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Abby Martin

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We are doing the show in the honor of Derek the safari guide who was killed by Cecil's cousin in Africa today

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All day my fucking Facebook has been a mess because of people angry at me thinking that I really cared that this fucking safari guide got killed

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But Abby Martin's here to straighten everything out

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Did you did you cry when Cecil? No, I didn't shed any tears. No, no. I cried when Jimmy Kimmel cried

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Yeah, see these stories are just I just feel like they're manufactured kind of outrage and feign outrage for people to just feel better

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I mean yes, of course you should

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You know love animals and love humans and have solidarity with all living things

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But it just seemed really manufactured especially when I read interviews with people who lived there and they were like who the fuck is Cecil the lion?

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Like the way the hysteria in this country made it seem like he was like their national animal

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Yeah, this was the the lion that was like a loved the lion right this beloved creature and everyone was like

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Why do Americans care so much about this line?

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Well, no one had heard anything about him at all

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Until this guy killed them and then once we decided there was a name to Cecil

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You know then it became this big thing well, I had a Justin Ren who's a friend of mine who works in a Congo

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He he builds water wells for these people in the Congo that don't have fresh water and he said the most sobering statistic yesterday

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He said 5,000 children between the age of up to the age of five die every day in the Congo because they drink dirty water

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5,000 a day a day I can't even comprehend it's insane. It's impossible to wrap your head around and

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You know black lives don't matter lions matter

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No, seriously, I mean when you're that someone else wrote a really poignant editorial like this African woman and she was just like this

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You know, there's so much death and destruction basically because of just so many things globalization

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