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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

VIDEO: It’s Not Against the Law to Be Crazy in California, However . . .

Posted on | October 16, 2015 | 111 Comments

. . . a sheriff’s deputy in Imperial County, Calif., made a traffic stop and arrested the driver. The female passenger evidently was not a licensed driver, and so the car had to be towed. When the deputy asked the passenger to exit the vehicle, however, she began to rant crazily about her status as a “free inhabitant” under the Articles of Confederation (???) and shenanigans ensued:

Let me explain, for the benefit of any fool who doesn’t understand, what this squeaky-voiced crazy woman did wrong. The man with a badge is called “law enforcement” for a reason. There is a law, and his job is to enforce it. As a Roman centurion said to Jesus, the policeman is “a man under authority” — he is answerable to his superiors, who are responsible to officials elected by the people, whose authority he exercises by proxy. A good officer is sensible of his duty, and is therefore scrupulously fair in upholding the law. There are bad cops, and there are also bad situations where even a good cop may make a mistake. However, the law-abiding citizen has no reason to fear the police, and there is no reason why any honest person should exhibit the kind of hostility toward law enforcement that results in an angry confrontation like this. We may summarize the proper protocol very simply:

  1. Every citizen must obey the law.
  2. At the moment a citizen is confronted by a police officer, the officer is the law, for all practical purposes;
    therefore
  3. Do what the officer says.

Comply with the officer’s orders. Keep your hands where the officer can see them, and do not make any sudden moves. He’s got a pistol on his hip, and he’s got a wife at home praying that he comes home alive, so if you do anything that a police officer perceives as a threat to his safety, guess what? You lose. And we may add this to proper protocol:

4. Never try to lecture a cop about your “rights.”

The cop has been trained in criminal law, and if there is one thing that every experienced cop knows, it is that anyone who starts yammering about his “rights” is an obnoxious dirtbag who deserves zero tolerance. Whatever the situation, anyone who takes the kind of chip-on-the-shoulder attitude where he starts in on a “rights” lecture is going to be charged with everything the cop can plausibly charge him with. He pulled you over for a busted tail light, and maybe it would have been just a warning or at most a $50 ticket, but you want to imply the cop is violating your “rights”? Well, buddy, you better not have a dime bag of dope or an empty beer can anywhere in your car.

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.”
— Romans 13:1-2 (KJV)

Watch the video again. Notice how the deputy is polite, but firm? Notice how he keeps his cool and talks reasonably to the crazy lady? This ain’t his first time at the rodeo, my friends. An experienced cop is a sort of expert in behavioral psychology. He knows that crazy people can’t handle the polite, reasonable approach, so he just gave the crazy lady enough rope to hang herself — impeding an investigation, resisting arrest, etc. All she had to do was to comply with the deputy’s instruction to get out of the car and she could have walked away, but she chose to escalate it into a confrontation she could not win.

The majesty of the law is a beautiful thing to behold, really.

(Hat tip: @ulisesjorge on Twitter.)





 

Category: Crime

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | October 16, 2015 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

Gorgeous day for a picnic in Shenandoah. Daughter Shiela had brought along Flavius, the hipster boyfriend, oscillating between boredom and superiority. “Look at the bee on the Lobelia cardinalis,” he intoned with his best innocent condescension. Fumbled with his iPhone. “It’s trying to do something with the network, but we don’t have any bars!” his tone regressed to about age four.
I picked up the venerable Polaroid. Came in at just the right lighting angle. Snapped a gorgeous photo.
That was the end of Flavius in our lives. Hipsterosity crippled, he was autistic the rest of the day. Thanks, Polaroid!

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

If I Hated Women …

Posted on | October 15, 2015 | 45 Comments

. . . I’d write something misogynist like this:

One important thing to remember in life: Do not coddle women. Do not do their work for them. Do not perform uncredited labor for them, including intellectual labor. Do not bend over backwards to help them. Do not tell them they are good at things they are bad at. Do not smile at them when you don’t want to. Do not laugh at their terrible jokes or stroke their egos or let them think they are better than you when odds are good that they are almost definitely not. Do not even deal with women whose presence bothers you when you can get away from them/when you aren’t regularly forced to be near them for things like work. Do not include women in your life who don’t deserve to be in it any time that you can avoid it at all.

Except that’s a feminist blog post, and all I changed was to substitute the word “women” where she wrote “men.”

UPDATE: Here is another Tumblr feminist who supplies a list of “Pseudo-intellectual Pricks,” the basic point of which is that any man who disagrees with a feminist is an arrogant idiot. The purpose of this listing is to encourage women to disregard any criticism offered by any man, period — epistemic closure, whereby everything men say is automatically invalidated.

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Marxist Lesbian Feminist Mother Forces Son to Write Essay About Misogyny

Posted on | October 15, 2015 | 65 Comments

Heather McNamara has a Tumblr blog and describes herself thus: “Literature enthusiast, feminist, marxist, queer theorist, lesbian, egomaniac, mom.” At her personal Web site, she adds that she is “a lesbian mom partnered with the lovely supergenius Zinnia Jones. . . . I’m finishing my degree in English with a focus on technical writing with a minor in writing and rhetoric at University of Central Florida.” (You can click here to see “the lovely supergenius Zinnia Jones.”) The other day Heather McNamara posted this on her Tumblr blog:

A few years ago, my son asked me if he could play GTA on his xbox. I told him that when he was old enough to write an essay on misogyny and its effects on society then he could play. A few days ago, he came to me and told me he’d been watching episodes of Feminist Frequency and felt that he was ready to write that essay. His stepmother, @zjemptv? and I came up with a list of questions. His answers, transcribed below (spelling errors corrected):

1. What is misogyny?
Misogyny is for men to think they’re better than women and they abuse women to show their dominance but that just make them look like jerks. If this is put into games too much, women would think it’s horrible and start hating the game. For example in Mass Effect you could slap the mean news lady. That equals to misogyny.
2. Give 3 examples of misogyny in video games that you’ve seen played on YouTube
In GTAV you do anything but if you shoot only women that counts to misogyny. Another example in video games is like wrestling. Some games allow you to beat women up in wrestling games. In any game that has misogyny some history events sometimes have women abuses in some games you can rape in those games that have misogyny.
3. Why might these examples of casual misogyny in video games be correlated to real life interpersonal violence toward women?
It’s probably a bad thing to rape women either in real life or in games. If a child is doing that in games it could teach them wrong. Imagine a dimension where misogyny switched places! It could be opposite but by the way rape nd abuse is all the way totally wrong.

So, should I let him? 😉

Inflicting this kind of feminist brainwashing on a boy can only be understood as an act of deliberate sadistic cruelty.

This poor child will probably never recover from the soul-destroying effects of exposure to his mother’s hateful anti-male ideology.




 

Category: Sex Trouble

The Death of a Whore

Posted on | October 15, 2015 | 91 Comments

Pippa O’Sullivan, a/k/a “Grace Bellavue.”

In December 2012, “Grace Bellavue” published an article at an Australian feminist site about her wonderful career as a prostitute:

It is often the moment after sex, even with clients, that I relish the most. The vulnerability and nakedness as two strange humans with temporary paths entwined begin to hesitantly trade life stories, knowledge and experience.
This moment is why I do my job with joy, gratitude and amazement.

This “joy, gratitude and amazement,” her readers were expected to believe, was why she campaigned for the legalization of her “job.”

Crazy, you say? Then you anticipate the latest news about this famous Australian prostitute:

Pippa O’Sullivan, the Adelaide sex worker who went by the name Grace Bellavue, has died after a long battle with mental illness.
The 28-year-old escort, writer and decriminalisation campaigner is believed to have taken her own life after posting a message on her Facebook page in the early hours of Monday morning.
The status update revealed a dark frame of mind and prompted an outpouring of concern from Pippa’s friends.
But the messages of support tragically fell on deaf ears and Pippa’s family has confirmed she passed away shortly after posting the status update.
“As you can see, Pip was dealing with issues that in the end overcame her,” mother Lyn O’Sullivan wrote. . . .
Pippa O’Sullivan was an outspoken advocate for the decriminalisation of sex work, which is illegal in South Australia, and took a stand against stigma surrounding the trade.
“Decriminalisation works,” she told the New Statesman in 2013.
“It allows sex work to be socially contextualised and regarded as a valid profession to be afforded the same human rights as workers in any other job.”
Pippa made headlines in 2013 when, as Grace Bellavue, she became the face of a new trend of escorts marketing themselves on Twitter. . . .
The New Statesman published an in-depth interview in 2013, which charted her early foray into the industry, working in a brothel from age 18. In 2011, she struck out on her own as an independent escort, working from an apartment and marketing herself online. . . .
“We still have a lot of stigma, judgment and backbiting due to the nature of our profession,” Pippa is quoted as saying. “But social media has given sex workers a real opportunity to be heard.” . . .
More recently, she revealed her struggle to work while battling mental health problems in a Facebook post on October 12.
“To all my regulars who have kept me in the black to survive and keep a roof over my head when I’m going through extreme burnout, I can’t express my appreciation,” Pippa wrote. . . .
Pippa had been violently attacked by a former client, a paroled rapist, at an Adelaide apartment in 2012.
Her death came as a coalition of former sex workers launched a campaign for specialised mental health support catered to workers in the industry, and those who have left it, or want to do so.

Pippa O’Sullivan lived the life of a whore and died the death of a whore. The idea that her “profession” should be legalized belongs in the same dung-heap of bad ideas as the assertion that we should end the “stigma” of prostitution. There is a reason what prostitution is both criminalized and stigmatized, namely that becoming a whore is a very bad career choice, insofar as a whore has any choice at all in the matter.

The reality is that most whores come from abusive families and/or broken homes. They are also usually addicted to drugs and preyed upon by pimps who coerce them into prostitution as teenagers. Anyone who thinks there is any “glamour” to prostitution is ignorant, and has paid no attention to the ugly reality of a whore’s life.  Prostitutes typically exhibit a pattern of dysfunctional, anti-social and self-destructive behavior that makes them unable to hold a regular job or form healthy relationships. A whore is generally stupid, lazy and dishonest. Becoming a “sex worker” isn’t so much a choice for women like Pippa O’Sullivan as it is the only kind of “work” they are willing or able to do.

What a sad and strange commentary on our culture that it is now controversial to say something as obvious as, “Don’t be a whore.”




 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

Feminist Tumblr: ‘Broken People’

Posted on | October 14, 2015 | 169 Comments

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She describes herself on Tumblr as an “economics student” and “vegan bi sexworker” who is “neurodivergent,” which may or may not be a synonym for crazy. She lists her diagnoses as GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and MDD (major depressive disaorder), although elsewhere she also lists BPD (borderline personality disorder). She is a one-woman DSM, basically — a living catalog of psychiatric symptoms. Here, let’s consult Wikipedia:

There is a neurodiversity movement, which is an international civil rights movement that has the autism rights movement as its most influential submovement. This movement frames autism, bipolarity and other neurotypes as a natural human variation rather than a pathology or disorder, and its advocates reject the idea that neurological differences need to be (or can be) cured, as they believe them to be authentic forms of human diversity, self-expression, and being.

In order words, these people aren’t crazy, they’re just “diverse,” and it is oppressive — a violation of their civil rights — to expect these kooks to behave like normal people. They are certified Special Snowflakes™ and how dare you judge them? Society must accept these “authentic forms of human diversity,” and if their “self-expression” takes the form of becoming tattoo-covered bisexual prostitutes posting nude selfies all over their Tumblr blog, only a hateful and intolerant bigot would criticize this “neurodivergent” behavior.

Normal (“neurotypical”) people can never criticize the neurodivergent Special Snowflake™ but she is always free to criticize us:

Women Are Doing Something That Isn’t Catered
To My Sexual Arousal and I Am Afraid:
A Tale for the Modern Heterosexual Male

What was she referencing by this? We don’t know. However, notice that she attributes fear to “the Modern Heterosexual Male.” The neurodivergent are qualified to diagnose the shortcomings of others. She has anxiety and depression, and this qualifies her to assert that normal men are afflicted by fear of women. Feminist Tumblr is full of women like this, who proudly list their mental illnesses in their profiles — thus to establish their credibility as victims of society — and who then proceed to identify the various failures of normal people.

“If you want to understand feminism, begin by studying abnormal psychology,” as I explain on page 18 of Sex Trouble: Essays on Radical Feminism and the War Against Human Nature. Feminism is an asylum, and the lunatics are running it. One of the pioneers of feminist theory, Kate Millett, “had serious mental health issues,” according to her sister, and was “a brutal sadist, a violent bully.” Another feminist pioneer, Shulamith Firestone, was a paranoid schizophrenic who spend decades living on public assistance. Crazy women like Jaclyn Friedman, who declares her “right to be wild” and go “down and dirty with strangers,” continue to be celebrated as feminism’s heroic leaders.

Once you recognize the influence of mental illness in shaping feminist ideology, you find yourself nodding in agreement with Professor Glenn Reynolds: “I’m beginning to think that most lefty movements are just about broken people trying to manipulate the rest of us so they can feel good about their broken selves.”

Indeed, the “broken people” are everywhere now, piling up like debris scattered by a storm or a flood. Decades of societal breakdown — accompanied by a cultural decadence that celebrates divorce, bastardy, prostitution and every imaginable perversion as expressions of “diversity” — have produced a generation of young people who lack the ability to form healthy, normal relationships. The “broken people” demand that society be further re-structured to accommodate their depravity and helplessness. School children must be taught how to negotiate sexual consent, because there are no longer any moral customs to regulate sexual behavior, nor are any of these feral youth capable of romantic sentiment, having been raised in a godless carnival of cruelty devoid of anything that might plausibly be called love.

A man found unconscious in a Nevada whorehouse turns out to be a former professional athlete once married to a member of a family of perverted celebrities. The only reason anyone ever heard of Lamar Odom is because he played basketball and married a Kardashian, yet his apparent drug overdose in a brothel is national news.

The only way to prevent yourself and your children from being swept downstream in this flood of wickedness is to avoid any contact with the “broken people,” including the weirdos in Hollywood and the feminist freaks who spew evil madness on the Internet.

Really. It’s important not to take any chances.




 

 

Category: Sex Trouble

In the Mailbox, 10.13.15

Posted on | October 13, 2015 | Comments Off on In the Mailbox, 10.13.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Owing to the fact that the extension deadline is Thursday, and I have tax classes in the evenings this week, there may not be another post until Friday. We’ll see how it goes.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hare We Go
The Political Hat: Folk Metal Is Now Problematic
Da Tech Guy: This Is How You Tell Blue State Media From Red State Media
The Camp of the Saints: For The Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, A Hearty Huzzah!
First Street Journal: The Obama Administration And The Gutting Of Our Military
Michelle Malkin: Feminist Fabricator Lena Dunham Rides Again
Doug Powers: Ramp Up The Fear Mongering! New Study Says Miami, New Orleans To Be Underwater Soon Thanks To Global Warming
Twitchy: Egg White Privilege – WaPo Reports That The Rich Enjoy Better Breakfast Sandwiches
Conservative Intel: Actually, Things Aren’t That Bad In The House – Yet


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: So, Looting Is Legitimate Political Protest?
American Thinker: Americans Void Of Critical Thinking Skills
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Vince Flynn’s The Survivor, A Mitch Rapp Novel By Kyle Mills, also, Slaughterhouse
Conservatives4Palin: Democrats Could Sink Lower In Statehouses In 2016
Don Surber: WV Democrats Embrace A Welfare Coal Billionaire
Jammie Wearing Fools: Chicago Has Deadliest Month In 13 Years, President Gun Control Nowhere To Be Found
Joe For America: Ben Carson Agrees With Joe The Plumber On The Holocaust And Gun Control
JustOneMinute: Another Awkward Hillary Moment
Pamela Geller: German Authorities Playing Down Refugee Shelter Sex Crime Reports
Protein Wisdom: Attention Everyone! Tacos Are Now Culturally Offensive!
Shot In The Dark: From The Late Joel Rosenberg
STUMP: Calpers And The Benefits Of Public Pensions – Things Seen And Unseen
The Gateway Pundit: Jeb And GOPe Busted – Bush Staffer Planted In Audience, Used To Attack Trump
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Columbus Wasn’t English
The Lonely Conservative: Administration Bans Pork Products In Federal Prisons
This Ain’t Hell: McHugh Warns of “Thinly Stretched” Army
Weasel Zippers: National Security Advisor Susan Rice Blames Syrian Civil War On Global Warming
Megan McArdle: The Centerfold Dies So Playboy Man Might Live
Mark Steyn: The Uncowardly Lioness


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Category: Linkagery

Essential Feminist Quotes: ‘I’ve Gone Down and Dirty With Strangers’

Posted on | October 13, 2015 | 38 Comments

Left to right: bell hooks, Jaclyn Friedman, Heather Hlavka.

“Feminist movement to eradicate heterosexism — compulsory heterosexuality — is central to efforts to end sexual oppression. . . .
“Feminist movement to end female sexual oppression is linked to lesbian liberation. . . .
“Feminist efforts to develop a political theory of sexuality must continue if sexist oppression is to be eliminated.”
— bell hooks, Feminist Theory from Margin to Center (2000)

“I’ve gone home drunk with someone on the first date — scratch that, the first meeting — and f–ked sweaty until 2 a.m.
“I ‘lost’ my ‘virginity’ at age fifteen and haven’t had the decency to regret it. . . .
“I’ve gone down and dirty with strangers on a crowded dance floor. I’ve played quarters with the wrestling team. Once, I had sex with my girlfriend in a barely hidden doorway. . . .
“And I hereby declare my right to be wild and still maintain my bodily autonomy.”
— Jaclyn Friedman, “In Defense of Going Wild,” in Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (2008)

“Coming up against ‘the wall of patriarchy’ . . . early adolescence is a defining period for young women. Many regard harassment and violence to be a normal part of everyday life in middle and high schools . . . yet most of these crimes go unreported. . . .
“Feminist scholarship . . . consistently finds that traditional gender arrangements, beliefs and behaviors reinforce women’s sexual subordination to men. . . .
“Young women overwhelmingly depicted boys and men as natural sexual aggressors, pointing to one of the main tenets of compulsory heterosexuality. . . . Male power and privilege and female acquiescence were reified in descriptions of ‘routine’ and ‘normal’ sexualized interactions.”
— Heather R. Hlavka, “Normalizing Sexual Violence,” in Gender Through the Prism of Difference, edited by Maxine Baca Zinn, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael A. Messner and Amy M. Denissen (fifth edition, 2015)

Everything is connected in feminist theory, and who am I to question or criticize these eminent women? If feminists declare that heterosexuality is a synonym for oppression, and insist that “lesbian liberation” and “a political theory of sexuality” are central to their movement, I will simply take their word for it. If I am told that exercising a “right to be wild” is essential to feminism, I believe it. When feminists declare that middle-school boys are beneficiaries of male privilege, so that girls encounter “the wall of patriarchy” as soon as they get to sixth grade, I feel obligated to publicize this claim. Indeed, I want the whole world to know the whole truth about feminism’s “theory of sexuality,” because for too long the feminist movement has succeeded by exploiting a widespread ignorance of what feminism actually is, and what feminism actually demands.

Everything that most people consider normal, feminism condemns as wrong. To the feminist, “normal” is a synonym for “oppressive.” This is why, for example, Jaclyn Friedman uses quotation marks to signify her feminist belief that “virginity” is a patriarchal concept — a social construct which oppresses women — and that chastity is not a virtue, whereas going “down and dirty with strangers” should be celebrated as an expression of “female sexual power.” To disapprove of Friedman’s bisexual promiscuity is to oppress her because, as Heather Hlavka explains, “traditional gender arrangements, beliefs and behaviors reinforce women’s sexual subordination.” If you are a parent who wouldn’t want your daughter pursuing her “right to be wild” in this manner, then you are oppressing your daughter, infringing her “bodily autonomy,” and reinforcing her “sexual subordination to men.”

This is why I call feminism a War Against Human Nature. Once we get past the superficial rhetoric of “equality” and “progress” to examine what feminists actually believe — the movement’s esoteric doctrine — we recognize feminism as a sort of political bait-and-switch scam. The idea of feminism as a “mainstream” reform movement that everyone should support is impossible to reconcile with the radical program of social revolution that feminist theory envisions. Feminism requires eradicating “traditional gender arrangements” and constructing a sort of Brave New World in accordance with “a political theory of sexuality.”

 

When the average person sees pop singers like Beyoncé and movie stars like Emma Watson promoting feminism, of course it is not this radical ideology that comes to mind. The bizarre agenda envisioned by feminist theory is far beyond what the average person could possibly imagine, and yet this agenda is widely embraced by intellectuals within the academic Feminist-Industrial Complex of university Women’s Studies programs.

It is not just a few obscure “fringe” extremists who are promoting this ideology in our educational system. Thousands of Women’s Studies professors on hundreds of campuses are involved in teaching tens of thousands students annually. The book Feminist Theory From Margin to Center is an assigned reading in many courses, widely cited in feminist literature and excerpted in anthologies. The textbook Gender Through the Prism of Difference, published by prestigious Oxford University Press, is edited by four professors — Maxine Baca Zinn (Michigan State University), Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Michael A. Messner (University of Southern California) and Amy M. Denissen (California State University-Northridge). Professor Hlavka, who sees teenage girls victimized by “the wall of patriarchy,” is a professor of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. And the anthology Yes Means Yes, in which Jaclyn Friedman celebrates going “down and dirty with strangers,” helped inaugurate the “rape culture” hysteria that has swept over college campuses. Jill Filipovic recently explained:

Friedman, Valenti and other feminist bloggers became regulars on the college speaking circuit, bringing feminist ideas about consent (among other issues) to campuses across the country. In the meantime, feminist blogs grew larger, and many feminist writers transitioned to larger, more mainstream outlets. Other large media platforms saw the popularity of feminist-minded content and were quick to either hire new writers or give the long-time feminists on staff — of which there were already many in media — more space to shine. The feminist pipeline began to pump further and further out, and it seemed like overnight the F-word was everywhere.

Promoted on campus and publicized by the media, radical feminism has gained “mainstream” status without much critical examination of what “the F-word” actually means. Does it mean “lesbian liberation”? Getting drunk and having sex with strangers? Eradicating “traditional gender arrangements”? All of the above? And what would the world transformed by feminist theory look like? We need not think of these questions as hypothetical speculation, if we follow the daily news:

Well, not every teacher is having lesbian sex with her students, but if “early adolescence is a defining period for young women,” as Professor Hlavka says, and if “the F-word” is now everywhere, as Jill Filipovic says, what do we expect? If feminism aims to end the “sexist oppression” of women by “compulsory heterosexuality,” as bell hooks says, then doesn’t it make sense that “a political theory of sexuality” should be taught in public schools?

Last week, California became the first state in the nation to require lessons about sexual consent in high school sex education classes. The legislation mirrors laws passed last year mandating colleges and universities in both California and New York apply an “affirmative consent,” or “yes means yes” standard when investigating campus sexual assaults.
“California must continue to lead the nation in educating our young people — both women and men — about the importance of respect and maintaining healthy peer and dating relationships,” Assemblyman Rocky Chávez said. . . .
“We are very concerned that we are seeing a move toward consent being the arbiter of whether or not teen sex is appropriate,” said Valerie Huber, president of the National Abstinence Education Association. “We think that is a disservice to our teens and it also ignores all the scientific research showing young people are much better off both now and in the future if they don’t have sex.”

Yes, obviously, feminists want to teach sexual consent in high school because “yes means yes.” So your daughter can learn how to get “down and dirty with strangers.” Or maybe her teacher.

You can say what you want, but don’t say you weren’t warned.




 

Category: Sex Trouble
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