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Grand Ballroom of Doom

By March 21, 2022
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Two panel comic from the series "Grand Ballroom of Doom," in which a man with a shaved head, glasses, and a button-up shirt, talks to a crowd of people while holding a box of pizza, telling them that only people who aren't very hungry can have a piece, as a metaphor for the 2020 census, which because of skewed data, resulted in a lack of resources for those who need them the most.

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