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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

NY Times just casually dropped that the official U.S. intelligence assessment has always been that Putin didn't want to expand the Ukraine conflict beyond Ukraine

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NY Times just casually dropped that the official U.S. intelligence assessment has always been that Putin didn't want to expand the Ukraine conflict beyond Ukraine

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/politics/us-bases-alert-level-russia.html

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  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Even the US’ intelligence apparatus is a bunch of Putin shills now

    But seriously, no shit lmao. Did libs really think Putin was gonna try and pull an Ögedei Khan and try to take Europe?

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      They literally think the Russian brainpan is incapable of comprehending democracy due to them assimilating Mongolo-Asiatic authoritarianism genes in the time they were under Mongol rule so probably, yeah.

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        I heard literal this take ex cathedra in university in Poland. 30 years ago.

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          Damn. I haven’t heard this one in uni but I had a professor who was casually peddling Spengler and some other sus figures.

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        Missed all the fun being out for the evening. I just want to inform you that I am not even exaggerating for comedic purposes that much, here is a random video found by typing “mongol influence on russian culture” on google and clicking the video tab. It features bangers such as “It has been several hundred years in their genetic inheritance that authoritarianism is the only solution”.

        https://youtu.be/5F45i0v_u6s?t=234

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          I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

          • yewtu.be
          • inv.nadeko.net
          • yt.artemislena.eu
          • piped.video
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          go on, how are we delusional

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            Lol, this guy’s entire post history is just him popping into random Hexbear threads to tell us how stupid he thinks we are and then refusing to engage anyone because he thinks we’re too stupid for it to be worth his time. A very serious intellectual.

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            Have you read the comments in here? Lmao where do you guys come up with this nonsense?

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              be specific

              if you’re referring to the specific thing about Asians (and Russians in particular) having some inherent desire for authoritarian figures, I have personally seen this idea in the book Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman.

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                Oh, man, I hate Vasily Grossman. Life and Fate is on my shortlist for most overhyped book ever.

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                  I actually kinda liked Everything Flows, the first half at least. The second half descends very quickly into incoherent anti-Russian/Soviet rants but the vignette about the Old Bolshevik being sent to the labor camp was very moving.

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                Replying to a comment is not specific enough an example for you? Do you think I’m referring to a random comment in a different post or something?

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                  Okay, so what about the comment do you take issue with? Do you not believe it is a widely-disseminated idea in the west that Russians & Asians are inherently predisposed toward authoritarianism?

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                  if you’re referring to the specific thing about Asians (and Russians in particular) having some inherent desire for authoritarian figures, I have personally seen this idea in the book Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman.

                  Is this a good enough reply? Why not engage with that part of their comment?

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              Like you’ve never heard a harebrained pundit draw a line through the tsars, the evil Soviets, and Putin to conclude “these people simply can not know our enlightened values”

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              Have you read the comments on reddit-logo?

              It got so bad the mods banned using ‘Orcs’ as the term to refer to Russians with in the early days of the war. And many redditors cried about that.

              We can argue the semantics of what exact type of dehumanizing language was used, but the overarching point remains.

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                Why in the world would I poison my eyes by going to that sub? Or even reddit at all.

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                  Then what’s your complaint here, exactly? People are shitposting and being somewhat hyperbolic, but a lot of liberals have considered Russians subhuman morons since at least the beginning of this war

                • Black_Mald_Futures [any]@hexbear.netBanned
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                  Why would you need to go to reddit when you could just browse your own post history

                • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                  Why would you show up here just to talk shit?

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              Could you be more specific? Our asiatic brainpans don’t handle vague, nonspecific insults well.

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                Don’t be stupid.

                • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                  Don’t be vague.

                  Air your specific objections so we can respond to them or get ready to get pig-poop-balled.

            • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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              at least attempt a specific criticism instead of just being vaguely contrarian it’s annoying

              • PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee
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                Start with comment I replied to, Einstein.

                • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                  Here’s director of the NATO Defense College Florence Gaub saying Russians have no concept of individual choice and are fine with early death

                  Is that a good enough example for you, Di Vinci?

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                  oink oink snort snort

                • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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                  Start by replying to the people who have already given you ample sources, Shapiro

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            • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.net
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              please give us your answer for who you think is responsible for the NordStream 2 bombing so we can laugh at it

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                Why would you think I care about that?

                • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.net
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                  laughing brings joy into the world

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              I don’t see why anyone is even bothering engaging this person with good faith. They’re just “trolling” the same way people did back decades ago. Adding “lol” or “lmao” on to everything to pretend they’re not upset, not reading anything, calling everyone stupid no matter what is said, always saying “I’m sitting here laughing at you” to again pretend they’re not upset. They all ended up being incels and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is no different

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            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              Hello I’m a fellow good german liberal and I don’t want to be infected with commie nonsense, can you point out the nonsense please so I can avoid it?

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          just ban these delusional trashlib already, after countless attempts at engagement all this idiot has ever done is smugly laugh and pretend he’s smarter than everyone else.

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      I particularly love the fact that libs simultaneously believe that Russia is on a brink of collapse and about to roll over Europe as soon as it’s done with Ukraine. They see no contradiction there.

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        The enemy is both very strong and very weak at the same time.

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      Did libs really think Putin was gonna try and pull an Ögedei Khan and try to take Europe?

      Yes. You should see the bullshit the European media keeps shoveling.

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        I barely even read any Polish media since 2022, they went into high gear of being unbearable and keeps at it ever since.

        • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Brought to you by the party of PiS!

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            It’s completely identical under PO. Russophobia is universal in Polish public spaces.

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              The Poles, PiSsing and POoing, smdh my damn head.

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              Being elevated by the USSR and the People’s Republic really made their fascists mald didn’t it?

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                Yes, we got propelled to modernity by socialism and they will never forgive it for that.

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      Did libs really think Putin was gonna try and pull an Ögedei Khan and try to take Europe?

      They did unironically think that, yes.

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      Did libs really think Putin was gonna try and pull an Ögedei Khan and try to take Europe

      they definitely do here in europe

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      in February of 2022 Biden said that he was trying to reestablish the Soviet Union.

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        He has also said that he is proud to have been the first black woman to serve with a black president.

        In general, I would not associate Biden with the word ‘intelligence’.

        And yeah, no, if Putin was trying to reestablish the USSR, he would be much better than he is. An anti-colonial power that massively improves its people’s lives? Sign me up.

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          same, i would’ve moved to Russia if that were the case

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          I wasn’t referring to his commentary on intelligence, I was referring to his commentary on “the libs”

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            Considering that Biden is a lib, your reply, at best, supports the comment that you were replying to.

            Furthermore, you seem to think that this point about Biden somehow contradicts the fact that ‘NY Times just casually dropped that the official U.S. intelligence assessment has always been that Putin didn’t want to expand the Ukraine conflict beyond Ukraine’

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              I didn’t comment on the post to refute it, I replied to a comment to refute the comment. that’s how threads work. anyway

              comment: “Did libs really think Putin was gonna try and pull an Ögedei Khan and try to take Europe?”

              me: this lib certainly said he thought so.

              that’s how conversations work.

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                He also said he’d seen photographic proof that Hamas had decapitated 40 babies.

                He also said he would cure cancer, I am not joking.

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                  go on

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                this lib certainly said he thought so.

                Most of us are pretty skeptical he actually did think so, especially considering a lot of experts in his circle have said things that contradict it. Case in point: the article being discussed.

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                I didn’t comment on the post to refute it, I replied to a comment to refute the comment

                And all you did is support - not refute - the comment. Just as I said here:

                Considering that Biden is a lib, your reply, at best, supports the comment that you were replying to


                comment: “Did libs really think Putin was gonna try and pull an Ögedei Khan and try to take Europe?”
                me: this lib certainly said he thought so.

                Case in point.

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                  jesus kid. I’m out. good god

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        He also managed to mumble this out during the debate a week ago, too. However, we can’t be sure Biden even knows what year it is, so it’s unclear if he still believes this hilarious lie or if he thinks it’s 2022.

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        sicko-wistful

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      Ögedei didn’t even tried to take Europe, it was a really big scout party which casually obliterated every army they encountered, arrived at Hungary, seen the pushta and considered staying because it reminded them of home and then went back because khan died and new one had to be elected. In the meantime collective Europe was thrown into a state of abject terror not known since Attila the Hun. But of course as soon as it passed, islamophobia kicked in, they started to blabber about Prester John and tried to use Mongols against muslims.

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      Its one of the excuses they use to keep sending weaponry

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      baltic mindset, i’m waiting if that lady will outbang the gardener

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    Still not as embarrassing as angular-merkel admitting the Minsk agreements were all just to buy time for Ukraine.

    The original narratives about Ukraine no longer matter, the only thing left in the collective consciousness is Ukraine is a democracy therefore the war is about “western values”. The good thing is since then even a good part liberals don’t care about that anymore, its impossible to manufacture a narrative that Ukraine is winning right now, at best they “resisting” evil Putler and Zelensky does nothing but beg for more aid.

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      The Western media’s admission of the deceitful nature of their narrative exposed liberals, who mindlessly parrot the same talking points despite the revelations, as nothing more than gullible buffoons.

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        I don’t think liberals could have had a worse week. The cracks in their dome are apparent and aren’t going away. Some people are checking out, some people are saying “enough” to the constant stream of bullshit right to their faces. /R/politics is a hoot right now.

        But do they change anything about their approach? Of course not.

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          I expect that at some point the whole house of cards is going to come crashing down.

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            i might have thought so a few years back but now i feel like there is no end to their ability to mental contortion and gymnastics

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              I mean, for them to stop believing in their ideology, they’d have to find something else to believe in. What would that even be? Most of them are probably innoculated against ideas left of Mussolini due to the constant government programming happening on reddit, so they’d either become anarchobidenists and believe 95% of the same things by saying to themselves “anarchism is when you hate authoritarian governments (read: governments who are resistant to being totally rolled over by American monopolies) and love western democracies. who the fuck is kropotkin? gelderloos? I’m listening to a 3 hour video essay by a breadtuber”

              or, I guess, they’d turn even further conservative and/or libertarian and start frothing at the mouth about the federal reserve and age of consent laws

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                In my observations on Libs, I think the biggest challenge for them is that they fundamentally trust the institutions that govern our society. In order to believe in something else, they would have to break that trust on a fundamental level. But that trust underpins their entire worldview, so in doing so they would not only have to fundamentally alter their core values, but also in doing to have to admit that they have been wrong about everything their entire lives. That’s a pretty tall order.

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              I’d argue that mainstream libs represent the segment of the population that still hasn’t been significantly affected materially. They still have their jobs, they can pay their bills, and there really hasn’t been any dramatic change in their lifestyle. They also tend to stay in their bubble avoiding interaction with people who are struggling. This segment of the population is rapidly shrinking though, and we can see them starting to freaking out that their voices are increasingly challenged nowadays. It’s a huge shock for them that their narrative can’t spread unchallenged.

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          They’re gonna continue to childishly point fingers at everyone else. “All the mistakes I have made and continue to make are because of the chyna-ruzzia-woke-tankie-bots”

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    No, it was always this way. We always knew this. The way the government is admitting things are is the same as what they’ve been saying all along. Your left-wing views always make you say paranoid stuff like this. This is not an unexpected departure from the official line. The only people who were trying to scare us about how Europe could be invaded next were misinformed marginal figures, not the actual authority figures who always had a reassuring firm grip and level gaze toward reality. If it were really a big change then someone would make a big deal about it, and I don’t see anybody making a fuss.

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      lol who told you that

      “He has much larger ambitions than Ukraine. He wants to, in fact, reestablish the former Soviet Union. That’s what this is about.” -President Joe Biden, February 24, 2022.

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        he trotted this out at the disastrous debate last week too. blows my mind the kind of bullshit people can tolerate

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          this isn’t even about tolerating, this guy just completely made this claim up that no Democratic leader claimed Putin wanted to go beyond ukraine. and people just upvoted them without even looking at it

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            lol you sure about that bud?

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                Okay you’re having a lot of trouble so I will help you out here: my initial comment was sarcasm or parody or whatever you want to call it.

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                  It was a joke bro!

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                This might end up a site tagline.

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                  I don’t know, why are you deleting your comments?

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            You might want to check out the hidden gem eighteen fourty nine by JoJo Joestar.

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        Modern liberal USSR is super cursed lmao

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      :19::84:

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      Reminds me of the Bush defenders who pretended his administration never said Saddam had a hand in Sept. 11.

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      I wish I could be amused my lemmy liberals taking this seriously

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    The shit about world conqueror Putin reached my, decidedly non American lib parents. This shit is bananas

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      truly

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    If you use an ounce of critical thinking it was always clear NATO wants a war with Russia, not the other way around.

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      To be fair, if you use an ounce of critical thinking then you stop being a liberal.

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    Yeah, no shit. These pathetic eu-cool vassals don’t care though, they’ll keep throwing money down the pit of “increased defense spending because NATO wants it”.

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    Yogothos post with 100+ comments, hell yeah

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      zoidberg salute 2

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        I serve the Soviet union

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      Is that how you read it? In my head their username is “Yog-… Is that even an o? y- ahhh fuck it, the cosmonaut”

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          I thought they were letters from another alphabet or something, had no idea they were just another font.

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            It’s the thing where similar-looking letters are taken from other alphabets to make fancy looking letters. The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it’s lowercase Sigma.

            Ironically, given Yog is a Russophone and people do this with Cyrillic all the time, much to the chagrin of those who can read Cyrillic.

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              A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.

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                Captcha: Type these letters (and its just ones, capital I’s and lowercase l’s in that font where they all look the same)

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              The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it’s lowercase Sigma

              As a person with a math degree (meaning that I’m an expert on the Greek alphabet), I confirm, that is lowercase sigma.

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        Death to America

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      lmao any day now

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    More like the Niu York Times

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