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THE SUPERHERO IN MY KIDS' GAMES ISN'T SPIDER-MAN — IT'S THE GUY WHO SHOT A HEALTHCARE CEO
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THE SUPERHERO IN MY KIDS' GAMES ISN'T SPIDER-MAN — IT'S THE GUY WHO SHOT A HEALTHCARE CEO

When children start turning corporate resistance into playground games, maybe it's time to admit they understand power better than their hashtag-activist parents.

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ON SATURDAY, I overheard my kids and their friends playing in our living room. At first, it was just the usual chaos of the kid make-believe world-building phase. You know, the old deciding who will be who, what will be what, how Eli’s little brother most definitely won’t be involved because evidently he ruins fucking everything.

But then something made…

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