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Did you even try? From the article:

> Chelsea Manning is an advocate of government transparency, a transgender rights activist and a former United States Army intelligence analyst.

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Based on the commenter's first comment in this thread, I'm assuming that they already know who Chelsea Manning is. Unfortunately the content of all of their comments seems aimed to inflame/offend rather than discuss.

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