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The Forgotten Man is a 2010 painting by the American artist Jon McNaughton. It depicts President Barack Obama standing in front of the White House beside a destitute citizen while being haunted by figures of all past presidents. The painting has attracted notoriety for its unsubtle political themes.
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The Forgotten Man is a 2010 painting by the American artist Jon McNaughton. It depicts President Barack Obama standing in front of the White House beside a destitute citizen while being haunted by figures of all past presidents. The painting has attracted notoriety for its unsubtle political themes.

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Industry plant is a pejorative used to describe musicians who are believed to have become popular through nepotism, inheritance, wealth, favoritism, or their connections in the music industry rather than on their own merits or organic growth.

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The phrase "spiritually Israeli" is an internet meme and pejorative term critical of Israel that emerged on social media platforms in 2025, used to describe people, brands, cultural trends, or phenomena that the speaker finds vapid, soulless, commercially hollow, or inauthentic.

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Crimean Tatar denialism is the idea that the Crimean Tatars are not a distinct ethnic group. After the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the Soviet government no longer recognized Crimean Tatars as a distinct ethnic group and forbade internal passports and official documents from using the term.

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Mosaic authorship is the Judeo-Christian tradition that the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, were dictated by God to Moses. Mosaic authorship of the Torah was unquestioned by both Jews and Christians until the European Enlightenment.

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The Catholic Church first prohibited membership in Masonic organizations in 1738. From 1738 until 1983, Catholics who associated with, or publicly supported, Masonic organizations were censured with automatic excommunication. Since 1983, excommunication is no longer automatic but optional.

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Hubal was a god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably by the Quraysh at the Kaaba in Mecca. Many Evangelical Christian critics of Islam have claimed that the worship of Allah as proclaimed by Muhammad was not a restoration of Abrahamic monotheism but an adaptation of the worship of Hubal.

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Temple denial is the claim that the successive temples in Jerusalem either did not exist or they did exist but were not constructed in Jerusalem on the site of the Temple Mount. This claim has been advanced by Islamic political leaders, religious figures, intellectuals, and authors.

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Dolly is a Brazilian soft drink company based in Diadema, São Paulo. Its main product is Dolly Guaraná. Its mascot, Dollynho, has appeared in the company's advertisements since 2006. Due to its exposure on national television, Dollynho became a popular internet meme in Brazil.

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The 26 Martyrs of Japan were a group of Catholics who were executed by crucifixion on 5 February 1597, in Nagasaki, Japan. In 1587, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered all Christians expelled on the grounds that foreigners threatened the Japanese state and that Christianity was hostile to Buddhism.

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John the Baptist (c. 6 BC – c. AD 30) was a religious preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. John is mentioned by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus, and he is revered as a major figure in Christianity, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, the Druze faith, and Mandaeism.

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Prison abolition is a movement that seeks to abolish prisons as an institution. Unlike prison reform, prison abolition aims to establish a criminal justice system that avoids the use of detention entirely. Supporters advocate for a restorative justice approach as opposed to retributive justice.

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The 2026 anti-immigrant movement in South Africa is an ongoing series of protests, campaigns, demonstrations, and incidents of violence directed against foreign nationals in South Africa. Thousands have fled their homes and gathered in temporary camps or sought protection at government facilities.

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The Cuban success story, or the myth of the golden exile, is the idea that Cuban exiles that came to the United States after the Cuban Revolution were mostly or exclusively white, conservative, and financially successful. The idea has been criticized as an inaccurate depiction of Cuban Americans.

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Anti-Katyn is a denialism campaign intended to reduce and obscure the significance of the Katyn massacre of 1940 by referencing the deaths from disease of thousands of Imperial Russian and Red Army soldiers at Polish internment camps during the interwar period.

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There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters. These stories usually involve an antiwar female spitting on a veteran, often yelling "baby killer". Most occur in civilian airports as GIs returned in their uniforms.

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100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) is a non-fiction book by conservative pundit Bernard Goldberg published in 2005. The book lists specific individuals whom Goldberg implicates in making the United States a "far more selfish, vulgar, and cynical place."

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The Montgomery Riverfront brawl was an altercation that occurred in 2023 in Montgomery, Alabama when bystanders intervened in a physical assault on a dock. The ensuing brawl was filmed and gained significant media attention due to its violent nature, the racial undertones, and Montgomery's history.

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The Vietnam stab-in-the-back myth asserts that the United States' defeat during the Vietnam War was caused by various American groups, such as civilian policymakers, mass media, protesters, US Congress, or liberals. The American claim usually lacks the antisemitic elements of its German namesake.

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