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sagebodisattva · 4 years

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The Conspiracy Brain Syndrome

I’ve already made this point a few times in the past, in a couple of different videos, but I think the time has finally come, to where, it needs to be more significantly emphasized, and finally be made absolutely positively unmistakably clear. Laid bare in such a way, so as to leave no question, dispelling any lingering doubts, and, hopefully, finally lay the whole issue to rest in it’s entirety. And the issue in question today is, conspiracy theory. The ideology, of which, we’ll refer to as “conspiracism”, and the adherents, of whom, we’ll classify as “conspiracists.”

Right now, these particular terms are strictly Meta Sage neologisms; as, the field of interest concerned with conspiracy theory is not generally called “conspiracism”, and the people who gravitate towards this field of interest are not commonly referred to as “conspiracists.” So the purpose of using these labels is just for the ease of discussion, even though, overall, these kinds of titles are probably ill advised, as they imply a sense of acknowledged legitimacy, which isn’t warranted, and ends up only providing them undue platform. And that’s the issue I’d like to address today. This type of allowance is the whole reason this dubious ideology has ballooned so far out of proportion. This pervasive degeneration is no longer restricted to a peripheral fringe element. No, unfortunately, the malignancy has now entered into the blood of the mainstream. So, it’s too late to nip it in the bud, as flagrant inattentiveness has allowed this disinformation to permeate into the psyche of the collective subconscious; and, at this point, only a direct vigorous attack will suffice to remedy the situation. This is no longer just a minor concern. I know that it wasn’t too long ago, when this whole issue was the equivalent of a little unassuming hapless baby lizard, but that time has passed, and we are now dealing with a full grown acid spitting nine headed hydra. We’re not looking to cut off just one of the heads of the nine headed hydra, no. We are looking to accomplish more efficient long term solutions; like hobbling the hydra, right at his fucking ankles. Kill the body, and the heads will die. This is no time for the mere treatment of symptoms. That’s wasted energy; effort that could be much better spent re-directed to more worthy applications. No, for this type of affliction, you have to go directly to the core of the disease, then root it out, systematically.

So, I’m here today to educate you as to the exact reasons why conspiracism is a crock of horse shit. But first, before we go any further, there’s a few things you need to understand, up front. Conspiracism is not a philosophy. Conspiracism is not raised awareness. Conspiracism is not righteous trutherism. Rather, conspiracism is a huge dirty lie; and, point blank, a symptom of a particularly nasty underlying mental illness. That’s gonna be the main thrust of this video. To get locked up in this kind of mind-trap is a mental disorder; even though “conspiracism”, isn’t yet listed in the DSM-5, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; but it should be. And this needs to be seen to, immediately. And we could call this particular mental disorder:

“The Conspiracy Brain Syndrome.”

It needs a stigmatizing title, because the idea is to try and actively discourage it, and, ultimately, smother it out of existence. So anchoring it down with a heavy stigma will really help to put things in the proper perspective; because not all that much has been done to denounce or condemn this type of mental sickness thus far. Obviously, most people must have been dismissing this sickness as merely benign, as it’s been left alone to wreak havoc on people’s minds, unchecked and unchallenged. But the time has come to take the matter way more seriously, and begin to majorly disincentivize any path that will lead to a conspiracy mindset. People that espouse conspiracy theory are a major issue, and I’m not sure the general populace is even aware that it’s such a grievous problem. Unaware to such an extent, that conspiracism has now begun to infect the minds of an unprecedented amount of everyday people. To such a degree, that now, even the government of the United States is perpetuating this sickness, making implications that’s there’s some fight going on behind the scenes against “a deep state”, attempting to lend credence to the idea that a hidden government lurks behind the legitimate government, pulling the puppet strings, even though that’s all just a flat out deception, designed to scare you into continuing to assign power and responsibility elsewhere. That’s right. So actually, if you think about it, conspiracy theory is really a part of the conspiracy. Conspiracism is just another method of fear and control, designed specifically to weaken and oppress your mind.

So, I’m just so deeply sorry to all the conspiracists out there, who have just so much invested in this, but, just so you know, you have invested in a major turkey. A jive turkey, at that. Are you surprised? What, you thought you were doing something constructive for the people? Where do you get these outlandish ideas in your head that your conspiracy theory mongering is somehow a form of activism? You ain’t activating shit. At least not activating anything positive. You are only sowing anger, distrust, paranoia, and divisiveness; which, if anything, makes you an agent of disservice. So get it straight. You are not blazing a path of honor and truth, you are suffering from an acute delusional syndrome; a mental disability, that has blighted the minds of it’s fanatical adherents, and rendered their functional value down to almost completely useless. The only thing these types of warped zealots are good for, are straightjackets, rubber rooms, court ordered prescriptions of medication, and many many years of deep intensive therapy. Simply put, people who are obsessed with conspiracy theories, are mentally ill, period. There’s no reason to make any bones about it. There’s no caveats to consider, nor the slightest concern that there may be some possible hidden value to be found, veiled underneath it’s plainly unavailing utility. No, it’s quite safe to toss this one in the garbage can, without a second thought.

And people really need to step it up, when it comes to condemning these types of delusions, and step it up when it comes to shaming and ostracizing those that herald this type of message. These people deserve to be relentlessly shunned and outcast by society; so you really have to go out of your way to make their lives a living hell, otherwise they won’t find any motivation to upkeep their mental health. They will actually neglect their own mental health, to your detriment, so you shouldn’t wait too long to denounce and repudiate it, otherwise it will become too late, and soon, the disease will have spread throughout the whole community, and before long, you will quickly become overrun. You need to do whatever you can do to combat it, right now; by any and all means necessary. And much of this starts out by understanding that, you owe absolutely no allegiance, nor respect, to conspiracism. Why would you? It doesn’t have any value in the construction and maintenance of a civilization, and doesn’t have any value in the ideas, wisdom and philosophy of a civilization. So what is it, other then a cavity in the mouth of society?

And if your answer to anything I’m saying right now has anything to do with yet more conspiracy, you can put a sock in it, and save your breath, even though you are a huge waste of oxygen. Sorry, but conspiracy theories are not valid as arguments. If anything, they are indications of a deeply troubled psychology; but little else. Perhaps they serve as coping mechanisms for the malcontent, but if so, it’s a festering malignancy that’s doing more harm then good. At best, maybe this type of thinking helps you to feel better about yourself, as you fancy that the wool has been pulled down over the eyes of everyone in the world, except you, but, in reality, much of this grandiose delusion is just due to simple intellectual immaturity, and hence, it’s way past the time for you to grow up, and stop fervently clinging to juvenile belief systems.

If you can ever finally manage to emerge out from underneath this oppressive mental scourge, then you’ll eventually come to see that, all this time, you were just being an ignorant narrow-minded belligerent jackass. So you really need to get over yourself. Understand: in the wide spectrum of philosophical milestones, “conspiracy theory”, is nearly at the bottom of the barrel on the philosophical totem pole. This is the domain for beginners, not contenders. Conspiracism is barely only a notch or two above superstition and religion. Let’s put it this way: if we were to consider religion as kindergarten, then accordingly, conspiracy theory can be regarded as the 1st grade.

And speaking of conspiracy theory and religion, did you know that these two positions share a little more in common, other then both being adjacent to each other at the bottom of the spectrum of wisdom and intelligence? Indeed, these positions might even be said to be ideological cousins of sorts. Sometimes the conceptual playing field can present conditions that make for some very strange ideological bedfellows. Case in point, conspiracy theory and religion. They are more similar then most people would like to believe. They both distrust mankind and society, they both despise science and technology, and they both enjoy demonizing anyone or anything that dares to disagree with their dogma. And if you have any doubts, conduct your own survey. I would say probably upwards to 80% of people who subscribe to conspiracy theories, also subscribe to god theories. Fact is, over time, these two positions have become allies; and it’s not all that surprising to see why. If you are already of a mind that thinks mankind and civilization are inherently untrustworthy and evil, then how far can you be from a mind that declares it all to be the work of Satan? Not that far at all, I say.

If you look more closely at the association between these two positions, you will discover that, the type of mind you find gravitating towards something like conspiracy theory, is cut from the exact same cloth as the type of mind you find gravitating towards something like religion. In other words, stupid superstitious people. Deluded people, who want to desperately avoid the truth at all costs, by embracing some alternate false version of reality. An alternate false version of reality that, conveniently, assigns them more importance, and helps enable them to think that they are part of some great divine order; which they then use as the justification for their self important assumed sense of entitlement, and their aggressively invasive need to impose, oppress and demonize others. And yet, ironically, in truth, these people are of extremely low moral fiber, and have broken characters, completely bereft of any existential quality. Yet, these people feel they are in some position to tell other people how to think and what to believe, and which way they should live their lives. It’s a complete joke. It’s like a homeless crack-head trying to criticize you and give you advice on how to properly conduct your life. Gimme a break.

So bare this in mind, before you start to go too crazy, patting yourself on the back, telling yourself how much of a big fucking hero you are, for doing us all such a great favor by educating us with your fear porn, and, spew-projecting onto everyone, all of your depraved paranoid insecurities, with vomit projectile accuracy. Thanks, but you are not a hero, by any stretch of the imagination. You are not thinking outside of the box. You are not a “critical thinker.” And you are not distinguishing yourself as some great knowledgeable shepherd, who stands apart from the masses, ready, able and willing to lead the sheeple away from the darkness with some great liberating truth. No, in reality, meaning outside your fantasy, you are still a mainstream sheeple; you are just a disgruntled mainstream sheeple, who thinks that they’re somehow being less of a patsy simply by suspiciously distrusting everything. Wow! (Sarcastic clapping sound.) Great fucking job, malcontent sheep! You’ve achieved distrusting everything! Wow! You’ve accomplished a great feat of cynicism! Woot! Hurray! Sorry, but you are not some tough maverick rebel, you are just a plain ole mainstream malcontented sheep. I bet if we shove a million dollars down your blowhole, you’ll shut the hell up and go away real fast, because, in truth you are just a big lying disgruntled fake, blowing lots of hot air.

Yeah. So in case you were a little confused, now you can be unconfused. And I don’t care how much research you’ve fixated into this unbending obsession, your research means diddly-squat, and doesn’t change a damn thing. I know that you believe this self-deceptive fallacy that, the more and more research you do, the more and more crazy you start sounding to all the ignorant people around you, right? Uh huh. Well, newsflash: Your research means jack shit. You haven’t even figured out yet that sensory perception is an illusion, and yet you think that, somehow, by deeply researching the illusion, that you are actually accomplishing something useful? Shit. You may sound crazy to the ignorant lemmings, but so what; that’s like having misgivings from a donkey. Who cares. What should worry you a bit more, is that you sound like a complete and total blockhead dumbass to anyone with any degree of higher wisdom. You come across no better then a ravenous junky, struggling with an addiction, desperately seeking some way to find that next fix. So, no, you are not uncovering a truth with your “research”, you are only wallowing in a delusion: and yet you think you’ve discovered something earth shattering by noticing some sort of interconnectivity in reality. Wow! You’ve made interpretations of symbols, codes, and anagrams! Well, congratulations. Only problem is, you’re taking the whole thing way too damn literally; so it’s no surprise that you think it’s all just a matter of rooting out some secret group of dark ominous “others”, who are plotting to control or destroy a so called “world.” Your underlying intentions may be good, but your mission is utterly misdirected and futile; as, your remedy to the problem is ultimately ineffectual, because it’s an approach that addresses the wrong area of concern.

This is why you will never be given any true legitimacy, because, after all, if what you are promoting is not the truth, then, really, what the hell are you really doing? Obsessive compulsive rituals. Thoughts and actions of attachment and addiction. In other words, masturbation. So why should anyone take anything coming out of your mouth seriously, when it’s so abundantly and redundantly obvious that you have a seriously perverse hang up? It would be one thing if, every once in a while, you took note of a possible conspiracy theory, considered it briefly, and then moved on, but no. You get STUCK; and that’s how you know this obsessive fixation is really just a mental dysfunction. Where now, everything in life becomes a component of some dark nefarious plot, and there’s no conspiracy theory in existence that could possibly be too far fetched a consideration to be believed and accepted as an ironclad truth. It’s like looking at the world through murky colored glasses: everything considered must now be skewed to fit the narrative of the conspiracy theory worldview. It’s an, “When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”, kind of situation. A one trick pony, who’s time has come to be put out to pasture. Because, after awhile, the whole thing just becomes so incredibly tiresome, and BORING; and, notably, a position that seems to mostly be gravitated towards by the intellectually infantile; which, of course, means a whole lotta people. And these douche-bags are annoying as hell. They’d rather scapegoat a boogeyman, then lay down on the ground and wait for rescue. And that’s what’s so seriously infuriating about these conspiracy brains: they don’t actually do anything; other then pissing in the punch bowl. Or maybe an occasional mass shooting. But other then that, very little else. And this madness needs to change.

You claim that you want to confront some kind of evil in this world? Then stop searching ‘out there’, for secret societies of elite plasma drinking pedophile reptilians to blame. You want to confront evil? Then you need not look any further then at your own damn ugly face looking back at you in the mirror. Or, how does the adage go? Sweep around your own front door before you start looking to sweep around everyone else’s. You distrust society? It’s you who can’t be trusted. You think mankind is rotten? It’s you who’s really rotten. Stop playing the victim, and stop playing the blame game. Your entire perceptual reality is sourced from the pure mind, so if there’s something out here you think is evil and an injustice, then the source of that evil and injustice, is within yourself. If you don’t like it, then do something about it, within yourself. Otherwise, just shut up about it; lest I punch a cloth gag so far down your fucking throat, it’ll come out your asshole.

Thank you.

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puwunyboba · 3 years

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You don't have to make romantic advances or date women to love and support them.

With that said, if anyone pressures, or coerces you into something you aren't comfortable with, weather you set a boundary or not.

Someone who loves you wants you to be comfortable, wants you to feel loved.

Real love doesn't use and hurt you, and you are worthy of the love that shows you the difference.

Every person is worthy of patience and mindful attention to their psychological well being. People who are abusers and use you will ignore this, and those who enable their gas lighting and victim blaming have intentions of their own when they bully victims into silence.

Victims see that behavior too, this also being exactly why many don't come forward especially if they feel they are alone, or people openly encourage others to attack them.

To be condemned by those who would call them liars without any consideration, is devastating btw- and there is also a very specific reason for that too.

The important thing to take from this, is not to encourage or internalize the aggressive projections, or character assasinations from abusive people onto victims speaking the truth, this is wrong, because victims don't deserve that in the first place.

This causes nothing but harm.

Those who truly care about finding a real solution should pay close attention to where this aggression is coming from, study it well, because it is telling, in context with how it is weaponized against a victims own liberty.

Abusers do not feel remorse for their behavior, those who enable their behavior make it that much more difficult for victims and witnesses to stand up for themselves or advocate for other victims who are not brave enough to come forward.

Be careful what you allow, because those who haven't come forward are listening. We live that every day. The backlash, and the stigma from rape culture is everywhere.

Just because you can convince yourself of a false paradigm for your own sense of comfort doesn't mean the truth is just an accusation.

However, the logic prevails, unchallenged.

Cutting contact with rape apologists might surprise you, who would let people abuse and use others just for their own sense of comfort.

For it to be at your expense is painted as playing a victim role when in reality this forces the narrative that your trauma is no more than theatrics, this hurts everyone.

If we can't look at these things with compassion we will only continue a cycle that just festers further- poisoning the macrocosm as a whole, in every community over time, as it continues from each person that encounters the very real power dynamic. An impression is left regardless of narrative or opinion, and it is usually unpleasant and hard to cope with.

This is only further aggravated by circumstance- especially with people who traumabond based on their needs, an abuser can leverage this, it can be used to abuse and manipulate victims and coerce the power dynamic further.

Sometimes, it may even feel like there is no safety anywhere unless you do everything right. The worse you cope the more you complete the role you become forced to play, every mistake you might make, weather ur trauma is legitimate or people ignore this, it may start to feel real. Even if it isn't the truth. This narrative can be weaponized against you at the expense of others, or when you reach your limit and fall apart and give in.

Not knowing what to do, feeling like there is no way out, that is not your fault.

You might pretend you're okay with becoming the mascot of a smear campaign, just to cope, and if you're creative you might even reclaim your role because you crave closeness.

Someone taking advantage of your trust is never your fault, some people are not as equipped to perceive these threats or red flags.

Even if thats what your reputation is, despite a very real stigma, the truth is you deserved better, the actions of those who keep rape culture in place are wrong, for the simple fact that they cause harm, to everyone, and you.

To allow it to continue is to be complicit to an evil that will make its way to your doorstep in the most insidious of forms, and the most benign.

Prevention and resistance is not a lazy endeavor, it requires relentless diligence.

That is a valid fight, and its a irl canon quest line we encounter every day, and we may not even see it, until it is affecting us, or someone we care about. This sort of evil, is very real.

That is worth fighting for, to stop this cancer in its tracks is our birthright, but rape culture has pit victims against eachother to prevent that very real solidarity we have.

That in itself is intimidating to those who are determined to preserve that dynamic- no doubt for their own benefit.

If it is something that can be dismantled

(rape culture)

then one must b just as relentless. We must accept what we cannot change, but change what we can't accept. Morality is not easy or pleasant. Hence it is the road less traveled, and sometimes it makes more enemies than friends, but the truth is real, and true freedom is knowing morality, and the change it manifests.

However, this also makes sense. Especially when you consider how intimidating a sense of morality within each of us, will always be what makes us intimidating to those who have depraved intentions, weather they intend to imply it or not. It is up to us to be brave enough to fight it in every form it takes.

If we can free ourselves from this nightmare, then we will be that much more equipped for bigger battles in our future. However, when we stand together, we make history- much like the people who lived before us, who knew how powerful it was to care as one.

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fughtopia · 7 years

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George W. Bush’s Horrific Legacy

May 28, 2017

As part of the drive to drive President Trump from the White House, some “never-Trumpers” are rehabilitating George W. Bush as a relative “moderate” and thus whitewashing his war crimes, notes Lawrence Davidson.

There is an ongoing reality that is destroying hundreds of thousands of lives in the Middle East. And though most Americans are ignorant of the fact, and many of those who should be in the know would deny it, the suffering flows directly from decisions taken by Washington over the last 27 years.

President George W. Bush announcing the start of his invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003.

Some of the facts of the matter have just been presented by the first Global Conflict Medicine Congress held at the American University of Beirut (AUB) earlier this month (May 11-14, 2017). It has drawn attention to two dire consequences of the war policies Americans have carried on in the region: cancer-causing munition material and drug-resistant bacteria.

—Cancer-causing munition material: Materials such as tungsten and mercury are found in the casing of penetrating bombs used in the first and second Gulf wars. These have had long-term effects on survivors, especially those who have been wounded by these munitions. Iraqi-trained and Harvard-educated Dr. Omar Dewachi, a medical anthropologist at AUB fears that “the base line of cancers [appearing in those exposed to these materials] has become very aggressive. … When a young woman of 30, with no family history of cancer, has two different primary cancers – in the breast and in the oesophagus – you have to ask what is happening.” To this can be added that doctors are now “overwhelmed by the sheer number of [war] wounded patients in the Middle East.”

—Drug-resistant bacteria: According to Glasgow-trained Professor Ghassan Abu-Sittah, head of plastic and reconstructive surgery at AUB Medical Center, drug resistance was not a problem during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. However, after the fiasco of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, things began to change. In the period after 1990, Iraq suffered under a vicious sanctions regime imposed by the United Nations at U.S. insistence. During the next 12 years “Iraqis were allowed to use only three antibiotics” and bacterial resistance quickly evolved. Those resistant bacteria spread throughout the region, particularly after the American invasion of the country in 2003.

Today, according to a Medecins Sans Frontieres analysis, “multidrug resistant [MDR] bacteria now accounts for most war wound infections across the Middle East, yet most medical facilities in the region do not even have the laboratory capacity to diagnose MDR, leading to significant delays and clinical mismanagement of festering wounds.”

Insofar as these developments go, it is not that there aren’t contributing factors stemming from local causes such as factional fighting. However, the major triggers for these horrors were set in motion in Washington. As far as I know, no American holding a senior official post has ever accepted any responsibility for this ongoing suffering.

Hiding Reality

As the cancers and untreatable infections grow in number in the Middle East, there is here in the United States a distressing effort to rehabilitate George W. Bush, the American president whose decisions and policies contributed mightily to this ongoing disaster. It is this Bush who launched the unjustified 2003 invasion of Iraq and thereby — to use the words of the Arab League — “opened the gates of hell.”

At the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. military to conduct a devastating aerial assault on Baghdad, known as “shock and awe.”

His rehabilitation effort began in ernest in April 2013, and coincided with the opening of his presidential library. In an interview given at that time, Bush set the stage for his second coming with an act of self-exoneration. He said he remained “comfortable with the decision making process” that led to the invasion of Iraq — the one that saw him fudging the intelligence when it did not tell him what he wanted to hear — and so also “comfortable” with the ultimate determination to launch the invasion.

“There’s no need to defend myself. I did what I did and ultimately history will judge,” he said.

The frivolous assertion that “history will judge” is often used by people of suspect character. “History” stands for a vague future time. Its alleged inevitable coming allows the protagonist to fantasize about achieving personal glory unchallenged by present, usually significant, ethical concerns.

Those seeking George W. Bush’s rehabilitation now like to contrast him to Donald Trump. One imagines they thereby hope to present him as a “moderate” Republican. They claim that Bush was and is really a very smart and analytical fellow [BULLLSHITTTTTT] rather than the simpleton most of us suspect him to be.

In other words, despite launching an unnecessary and subsequently catastrophic war, he was never as ignorant and dangerous as Trump. He and his supporters also depict him as a great defender of a free press, again in contrast to Donald Trump. However, when he was president, Bush described the media as an aider and abettor of the nation’s enemies. This certainly can be read as a position that parallels Trump’s description of the media as the “enemy of the American people.”

But all of this is part of a public relations campaign and speaks to the power of reputation remodeling — the creation of a facade that hides reality. In order to do this you have to “control the evidence” — in this case by ignoring it. In this endeavor George W. Bush and his boosters have the cooperation of much of the mainstream media. No sweat here: the press has done this before.

Except for the odd editorial the mainstream media also contributed to Richard Nixon’s rehabilitation back in the mid 1980s. These sorts of sleights-of-hand are only possible against the background of pervasive public ignorance.

Closed Information Environments

Local happenings are open to relatively close investigation. We usually have a more or less accurate understanding of the local context in which events play out, and this allows for the possibility of making a critical judgment. As we move further away, both in space and time, information becomes less reliable, if for no other reason than it comes to us through the auspices of others who may or may not know what they are talking about.

President George W. Bush in a flight suit after landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln to give his “Mission Accomplished” speech about the Iraq War on May 1, 2003.

As a society, we have little or no knowledge of the context for foreign events, and thus it is easy for those reporting on them to apply filters according to any number of criteria. What we are left with is news that is customized — stories designed to fit preexisting political or ideological biases. In this way millions upon millions of minds are restricted to closed information environments on subjects which often touch on, among other important topics, war and its consequences.

So what is likely to be more influential with the locally oriented American public: George W. Bush’s rehabilitated image reported on repeatedly in the nation’s mainstream media, or the foreign-based, horror-strewn consequences of his deeds reported upon infrequently?

This dilemma is not uniquely American, nor is it original to our time. But its dangerous consequences are a very good argument against the ubiquitous ignorance that allows political criminals to be rehabilitated even as their crimes condemn others to continuing suffering.

If reputation remodelers can do this for George W. Bush, then there is little doubt that someday it will be done for Donald Trump. Life, so full of suffering, is also full of such absurdities.

Lawrence Davidson is a history professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Foreign Policy Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest; America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood; and Islamic Fundamentalism.

#iraq #george w bush #cancer #superbugs #victims of war #crimes against humanity #crimes of aggression #war criminals #dick cheney

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