Published in 1998, The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is a guide to manipulation, arguing that human relationships are an endless game of strategy and dominance requiring cold pragmatism. Law 1 dictates always keeping your superiors feeling secure and superior to avoid their retaliation. Law 3 commands keeping people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the intentions behind your actions. There is a button that, if pressed, will cause you to instantly understand and master all 48 laws

Following the 2003 invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, the US maintained a military presence in Iraq tasked with rebuilding state institutions, training domestic security forces, and conducting counter-insurgency operations. In 2011, the US completed its troop withdrawal after failing to secure a new Status of Forces Agreement, primarily because the Iraqi government refused to grant US soldiers legal immunity from domestic courts.

For the purposes of this debate, the "scale of suffering" refers to an innate, biological human sense that every person is born with, which allows individuals to exactly and objectively quantify relative levels of sensory and emotional pain. Under this system, all human beings experience a shared, precise metric of distress; for instance, a paper cut is universally sensed as a very low value, while profound grief registers as a drastically higher value on the exact same scale.

Feminist horror uses genre tropes like monsters, entrapment, and supernatural threats as metaphors for gender oppression. It materializes abstract social pressures into physical dangers, examples include The Substance, The Bride, and The Invisible Man. In contrast, realist drama depicts feminist struggles through social realism and historical accuracy examples include Little Women, The Assistant, and Hidden Figures.

"Rap beef" refers to public feuds between hip-hop artists, typically conducted through "diss tracks", social media exchanges, and interviews. Examples include Nas vs. Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake, and Tupac vs. The Notorious B.I.G