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- He was playing poker, with a pair on the table, but his trump card was an ace.

- I refuse to pay this "Bill".

- That looks like an Obama suit.

Are these political statements? It's naive to make such a claim that a whitelist of word is sufficient. The "facebook is censoring me" gang will eat you up in a jiffy.

Even extremely complex models will fail this test.

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List A: support, vote, protest, defend, military, troops, economy, country, taxes, rights, government, children, child, responsibility, leader

List B: obama, pelosi, clinton, trump, pence, mitch, reagan, bush, maga, antifa, president, congress, representative, democrat, republican

If a comment has a word from list A and list B, it's political.

Using this simple scheme on Facebook would be something I would do if possible.

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