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forever, the haters, on the other hand, simply hate people, sometimes one persons in particular, sometimes many people, simply because they are haters and, as the saying goes, "haters gonna hate". So the point I am trying to make here is that while The Man is trying to bring you down and crush your spirit and the spirit of all mankind to bring about some kind of
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But The Man is not necessarily a man. The Man can be a man, a woman, or an organization or collection of people, who may or may not be all of the same gender. The question at foot here is not whether The Man is in fact a man or not, but how he is keepin' us all down and how we have to stick it to the
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I'm going to do a little to distinguish between the term "The Man" as in "The Man around here" and "The Man you want to talk to" and "the Man" as in "You're the Man!". One is an indication of seniority or authority while the other is a genuine compliment but with a slightly exaggerated or sarcastic
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The Man is quite separate from the haters. Although both are trying to get you down, they do so for different reasons. The Man is trying to get you down so he can control your life, take your money and change the laws of the land so that The
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it's worth acknowledgement that mention of "sticking it to the man" in a wikipedia page itself constitutes "sticking it to the man", and may therefore violate rules of impartiality and fairness, which were after all written by -- the man.
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I came here to see what I could learn and this is the page I was brought to. Should a section be added to this article, as a stub, in an attempt to extract more information from those who may have it, regarding the publication?
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I have similar doubts here as was expressed above for the
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I move that Haters should be added to this article seeing as it is becoming the 21st century version of "The Man". "The haters be bringing my crew down" is the modern equivalent of "The man is trying to bring us down".
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I sometimes stick it to the man by deliberately leaving doors slightly ajar (though not if it's like, an air-conditioned room, because that would be sticking it to Mother Nature, who definitely is not The Man)
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Then how come there is less than one page for this article? It's a underused expression By the way encyclopedia dramatica it's a unfunny site that tries to imitate wikipedia, go figure!
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