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sincx posted:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-24/dfat-and-lawyers-have-had-no-contact-with-yang-hengjun/12481706 multiple Soviet defectors successfully un-defected back to the USSR over the course of the Cold War, and a few North Korean defectors have attempted to do the same
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Jul 25, 2020 05:37
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je1 healthcare posted:"Hong Kong didn't have universal suffrage under Britain either!" is a common argument, but that's only the case because the CCP repeatedly threatened to invade Hong Kong if they were ever given universal suffrage. Britain did the war math and decided they couldn't defend the city if that happened. this is an incredibly disingenuous interpretation of events, given that their problem with what the British wanted to do was primarily the part where they wanted to carve a (nominally, under the auspices of the British Empire) sovereign state out of Chinese territory, not the specifics of how that state would govern itself
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Apr 10, 2021 16:21
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hell I'd be okay with regular-rear end non-highspeed rail I live in a city that has over a million people in its metro and about 1.3 mil in its combined statistical area, and the nearest Amtrak station of any kind is 110 miles away and sees exactly two trains per day, one inbound and one outbound. if I wanted to go to Chicago from here via car it'd take about 12-14 hours counting stops, if I wanted to take a train it'd take 45+ counting the 90-minute drive to the station, stops, and layovers. Or I could fly there in an hour and 45 minutes, for less money than the two-day train trip costs. Mister Bates has issued a correction as of 22:18 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Apr 12, 2021 22:11
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:this is a messaging shift because "china is strong and powerful" might lead some to think "let's not fight them but find a way to work things out." the propaganda line instead turns into "we have to fight china because they're weak and will lash out and strike us first" 
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Sep 25, 2021 21:46
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FrancisFukyomama posted:how did BF2 and BF4 get through? Chinese people loving love those games since you get to play as the PLA and they’re portrayed as on par with the us military Operation Flashpoint: Red River, a chest-thumping jingoistic American FPS in which you play big badass Marines oo-rah kill bodies, also did well in China because it portrayed the PLA as on par with the US military, and you don't even get to play as them IIRC it was advertised in China as 'experiencing a potential conflict from the other side' or something like that
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Sep 30, 2021 16:51
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lol I love that she did not specify what the specific proposals were
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Oct 5, 2021 01:23
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remember how an insane cult spent 50 million dollars in 1980 money to make 'Inchon', an absolutely poo poo garbage movie about the titular Battle of Inchon, in which a decrepit Laurence Olivier plays Douglas MacArthur and he's portrayed as an infallible badass super-genius demigod and everyone else in the movie is a giant buffoon. the US military let them use thousands of actual soldiers as extras and contributed a US Navy ship for the filming, too. it was like Battlefield Earth with the full backing of the US government. it made back less than 10% of its budget and was so bad it was never released on home video, even though VHS releases were already common by the time it left theaters. it's now almost impossible to find, except in the form of very low quality bootlegs. Ronald Reagan screened it in the White House and loved it so much he wrote about it in his diary, lmao.
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Oct 6, 2021 22:46
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this is like those political cartoons from the 1890s of various European powers slicing up China like a pie except instead of monarchs it's random internet libertarians
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Dec 6, 2021 20:19
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stephenthinkpad posted:You know there is a recent scandal about the material used in the US submarine. I am just writing from memory. Basically a lady scientist who worked fof the MIC contractor admited she was faking the number for decades. They basically claimed the metal could be used in very very cold temp so the contacter could charged for extra $$$$. yeah the reason she gave for faking the number was that she thought it was a stupid waste of time to test the steel at -100 degrees Fahrenheit, since if the ocean is that cold the SSBNs are going to have bigger problems to worry about than structural failure, such as being trapped in a giant block of ice the issue is not that it calls the structural integrity of the subs into question, it's that by not doing the dumb pointless tests for 30+ years she ruined the racket
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Dec 12, 2021 04:53
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Pornographic Memory posted:Haven't been reading this thread but did anybody mention the Tom Clancy book where China invades Russia and the US invites Russia into NATO? Because that one was completely bonkers. I read it as a teenager and didn't really get how just about everything in that book is just pure right wingers' wet dream splattered all over the pages even though it's so obvious now looking back at it the Clancyverse is a magical place see, most of his deranged right-wing wank fantasies happen in the same universe. This means that, in his utopian right-wing fantasy, all of the following things have happened: - the IRA have teamed up with the Black Panthers to attempt to assassinate the Prince of Wales on US soil, almost successfully, failing only because the IRA men stopped in the middle of the operation to kill their American allies for no reason - Palestinian militants, ex-East German communists, and the American Indian Movement have teamed up to nuke the Super Bowl. the Palestinians stop in the middle of the operation to kill their American ally for no reason, but the operation is still ultimately successful. the US has been nuked in Clancyverse. - the US suffers a major epidemic, which results in a nationwide lockdown enforced by strict martial law, which every state complies with and which faces no significant resistance from the populace. the only characters in the book to express opposition to being trapped at a random truck stop for months by the lockdown are two terrorists who were in the process of trying to drive a bomb to their target and are annoyed that the lockdown is getting in the way of the terrorism they're trying to do. the epidemic turns out to have been a bio-terror attack by Iran. - the US comes within a hair's breadth of suffering a second epidemic-causing bio-terror attack, this time by a militant wing of the loving Sierra Club. - Iran and Iraq have briefly merged into a single country, which the US has gone to war with. - the US has fought a war with China. - the US has fought a war with loving Japan. - almost the entire US federal government has been killed by a Japanese ultranationalist in a kamikaze attack on the Capitol during a State of the Union address. - the President's daughter has been kidnapped by Iranian-backed terrorists. - a Secret Service agent has attempted to assassinate the President because he (the agent) is Muslim, and was foiled only because one of the other agents took the bullets out of his gun. - a group of Islamist terrorists have snuck across the Mexican border into the US and shot up a mall in a small Midwestern US town, killing a lot of people before a heroic citizen with a gun stops them. as the terrorists are bleeding out on the ground, the hero literally grabs a football from a sporting goods store and puts the football in their hands and says they're holding a pigskin from a genuine American pig and the terrorist's eyes are filled with horror because he knows he's going to hell now. - the Israel-Palestine conflict has been solved forever by turning Jerusalem into a Vatican-style religious city-state with security responsibilities turned over to the Swiss Guards. - the US has formally instituted the 'Ryan Doctrine', which states that the US reserves the right to execute the head of state of any country they deem to have 'ordered attacks on American citizens, territory, or possessions'. it has exercised this right by murdering the Ayatollah of Iran on live television. all of this has happened in a span of maybe fifteen years?
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Dec 15, 2021 08:53
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also worth mentioning is that the specific way they do these assassinations is by stabbing their targets in the rear end with the syringe
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Dec 15, 2021 09:57
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Corky Romanovsky posted:What are the planes going to be called now? Sukmi
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Dec 16, 2021 04:14
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XMNN posted:https://twitter.com/blanktycho/status/1471180914206121985?t=wNytCYJ4_X_isa2oZJ_e6A&s=19 those devious commies, organizing huge public concerts and then executing everyone who attends
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Dec 16, 2021 19:57
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good
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Dec 17, 2021 08:36
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anti-Japaneseism is as worthless an ideology as antideutsch, with the difference being that the antideutsch are mostly just annoying, while anti-Japaneseism did genuine damage to the Japanese revolutionary left by killing a bunch of civilians in pointless nihilistic terror attacks against nothing in particular
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Dec 23, 2021 22:36
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Doc Hawkins posted:seems like this attitude would be corrosive to solidarity to put it mildly so i don't think it's for me, thanks it was, indeed, extremely corrosive to solidarity! accidentally killing a bunch of random people with your bomb who weren't even affiliated with your target company, and then saying it was okay because they were all Japanese and thus all complicit in the crimes of the empire (which happened!) did not win many hearts and minds. it was, and is, also anticommunist, there is no room for any kind of class analysis if you think literally everyone in the imperial core down to the lowliest beggar on the street is complicit in its crimes because they haven't overthrown the state yet. I don't think there are actually any anti-Japaneseist organizations left, you might be surprised to learn that organizing around an ideology that calls for all of its potential recruits to be killed led to some difficulty gaining and retaining membership. there is clearly at least one adherent of the ideology left though
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Dec 23, 2021 23:04
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Red and Black posted:This discussion reminds me of how some “leftists” have come out recently to defend the deliberate mass killings of civilians through area bombing during WW2. If every civilian shares responsibility for their government’s actions then there are no civilians the Antideutsch have been saying this for decades and have a party to celebrate the Dresden bombing every year
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Dec 24, 2021 00:45
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Mameluke posted:Is Moon Jae-in really the SK left? I thought he was like Macron or Trudeau. I don't really follow Korean politics but I had recalled Sim Sang-jung as the best mainstream candidate from that election that's about as close to 'left' as you can get in South Korea, because their 'democratic' government will outright ban any political party that espouses overtly socialist politics
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Dec 24, 2021 08:46
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Lostconfused posted:Yeah there is no history of resistance against occupying invaders in Eastern Europe. None at all. the US would call these tactics 'terrorists using civilians as human shields' and 'using our values against us' and kill 500 children
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Dec 27, 2021 01:42
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Raskolnikov38 posted:in yet another case of anarchists are the stupidest motherfuckers on this planet imagine D&D being too tankie for you and still considering yourself a radical anything
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Jan 1, 2022 18:48
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mila kunis posted:while the brave geniuses in that thread are asserting that the soviets deliberately set out to starve their own people to death, is there a word for this: that doesn't count because it's not the Taliban deliberately starving their own people, which would be bad, it is a foreign country deliberately starving their people in order to punish them for disobedience, which is good
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Jan 10, 2022 17:36
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Red and Black posted:Is anyone else confused how China put external pressure on Biden’s COVID policy? it would be better to let millions die than admit the Chinese were right about something
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Jan 11, 2022 17:22
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/promiseli_/status/1480584515336605699?s=20 Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the world Scouting movement, writing in his personal diary in 1939: "Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc." he was a big fan of Mussolini too, and actually traveled to Italy to meet the man himself
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Jan 11, 2022 20:33
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Some Guy TT posted:is this a new version im sure weve seen it before Chinese-occupied Manchukuo lmao French-occupied Vichy Lithuanian-occupied Reichskommisariat Ostland
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Jan 12, 2022 02:10
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FishBulbia posted:I seriously had never heard of vaush until people started ragging on the guy, sounds like he might be doing it intentionally, he seems very boring otherwise 
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Jan 12, 2022 07:09
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HiroProtagonist posted:lmao DC9 is one of the aforementioned facebook groups i referred to in my last post and the source (iirc) of the mentioned dogfucking and pokemon loving comments from him not only did he openly fantasize about it, when challenged he doubled down and argued that dogs can consent to sex with humans under certain circumstances
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Jan 12, 2022 17:11
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DiscountDildos posted:"For the officials, virus control comes first. The people's lives, well-being and dignity come much later." as opposed to America, where the officials care nothing at all for any of those four things
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Jan 12, 2022 21:11
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Centrist Committee posted:unfortunately under the material conditions of d&d, the only way to defeat calm hitler is with calm stalin calm.jpg stalin
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Jan 25, 2022 02:26
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genericnick posted:That's not that bad, is it? Something like 400km? Looking up our best line for about 250km: I live in the United States and all this is making me extremely jealous I've often given consideration to taking a train somewhere one day just for the experience of having done it, but the nearest functioning passenger train station to my city, which has over a million people in its metro area, is over 100 miles away, and sees exactly one arriving train and one departing train per day. Taking a train from here to Chicago is either a 9-hour drive straight there, a 90-minute flight, a 20-hour bus ride, or a ridiculously circuitous train trip that takes you hundreds of miles in the opposite direction and takes almost three days, while also being more expensive than any of the other options, and also requiring you to first drive over an hour in the wrong direction. And that's for coach service, with you sitting in a seat for all the multiple days you'll be spending on that train. If you want a bunk, double the price or more.
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Jan 29, 2022 18:07
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France already left NATO once before and wasn't even a participant in the alliance for most of the Cold War, their connection to it has always been pretty tenuous. even now their participation in it is based almost entirely on how useful it is for their neocolonial ventures in Africa, I sincerely doubt they'd commit much to a hypothetical conflict over Ukraine
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Jan 30, 2022 20:41
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Orange Devil posted:Ask a Native American what a treaty with the US is worth. we think they’re pretty bad
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Feb 1, 2022 01:11
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:That's not even true, and besides nobody suffered more proportionally than Belorussians. didn’t Belarus lose like a quarter of its prewar population
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Feb 1, 2022 04:24
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lmao that American fascists are utterly convinced this old bastard is the secret leader of the world communist movement even though he has exactly the same politics they do
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Feb 1, 2022 17:33
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1489820319229652998?s=20&t=1MPTi0PvYh3JHpwSrKko9g the United States will defend its honor to the last drop of German blood!
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Feb 5, 2022 18:56
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Cpt_Obvious posted:... wtc is a national anarchist? That's a thing people say? lol, when I hear 'national anarchist' the first thing I think of is Michael Schmidt, the white South African 'anarcho-syndicalist' author and organizer who wrote a pair of books that got wide circulation in the anarchist scene, occupied a position of leadership in South Africa's primary anarchist organization for years, and managed to position himself as a major authority on African anarchism. He did all of this while being an extremely overt Nazi who prolifically posted on Stormfront and several other white-nationalist fora, voted for the Afrikaner neo-nazi party Freedom Front Plus in elections, and openly expressed white-supremacist positions, including on at least one occasion stating that it was okay that there were almost no black people involved in the South African anarchist movement, because black people lack the political knowledge necessary to contribute to the movement. He tried to formalize racial segregation in the structure of the Zabalaza Anarchist-Communist Front when it was founded. He wrote and circulated an internal document in 2008 in which he opined that 'the best anarchist militants have almost without exception been whites' and that 'blacks are incapable of other than the basest service to the Revolution'. He wrote articles about 'white genocide' in anarchist publications, and published a piece on anarchist website Anarkismo defending sadistic, mass-murdering neo-Nazi terrorist leader Eugene Terre'Blanche. Schmidt got away with this for over fifteen years before anyone did anything about it, and the only reason that happened is because someone doxxed him to anarchist publishing house AK Press. Up to that point all the badass anti-racist revolutionaries of the South African anarchist movement just quietly put up with him, and tried to pretend that one of their leaders wasn't a full-on sieg-heiling Nazi. By the time he was outed he had successfully run off every single black person who had ever tried to join the organization. The most prominent and well-known anarchist organization on the African continent had a membership that was 100% white, in a country that's over 80% black by population. 'national anarchism' is just a label used by regular old nazis trying to engage in entryism in the anarchist movement, but I can see why they do that, it clearly works
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Feb 8, 2022 09:42
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Some Guy TT posted:not even unpopular sports just individual ones rather than team with not a word about how swimming is by far the most bullshit event because its super easy for a single athlete to get half a dozen medals Olympic swimming is so completely rigged in favor of the United States that the country with the third-most swimming medals is East Germany, which hasn't existed for 30 years
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Feb 8, 2022 10:25
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Didn’t America let a sex pest Olympian compete in 2020 with the promise to keep him separate from everyone? he was an alternate and ended up not actually competing, not that that makes it any better. he had to practice alone, stay in an offsite hotel room alone, and was not allowed in the Olympic Village, so at least he was denied the 'Olympic Experience' he so desperately wanted. he basically just sat and stewed in a hotel room for two weeks. which honestly makes the decision to bring him along even more inexcusable, because, like, you clearly considered him enough of a danger to his fellow athletes that you essentially locked him in a closet for the duration of the games, so why the gently caress did you even bring him in the first place? there's plenty of male fencers in the US, surely you could have just selected another alternate. Mister Bates has issued a correction as of 07:28 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Feb 9, 2022 07:21
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XMNN posted:https://twitter.com/NATOpress/status/1491792022125961222?t=y_cPcCEsL_0syGqNkRfxEw&s=19 three of these four countries have smaller populations than the state of Oklahoma that isn't really relevant to anything, it's just funny
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Feb 10, 2022 21:39
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has anyone in here seen How Yukong Moved the Mountains? is it any good?
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Feb 11, 2022 01:43
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once about four years ago, a friend of mine who works as a land surveyor had car trouble while out on a job and needed me to come pick him up. he gave me the location I needed to drive to and it was in the middle of nowhere, as expected. the GPS took me out on a cracked and broken asphalt two-lane, through this ghost town with two businesses left on main street, one of them a gas station. as I got closer and closer to my destination the road got more and more broken-up and overgrown, and it became less and less obvious where it even was, and eventually it just loving...stopped. the GPS said it continued on ahead, but to me it just looked like a field of dense grass, any trace of the road totally gone. poking out of the grass ahead of me was a faded sign that read 'THESE ROAD IMPROVEMENTS PAID FOR BY COUNTY SALES TAXES'. apart from that, there was no evidence there had ever been a road there. I was able to turn around and find another route that took me to where I needed to go, but anyway, that's always what I think of when people say places have bad roads. come to Oklahoma sometime, I'll show you some fuckin bad roads
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Feb 15, 2022 08:17
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