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The Social Benefits of Swearing

How profanity can help you seem more likable
Source: Rafael Marchante / Reuters

Earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee began selling t-shirts on its site with a punchy slogan: “Democrats give a shit about people.”

They were, of course, just following the lead of Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez, who has said that President Trump “doesn't give a shit about health care."

He’s not the only prominent Democrat who’s been known to curse in the heat of the moment. magazine, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, if lawmakers are “not helping people, we should go the fuck home.”

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