x1080/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71988602/VDC_POP_090_trailereditorreacts_THUMB_SYN.0.jpg"/>
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How trailers work, explained by someone who makes them.
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Trailer editor Bill Neil works at Buddha Jones making movie trailers that scare, excite, and, most importantly, get people to want to see a movie. His work includes <a href="https://youtu.be/In8fuzj3gck">Jordan Peele’s <em>Nope</em></a><em>, </em><a href="https://youtu.be/DV8mJcuYVaA">Zack Snyder’s <em>Dawn of the Dead</em></a>, and <a href="https://youtu.be/A4U2pMRV9_k">M. Night Shyamalan’s <em>Old</em></a>.
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</p>
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In this video, he explains the things a trailer editor notices about trailers old and new, great and terrible, and somewhere in the middle. Starting with trailers from the ’60s, he gets all the way to the present while reviewing techniques like sound design, “rug pulls,” and how to hide fake blood. And if you feel the urge to complain that today’s trailers give too much of the plot away, Neil shows us how that’s not a brand-new trend.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="9WzXpN">
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For more videos on the film industry, check out Vox producer Ed Vega’s latest video on subtitles and <a href="https://www.vox.com/videos/23564218/subtitles-sound-downmixing-dialogue-movies-tv">why we all seem to need them now</a>.
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You can find this video and all of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA"><strong>Vox’s videos on YouTube</strong></a>.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Golden Neil should score over his rivals in the Indian Air Force Trophy</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Irish Gold and Rodrigo catch the eye</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>PSL will not be affected by terrorist attack in Karachi: PCB chief Najam Sethi</strong> - The security agencies and government had also given clearance for the PSL matches to continue in Karachi</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>New Zealand vs England 1st Test | Broad and Bazball roll over the Kiwis on day 3</strong> - New Zealand was reeling at 63-5 at stumps, still 330 runs behind the target</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>CBIP award to Telugu Ganga project</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lakhs of devotees throng Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh on Maha Shivaratri</strong> - The general queue lines stretches to more than two kilometres outside the temple, over 1,000 police personnel deployed for bandobast</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Devotees throng Shiva temples on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>20 government hostel boys taken ill in Eluru district</strong> -</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine War: Over 30,000 Wagner fighters injured or killed in Ukraine, says US</strong> - Poorly trained convicts make up 90% of the Russian mercenaries killed, according to a US estimate.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Turkey-Syria earthquake: Survivor rescued after 278 hours under flattened building</strong> - One man was found alive under a collapsed building 278 hours after the earthquake hit Turkey.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Munich Security Conference: First Leopard tanks to be deployed to Kyiv ‘very soon’ - Germany</strong> - Speaking in Munich, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz tells allies to expect a long war in Ukraine.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>EDF: French energy giant posts worst-ever results</strong> - The €17.9bn (£16bn) loss is being blamed on capped prices as well as repairs to power stations.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Serbia nationalist protests spike tensions over Russia</strong> - Death threats were made against President Vucic who denounced the protesters as “anti-Serbian”.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The US plan to become the world’s cleantech superpower</strong> - Biden’s revolution in industrial policy is a gamble with geopolitical ramifications. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1918239">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro review: More than enough buttons, too much software</strong> - Supreme programmability is too reliant on the Synapse app. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1917971">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy</strong> - Microsoft limits long conversations to address “concerns being raised.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1918465">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts</strong> - Three breaches over as many years all carried out by the same threat actor. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1918737">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SpaceX could be fined $175K for failure to properly report launch data to FAA</strong> - SpaceX has 30 days to respond to the FAA’s enforcement letter. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1918682">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Do you know why batman doesn’t have a police badge?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Just found out there are 50 registered sex offenders in my neighbourhood</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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That honestly makes me really uncomfortable. I don’t want that type of competition.
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Ps: I’m just kidding lol. I’m not registered
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Our first single is called “If I had a HiFi.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/-WontLoversRevoltNow"> /u/-WontLoversRevoltNow </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/114vykn/im_in_a_band_called_the_palindromes/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/114vykn/im_in_a_band_called_the_palindromes/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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She said it would cost $50
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I said I only have have $5 what can I get for that?
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She said a bus pass
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I said what am I supposed to do with a bus pass?
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She said I don’t know but you’re not getting off here
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Queasy_Doughnut7507"> /u/Queasy_Doughnut7507 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1154usy/i_asked_a_hooker_for_a_blowjob/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1154usy/i_asked_a_hooker_for_a_blowjob/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Spartan, a Samurai and a Viking are summoned to Outworld for Mortal Kombat.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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Their first opponent is the dread-sorcerer Shang Tsung.
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The Spartan goes first, and quickly overpowers Shang Tsung, but is unsure of what to do next. Shang Tsung then speaks a word of power and the Spartan trips over his own cape and impales himself headfirst upon his own spear. Shang Tsung laughs and steals his soul.
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Next up is the Samurai. He too, quickly dominates Shang Tsung, but is unsure of his next move. Shang Tsung then speaks his word of power and the Samurai flips his katana around and seppukus himself repeatedly. Again, Shang Tsung laughs and steals his soul.
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Finally it is the Viking’s turn. Like the two before him he quickly beats the sorcerer’s ass, but then he starts singing and chanting. Shang Tsung speaks his word of power but the Viking does not hear it over all the singing and chanting. The Viking then swaggers up to Shang Tsung, does the splits, then punches the dread-sorcerer square in the balls before beheading him with a single uppercut. Then he laughs and steals Shang Tsung’s soul. Out of the three, only the Viking knows how to Finnish Hymn.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/smilelikeachow"> /u/smilelikeachow </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/114qslx/a_spartan_a_samurai_and_a_viking_are_summoned_to/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/114qslx/a_spartan_a_samurai_and_a_viking_are_summoned_to/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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