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Maltnothops's avatar

OT: Happy Birthday to me.

ETA: I normally don’t care but I just got passed over for a promotion for a position which I doubt anyone could be more qualified for. 30 years of experience. So fuck them.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Happy Birthday, other than that. Get an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.

Sorry ‘bout the promotion.

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cdbunch's avatar

27 years of experience. I just got my first actual promotion. Anything else that management might call a promotion was just a title change. This actually came with a raise. (Still about 15k less than the average for the position in the area. But a boss that doesn't make you crazy is worth a lot.)

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jomicur's avatar

You're buying pizza for the site!

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cdbunch's avatar

It wasn't that big a raise. I'm still robbing my savings to stay current.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Yes, but Domino's.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

As long as it's not Little Caesars.

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cdbunch's avatar

I'm broke, not homicidal.

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Mr.E's avatar

hope I am never that broke again that I have to eat at little sleezesars

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Speed Rabbit for me.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

The vibrator?

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

What's the point of having a vibrator who will come before me ?

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RegularJoe's avatar

Congratulations on your successful completion of yet another lap around Ol' Sol!

(Sorry about the promotion.)

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painedumonde's avatar

Yes, may they search for a climax but never find it!

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Matri's avatar

Yikes, talk about an inhumane curse!

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cdbunch's avatar

The zeitgeist would have me believe that most straight men are so clueless that such a curse is most straight women's reality.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

I know the feeling – you can't compete with the boss's nephew. So fuck them indeed.

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Sandra Carmen Marrujo's avatar

My birthday was the 21st. ;0) Now 78. I guess I'll save the shock for 80. Happy Birthday.

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Maltnothops's avatar

Happy belated birthday.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Best Wishes!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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Theresa's avatar

Happy Birthday! Sorry about the promotion ☹️. Definitely sounds like you should have had it.

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Whitney's avatar

Happy birthday!

I've recently heard about some companies refusing to promote from within; it's a stupid policy that will drive talent away from the company but they're doing it. Sorry to hear you got hit by the corporate shenanigans.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Our company had a big design project last year. There's basically two software choices (MicroStation and Autocad), we mainly use MS but a couple of us have been working to pick up Autocad enough to at least have basic competency. For whatever reason, the company decided the project needed to be done in Autocad and instead of letting us start to work through it, they hired someone else who was supposed to be an expert in both. While a bit disappointed that we wouldn't be working on the design, we were at least looking forward to having someone who could maybe help us learn a few things about the two programs and working between them. Well, as it turned out, the guy was a octogenarian (nothing specifically wrong with that) who seemed to be out half the time with health issues. It quickly became apparent that he really had no idea what he was doing and not only was unable to finish the design, but was actively screwing up the portion we had done previously. A couple months in, he showed up one day, told someone "Fuck it, I'm out," and left. Budget and schedule completely blown, we had to start almost completely over. Good times.

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Grant Jackson's avatar

Sorry for that. If you're well experienced take that experience and find a company that needs and values it. Now seems to be a good time to make such a change.

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Maltnothops's avatar

I’m looking!

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Lynn James's avatar

Here's wishing you a ton of luck!!!!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I'm 8 hours late to this. Hope it's still your birthday where you live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs5vUfddkT8

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Lynn James's avatar

Happy Birthday and sorry to hear about the promotion. I know how that feels (happened to me, I trained a guy for a job similar to mine, then watched him get promoted over me to become my supervisor a year later).

It isn't fair. It's shitty. It sucks. But I hope it didn't entirely ruin your birthday for you.

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Maltnothops's avatar

Two jobs ago I trained a guy and he became one of my best friends. Then he became my manager. Then a couple years later he was ordered to let me and several of my colleagues go. He was so broken up by that our friendship ended. Which bothered me so much more than losing my job.

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David Graf's avatar

Could it be that you're being discriminated against on the basis of age? I've seen that happen. Sorry about what happened to you.

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Maltnothops's avatar

I’m pretty sure that is it.

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oraxx's avatar

“But we do share the same Christian values that this nation was founded on.”

This shows how little Vivek Ramaswamy actually knows about this country. That this country was founded on Christian values is a favorite myth of the religious right. The U.S. Constitution doesn't say that, and you would think it would had that been what they were founding the country on. The founders expressly banned religious tests for holding public office in this country, and anyone who puts their religiosity forward as something that qualifies them for office, is unfit for that office by definition.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Ha! You took the line that I was going to feed off of. Anyway, it's likely that Ramaswamy KNOWS that the Constitution is a secular document. 𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘, mostly because he's playing to a crowd that doesn't care, either. The blunt fact is that he has no more chance to garner the Republican nomination than any of the other candidates have that aren't Trump. The GOP has so utterly sold out to that charlatan that it would take a cataclysmic event to alter that status.

And I for one am not holding my breath, waiting for such an event.

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Len Koz's avatar

Unless one of them drops dead between now and then, it's Biden versus Trump again. And should Biden prevail again, please, oh merciful FSM, then Trump's moronic followers will attack the Capitol again, and this time I think they will be armed with their favorite automatic rifles, along with explosives and probably a bazooka or twelve.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I don't think so. January 6th was a trick that only works once, sure as hell now that Biden is in the front seat. Any attempt at Insurrection 2.0 will likely be met not just with Capitol police, but the National Guard, positioned and prepped well before anyone gets to the Capitol steps. Fact is that Trump has called those same people to protest about his indictments, and that has been a wet firecracker from Square One.

I'm not saying it won't happen. It COULD, and it could be bloody as hell. Thing is, the circumstances have changed, as I stated at the top of this comment. I just think that the final outcome won't be much different, except that MAYBE some MAGAdiots may get the message that insurrections ain't the way to bring change.

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Matri's avatar

It may be a trick that only works once, but MAGAts were never the brightest fork in the electrical outlet to begin with.

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Psittacus Ebrius's avatar

Many of the 1/6 rioters are sitting in Federal prison because they believed TFG's messaging was a call to arms. TFG denies any responsibility or wrongdoing as usual.

Maybe the next batch of moronic followers will reconsider.

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wreck's avatar

But then they would not be morons, but they can't help themselves.

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NoOne of Consequence's avatar

Maybe, but I expect less of a concerted group effort, it didn't go great last time. What I think is more likely is a whole bunch of lone wolf attacks, mass shootings, bombings and such. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there are a bunch of Trumpista militias preparing right now.

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RegularJoe's avatar

They have been for quite some time. Since Dotard the Disgraced Orange Shitegibbon came on the scene, they're happily crawling out from their CAFO lagoons trying to get us to accept their toxicity as the new normal.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

Over 500 have been sent to prison, others are being arrested as they are found, and all but one of the Proud Boys were convicted (the one guy says he was just doing security).

Several have blamed Trump for leading them to prison and many have complained he hasn't lifted a finger or spent one dime to help any of them. Although a lot of Freedom Caucus members like to fundraise for their campaign chests by "defending the January 6th political prisoners", none of them have stepped up

I doubt there will be a repeat of January 6th.

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wreck's avatar

Never underestimate the stupidity of a MAGAT.

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Matri's avatar

It's a bottomless well of infinite stupidity with them.

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RegularJoe's avatar

Should the Trumpistani hords get...uppity...again, I think trAshli Babbitt will be joined by quite of few of her fellow CAFO lagoon denizens.

As an aside, it's far cheaper to dispose of a terrorist carcass than it is to prosecute and imprison them.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

I thought that. It's just a form of words you have to use if you're a conservative candidate for anything.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

He's just dogwhistling at himself for them- he's got to let them know that he hates himself as much as the white supremacist base hates him, if he wants to get anywhere in the GQP. "I'll admit it, I'm not a Christian- but I'm 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 ashamed of myself for it! See? I know my place like a good little religious minority!"

Look for similar statements about how racial minorities are the real racists in the near future, if he hasn't already made a few.

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cdbunch's avatar

If they weren't talking about racism, there would be no racism. If nobody points it out they can pretend it isn't real.

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jomicur's avatar

Civics? Actually teach Civics classes--and require students to know something about their government before they graduate?! But they find that boring. Let's give them more pep rallies for the school's sports teams. Pulling together to support things that don't actually matter. That'll teach them what's really important! That'll teach them to be good Americans!

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cdbunch's avatar

My civics class was taught by a coach. (Has to teach something to be on the faculty, but his actual job is coach, teaching is his fig leaf)

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cdbunch's avatar

End sports in school. City funded leagues after school would be appropriate. (Since without school funding, some kids who wanted to play couldn't (and some very talented kids would miss out on developing their talent))

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

We have both and it works. We also have schools specialised in sports*. A girl in my boarding school was in one of those, she had to switch school for a couple of years but still followed the (regiment ?) like she was still there.

* The most famous is Clairefontaine for football, PSG I think.

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cdbunch's avatar

regimen, a rigid, difficult, most likely daily, routine to condition and tone ones body. Also used to describe a course of medical treatment.

regiment: a division of soldiers.

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Holytape's avatar

As a freedom-loving conservative, I really am a bit conflicted about Vivek's candidacy. On one hand, I really like his stance of having a penis and being rich, but on the other hand, I am just not comfortable with his stance on the acceptable allowance of melanin in the skin, and having names that are hard for me to pronounce. And while as a freedom loving American who believes in democracy, I do strong support his plan to disenfranchise everyone who doesn't think like we think, I am a little troubled that he is allow to vote in the first place. Did he even pass the literacy test? Just looking at him, there is something about the way he looks, that doesn't look presidential to me. So while I do like his stance on women, queer people and people who are not me, not having the same rights as me, I think I will support a different candidate here on the white. I meant right.

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Len Koz's avatar

You're an all white guy. ;-)

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Remember that old expression – "that's mighty white of you"?

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Holytape's avatar

How true. I can hide in a snow storm. I get sunburn at night. I know all the words to the beer barrel polka. I can go to a whole foods and not be followed by security.

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Matri's avatar

You're so white you make mayonnaise look dark?

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Holytape's avatar

So white, I call mayonnaise "the spicy devil sauce". So white, I consider flour a spice. So white that I make Mike Pence look off-white.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Whiter than Mitt Romney in a blizzard.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

So white it makes vanilla ice cream go "Daaaaaaamn!"

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Holytape's avatar

So white, Vanilla Ice accuses me of copyright infringement.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

So white, sour cream looks like beef gravy in comparison.

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Maltnothops's avatar

Brilliant!

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larry parker's avatar

Jesus traveled to India and wrote the Bhagavad Gita, just like he wrote the US Constitution.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

He discovered that none of his disciples understood the language any better than he did, though.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"What the country needs is to be "put back under God."

This country's government is a secular one, Smith. It's never been under your god. The key founders insured that we would keep church and state as far apart as possible; that we would not be under the thumb of your imaginary dictator in the clouds.

The only time we were ever under your god was in the century prior to becoming the United States. It was then that Christians ruled in the British Colonies. A time when they persecuted one another. The founders saw that and wanted no part of it.

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Holytape's avatar

But to tell the truth, God's more of a bottom. Sure he's all wraith and domination in public, but be hind closed doors, it's a different story. So really, if we want to please God, we need to put the country above and behind him. And maybe Canada in front, too.

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Karl Straub's avatar

Yes to your point comparing Ramaswamy and Haley. He’s one of them, and she isn’t, because the real religion is angry grievance.

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Len Koz's avatar

No, no, she can't be president. She's a woman! Can't have someone irrational as the commander-in-chief, she might start WWIII!

What do mean, "Trump's nuttier than a fruitcake...?"

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RegularJoe's avatar

It's the hormones, apparently.

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wreck's avatar

And having blood coming out from her wherever.

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Maltnothops's avatar

Every woman in the vicinity of Trump should look directly at him and say “it’s that time of the month.” That would keep her safe.

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RegularJoe's avatar

I believe the technical term is 'ladybits'.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

They forget that men also go through hormone changes in middle age. My dad bought a Corvette, my uncle bought a sailboat. Some men head to the gym or get into cycling (my brother :D).

RFK Jr, at age 70 and on his fourth wife, is still going through his midlife crisis.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

If something were to happen to President Biden during his tenure in the White House, guess who becomes POTUS? You can hear the screams from the GQP at the very thought of it.

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Len Koz's avatar

I almost wish for it to happen just so I can see MTG's head explode a la "Scanners".

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Less an explosion, more a slowly deflating balloon.

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XJC's avatar

Jewish space laser alert.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

I see lots of comments on Fox about people wishing something would happen to Biden and also realizing that Harris is next in line. I haven't seen the claims recently that Biden was installed so he could quit and give Harris the presidency.

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cdbunch's avatar

Yes. And the Senate will refuse to confirm her nomination for a new VP. The SS will have their hands full.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Seems to me the Senate would have to violate the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to do that. The VP automatically assumes the Presidency.

There's also the separation of powers to consider.

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cdbunch's avatar

The Senate has to confirm her nomination for her VP. IIRC correctly that was how Ford became president. Nixon's first VP resigned and Ford was appointed and confirmed and then when Nixon resigned Ford became president.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

LBJ simply placed his hand on a bible on Air Force One and was immediately sworn in. No confirmation hearing.

Same with Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt. To the best of my knowledge, none had a confirmation hearing before they became President after the assassinations of their predecessors.

If an assassin's bullet were to take Biden (especially if it looks like he was going to beat Trump again), I'd think Harris would be sworn in immediately with no confirmation hearing.

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Matri's avatar

Palpatine: I *AM* the Senate!!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"Is that legal?"

"I will MAKE it legal."

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

I’m not entirely sure he didn’t choose Harris specifically to protect himself from assassination. I am sure that if Trump had half a brain cell he did the same with Pence. Not that there are that many folks on the left that would have tried it even if his VP were more desirable, though it’s not out of the realm of possibilities.

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cdbunch's avatar

Somewhere along year 3 I'm sure many were tempted.

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Whitney's avatar

This is precisely why I'd personally like to see the Dems run a Kamala Harris/Katie Porter ticket for the 2024 election. The right-wing antics would be hilarious.

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jomicur's avatar

The thing is, nothing matters to them quite as much as hatred. If someone hates the same people they hate, they'll hold their noses and get behind him/her, at least till someone more acceptably straight, cis, white and christian comes along.

Clarence Thomas is tainted by too much melanin in his skin, but hey, he agrees with US and does what he's told. Ben Shapiro presumably doesn't give much of a fuck about Jesus, but hey, he hates the same people WE hate, doesn't he? Ramaswamy worships all them funny-looking gods and goddesses, but he wants to keep women, LGBT people, leftists and immigrants in their place, so... Any port in a storm, as long as it's a not-bigoted port like us (nudge nudge wink wink).

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cdbunch's avatar

But they love everyone. They love everyone so much they have to save us from hell, even if they have to beat us to do it.

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RegularJoe's avatar

It's our *sins* that they hate.

Having never sinned, I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. 🤔

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jomicur's avatar

You've never sinned? Man, you're missing all the fun.

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RegularJoe's avatar

Not at all. Sinning is something that doesn't pertain to me.

(Crimes, OTOH....

😉)

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jomicur's avatar

Stop by some night. I'll be happy to teach you how wrong you are. (Assuming you're not really a walrus, that is. You'd never make it up the steps to my apartment.)

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larry parker's avatar

Coo coo ca choo.

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RegularJoe's avatar

I'm really more yellow matter custard these days. 😉

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wreck's avatar

“wokeism, climatism, transgenderism, gender ideology, Covidism,”

So another rethuglican with no actual ideas or positions to solve actual problems. Just like the rest of those useless boils on the butt of the country.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

On Covidism alone, I saw a Washington Post article in my newspaper this morning titled:

"Study: Vaccine politics may be tied to GOP excess deaths."

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wreck's avatar

Maybe if they had more assault rifles they could have defended themselves.

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Len Koz's avatar

Was a study necessary to figure that out?

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

You need to find new subjects, even the most absurd one, to keep the money coming.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

You'd think it'd have been obvious.

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cdbunch's avatar

Yeah, but hard data is still useful.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

True.

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Matri's avatar

When has evidence ever mattered to the Right?

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

There are those that claim the excess Republican deaths had an effect on the last election. I don't know, but I'd like to think so.

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Len Koz's avatar

Can we continue the trend?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

GOP seems happy enough continuing that trend themselves.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

That's the one.

My heart bleeds purple Kool-Aid for these Redpublican know-nothings.

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Lynn James's avatar

The country already can't sit down because of all those boils on its butt

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I favor "Rethuglikkkan."

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NOGODZ20's avatar

What part of Article 6, Clause 3 of the US Constitution is unclear to you, Christians?

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

The part where it doesn’t confer unearned respect and power on them for being in the right clique.

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RegularJoe's avatar

It's about our Founding FATHERS and their *Original Intent*! They were ALL Good Christians™! That part was about not picking just one Christian denomination.....Because Jesus!

(Apparently they had a well-endowed creator or some such.)

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Marilyn Lemons's avatar

No, they were not all Christians.

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RegularJoe's avatar

Sorry, obvious snarcasm isn't always obvious. 😉

See also: Poe's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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NOGODZ20's avatar

RJ was snarking to beat the band. Gotta know the players here. :)

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

“I wish the U.S. women would come out and say the reason why we excel is because of America’s embrace of human rights for women in a way that the rest of the world has yet to catch up to.”

-Clay Travis

Only third world countries treat women worse than the USA does. Women’s soccer has had to fight tooth and nail to get remotely close to the same finding the men’s team has, and the women’s team outperformed the men’s in all metrics for years. USA Women’s sports overall is underfunded, under-equipped, objectified, under watched, and regularly disrespected in the media. The anti-transgender panic has a long history of attacking cis-women just as vehemently as any trans women, and the racism inherent in both is palpable. I recently just saw a meme that was pretty much saying the only reason to watch women’s sports (soccer particularly in this meme) was to Jack off to it. It was a picture of a man in bed with his shorts at his ankles and a roll of TP at the ready with the tv on the women’s soccer game.

Where do we want the world to emulate us? Take away their healthcare, abortion access, birth control? Send their girls home from school on the regular for distracting the boys or creating a difficult work environment for creepy teacher for some random dress code violation? Tell the women to get back in the kitchen and make you a sammich while also shouldering the load of the majority of the work in the service and hospitality sectors? Not to mention teaching, daycare, elder care and nursing. Oh, how about eliminating no-fault divorce so they can’t get away from abusive husbands. I mean, right now the right has got its sights set on interfering in pretty much every aspect of women’s lives right now. I wonder which countries are looking to the USA as inspiration? It’s not any that would be worth visiting anytime soon.

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Lynn James's avatar

The US treats women so great I am contemplating moving to another country if I can.

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cdbunch's avatar

I had much the same reaction, though I'm not as familiar with the specifics (likely because they don't affect me directly)

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Lynn James's avatar

After reading that right-wing drivel, I feel a primal scream coming on.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

"Women exist, they ought to be able to compete in their own sports.”

I agree with this statement I just have another definition of women.

America’s embrace of human rights for women in a way that the rest of the world has yet to catch up to.”

dobbs.

In 2021, a team from a minor league protested the inequality between them and the men's teams in the same league by coming on the field without shorts. Men are given complete outfits, women only the shirts. I imagine what the reaction from right wing nuts would have been.

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cdbunch's avatar

Black and white thinking, if you don't think America is the greatest nation on Earth, you hate America. They can not fathom someone who loves their country and acknowledges that it falls short of its stated goals.

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cdbunch's avatar

If I ever move out of the country, it won't be that I left the USA, it will be that the USA left me.

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Bensnewlogin's avatar

Well, my comment disappeared.

As I have often said to Christian fundamentalist subject to my participation in society has a gay man, and all because of the religious faith…

Why is it that I can reject the entirety of fundamentalist Christian belief, and this bothers no one but the most rabid of believers? But let me say that I am gay, and just reject this itty-bitty little ditty that they sing about the importance of faith, and certainly, their religious freedom and western civilization or under assault, and they are going to be crucified or have something shoved down their throat...

Even when they're not down on the knees in the restroom at the local quickie mart.

All this goes to show is that this is all about power and money. Not faith. Not freedom, not anything except for power and money.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

I think this anecdote fits here, it’s not really on topic but it is not completely off topic, but it applies to how they perceive their Christianity.

Yesterday, as I was leaving work, my attention was drawn to an older pickup truck, it was beat up and it had that constant whining noise older vehicles that aren’t well maintained get, that’s why I noticed it. Anyway, this truck parked on the street and I had to drive past it to get home, the guy driving it got out and walked slowly across the street to the massage therapy place. As I passed the truck I noticed a nice new bumper sticker on the tailgate that said “I can’t be Christian and pro-choice”. My first thought was, then don’t be Christian. But that’s me.

The idea that pro-choice excludes Christianity is funny, considering we all know verses that support killing fetuses in utero, or the one in Numbers that is an actual abortion recipe. Then I realized that these folks may not know about them, but if they’re at all active in the pro-life (forced birth) movement, they are aware of these verses. And then I realized the verses do not actually support women’s choice at all. They’re all stories about how men decide whether the woman is worthy of carrying a pregnancy to term. These women are not worthy because they live in a land that doesn’t worship Yahweh, that woman is not worthy because shes been accused of cheating, women never choose for themselves pretty much anything in the Bible. So, yeah, the Bible doesn’t support the pro-life movement in its claims that it is about protecting the babies. But it doesn’t support the pro-choice argument of bodily autonomy of women. We all know the pro-lifers are just about controlling women’s bodies. Just like China pressures women to have abortions with their one child policy is the same as pressuring women to give birth to all the pregnancies no matter the circumstances.

So the Christianity of these folks is about power and control and even money. It is never about compassion, humanity and caring.

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cdbunch's avatar

Wherever did you get the idea that Christianity was about compassion, humanity, and caring?

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Some guy quoted in the Bible somewhere. I think.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I don't know if you are talking about China past or present policy about children. China operated a 180 and now pressure women to have children (up to 3).

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

I’m aware China has changed its stance. I was talking about its past one child policy. But the current is just as restrictive, it doesn’t take the actual person’s desires or needs into consideration regarding family planning.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

There is an example of this in Poyun. An intern cop is pressured by her family to quit, marry and have children because she is getting old, her superior (in his 30's and unmarried) is outraged, the rookie is 20 to 22 years old, and goes into a rant who can be shortened as "build your career first, then and only then you will have your choice of potential partners who aren't afraid of a strong woman".

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Bensnewlogin's avatar

You are absolutely correct about that. It's all about power, money, and control. I was watching a series on Amazon called Carnival Row. It's actually pretty good, and a thinly disguised allegory about racism and immigration.

One of the female characters was talking to another woman, who is one of the main people. The former one was talking about how men put women behind the bars of their opinions. and then object mightily when the women object to the bars that are on the cages. I thought that this pretty much describes the situation, just as you did. Some people just have to make rules for other people to conform with her own expectations of those other people, and those rules have nothing to do with the lives of the people they expect to conform.

As a gay man, I feel exactly the same way, and the dialogue resonated with me. Most of what I hear coming from so-called Christians about gay people has nothing to do with the lives of anyone I know, but everything to do with power and dominion.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

I have watched Carnival Row, and definitely see the immigration and racism allegory. There’s even commentary on passing as an approved person.

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Bensnewlogin's avatar

What I find really interesting is the mix of different colors and races of the actors. That to me is one of the most damning things in the series. They have no problem at all with different skin color, interracial(by our standards) relationships, and so on. The problem comes when human and all of the various species of fae interact.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Nope. No. Nuh uh, no way, fuck off with that shit.

Look, men walk away from parenting all the fucking time. They get to decide whether to be a parent or not no matter what happens to the pregnancy. They aren’t experiencing the pregnancy, birth or abortion, only the child rearing. Making women get an abortion is exactly the same thing as forcing them to give birth. It is controlling someone else’s body. It’s forcing medical procedures on an unwilling person. If a man doesn’t want to be a parent, he can leave, he’s been able to leave since the beginning of humanity. And men have always done so. And somehow it’s always the woman’s fault for whatever happens.

Parenting and abortion are two different subjects. Sure they are tied together, but they are not the same thing and have vastly different considerations. No. No, men cannot tell women to have abortions just so they can get out of parenting. Just admit you’re a shit person and walk away from the relationship and child, but you do not get a say in another person’s medical decisions.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"Well, my comment disappeared."

If you are posting by "Top First," it does that. Post by "New First" and you'll see it immediately.

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Bensnewlogin's avatar

I did that. It just disappeared. It also asked me the login again. And provide a profile all very annoying.

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jomicur's avatar

That's what you get for choosing that lifestyle.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Me, I get Likes I give people erased so I have to go back over the comments and reaffix them.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

I hear he was born in Kenya...

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larry parker's avatar

Worse, he was born in some unpronounceable city called Cincinnati.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Baby, if you've ever wondered,

Wondered whatever became of me,

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larry parker's avatar

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

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Len Koz's avatar

That, the Russian telling Les "Hold me closer, tiny dancer", and Johnny Fever having better reflexes the more he drank, are my top 3 favorite moments from that show.

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larry parker's avatar

Booger!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I remember the episodes that took a dramatic turn, like the one about what happened at the Who concert at the then-Riverfront Coliseum where 11 people were trampled to death. Or the one where they were taking on Christians who didn't like the station's rock format and were doing their very best to censor them and get them to censor themselves.

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Lynn James's avatar

🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣

I remember the very first time I saw that episode...I almost fell off the couch laughing.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I'm livin' on the air in Cincinatti

Cincinatti WKRP

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Old Man Shadow's avatar

Well, Pence is a betrayer because he didn't break the law and enact the coup.

Haley is a woman. Conservative Evangelicals are nothing if not misogynist.

Vivek isn't one of them, but he's willing to be beholden to them. That counts. As does his penis.

DeSantis refuses to pitch why he's a better choice for them than Trump and has the charisma of an ill-mannered Orc.

Trump is charismatic like a con artist tent revival healer preacher. He hates all the "right" sort of people. He's vulgar enough to wallow in cruelty and pride. He's everything they wish they were.

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Matri's avatar

Except Trump is charismatic ONLY to the reich-wing deplorables.

To sane people he's actually repulsive.

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Lynn James's avatar

"He's everything they wish they were."

Not only that, he has normalized cruelty and pride. His minions can now gleefully (even literally) stomp all over people they hate and no worries about the law.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

OT- Evidently not satisfied with crashing his convoy, Florida Man #2 decides to crash his whole campaign: https://apnews.com/article/desantis-staff-cuts-republican-presidential-campaign-trump-b331a18c583bd6eb379b56cb957aa025

Previous reports on cuts to Deathsentence's campaign staff turned out to have been wildly understating just how thoroughly fucked for cash everybody's most unfavorite fascist is. Turns out, he's now shitcanned a third of his staff, with more to likely follow. Is he even going to make it to the primaries, at this rate? Or is he destined to slink back to Tallahassee with his tail between his legs, just in time to get another spanking from The Mouse?

I'm gonna go make some more popcorn...

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Whoever in his campaign staff manage the funds must have learn from elon musk 🤔

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

They were a jazz fusion group with Phil Collins on drums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_X

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I think you missed something.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Pronounced "Echs!"

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NOGODZ20's avatar

I used to buy those when I was a young 'un. That first issue was the best. I could not stop laughing.

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Lynn James's avatar

👍

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cdbunch's avatar

Can Florida's citizens recall him?

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Lynn James's avatar

If only....!

But then, Florida is so full of crazies who crawled out of the woodwork to swarm all over anything GQP, it wouldn't matter anyway. Not enough sane people to outvote the batshit loonies. Throw in gerrymandering and voter suppression....

SIGH.

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cdbunch's avatar

Apparently not. Only 19 states allow recalls at the state level. Neither Florida nor Texas are among them.

https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_in_Florida

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Marilyn Lemons's avatar

#1. Our Constitutional Democratic Republic was NOT foundered on Christianity. 2. Religion, doesn't matter which one, has no place in our government, neither does their mythical god(s). 3. People who come from countries where they are oppressed or second-class citizens and then raise their children to become as radical as the leaders in the countries they have left should have stay in their country. No, I am not anti-immigrant, but I look at the Cuban community in Florida, this guy, and others and what is happening in Israel right now and this seems to be a pretty common trait. Republicans like to say they are voting for these people because they feel left out and have grievances they want address. It seems to me, most of their grievances is one big one, they want everyone to believe in Christianity and follow the rules of Christianity whether we like it or not. Many of these folks like Pence, Haley, DeSantis and Ramaswamy are getting on what they believe is what most Americans want, mainly because that is what they listen to and read about day in and day out. Most Americans haven't bought these kinds of nonsense and hate in the past and they aren't going to buy it now. President Biden will be re-elected.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

The primary grievance of Republicans is that the power is slipping away from them. More specifically, it's slipping away from OLD WHITE MEN. They see Barack Obama and Kamala Harris and Hakeem Jeffries and they fundamentally freak out at the thought that their power and privilege and position aren't so much being taken away. More like evolving away from them.

They're scared shitless about that. And we may find that they'll do anything to stop it.

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Marilyn Lemons's avatar

Only one comment they are not all OLD white men.

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Len Koz's avatar

From your lips to the Invisible Pink Unicorn's ears.

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Holytape's avatar

If Jesús didn't write the constitution then explain this.

https://www.bagofnothing.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CapturePaintingOneNationUnderGod.JPG

Also explain this..

https://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5b631d491982d837008b4987-1400/crossing-the-swamp-frames.jpg

No seriously, I can figure out what the fuck the painter was trying to say, other than "Fuck Boat Safety Rules."

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

If Duck Dynasty and The Apprentice had a baby.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Reading the first paragraph or two, I was thinking Ramaswamy would just have to pull a Shapiro or Prager to be accepted in the GOP, and look at that, he did.

Look dude, the Nazis still murdered the Jewish folks that helped them get power, no matter how close they were personally. Not just the Jewish people, but the LGBT people, and the other targeted groups. It didn’t matter once the power was grabbed, who was there to help grab it, if you were a part of the hated others, you were dead. The leopards eat faces, they don’t care whose face they eat. Being close to them only brings you closer to the danger, it does not protect you from it.

If you think that way he worst thing in the world is being “woke”, ie. aware of the ugly reality around you, then you’ve got another think coming. I don’t want to say you deserve what will come for you if you and the GOP succeed, but I’m gonna protect the innocent before I protect you.

You will not get very far politically, that’s just a fact. Romney only got as far as he did because of his money, and there are still some things money can’t buy in the GOP.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

A thing to ponder, nazis killed nazis.

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Lynn James's avatar

Like the Night of the Long Knives, that purged the Nazi ranks of "undesirables."

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