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May 12, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Generation F**ked: How We’re Downloading Truth and Uploading Revolution

Generation F**ked: How We’re Downloading Truth and Uploading Revolution

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Because when I do this, there's a...
I play it back, there's this gap.
Even though I wait a second, I get the gap.
Happy Mother's Day, everybody.
Let's weigh in.
Come on, everybody get up.
Let's see.
We have zero watching.
Let's see how long it takes.
24 seconds.
Let me see if we have one.
I like to see just when I surprise people with this.
There we go, one!
33 seconds for our first, I don't know who our first person was, but there they were.
Our first person.
There we go.
Larry Summers.
Larry says, wow, you're up late.
Now, Larry, Larry, I know you're a good person, but you probably didn't know this, Larry, but let me fill you in.
On Saturday and Sunday morning, this is technically Sunday morning, what am I saying?
I am...
Doing my radio show from WABC.
That's why I'm here.
I go on from 2 to 5 a.m.
And I suggest, I invite you, import June you to watch at your leisure.
And I am doing this, so before I started at 2, I normally say, okay, let me, right now it's 1.13 or something like that.
And that's why I'm talking to you.
This is the precursor to the morning show.
It's completely different.
Completely different mindset.
And when you do more and more of this, it takes on a completely different texture.
Does that make any sense to you?
I was watching this piece on David Chase.
And he was talking about the Sopranos and things about the Sopranos.
Well, one of the things I love the most about I hope everybody's groovy.
Let me say, first, a happy Mother's Day to all of these.
Wonderful, grand, and beauteous people who are a part of the world that we live in.
Does that make any sense to you?
It's a part of the world that we live in.
And I want to just say thank you to the mothers of the world in particular.
And also, I want to say this in a way that is not meant to be sad, but I find it nonetheless fascinating.
Women who wanted to be mothers but can't or didn't or whatever or maybe you didn't get married.
Not that you have to get married but normally that's the routine.
I'm very interested in terms of things and feelings that propel people to be mothers and that sort of thing.
I find it fascinating.
I was looking at the story of what Mother's Day, the history was.
Did you know this?
That there is a global celebration.
Let me try to hide this so you don't see my...
See if I can hide this.
It's the glare off my glasses.
Sorry about that.
Never buy glare-proof glass.
If you ever get glasses, never buy that glare-proof stuff because it cracks and it's not good.
Mother's Day, as celebrated today, has a history rooted...
You probably didn't know this.
Ken, you see the cars in the background?
This is Midtown.
I like that look.
You know what I mean?
There's a lot of activity.
I just went by a place on 57th Street right around 6th or so.
I don't know what it was, but lines down the street.
I'd love to see that.
Mother's Day, as celebrated today, has a history rooted in both ancient Traditions and modern reform movements.
Did you know this?
Did you know anything about this?
I'm going to try something interesting here.
Let me see if I can do something.
I'm going to try something.
I want to see if I can...
Oh, here we go.
Let me see, new.
There's these little gadgets I like to buy, which are very interesting.
And let me see if I can get something here.
Let me try this.
Talk amongst yourselves in just one second, if you don't mind.
I don't want to be rude, as it were.
Let me see.
Send a copy to here.
And let me see if I can.
Does that make any sense?
Nope.
Hmm.
Let me try something different here.
Talk amongst yourselves.
I say that a lot.
That's that old Barbara Streisand thing.
Hang on here.
Edit here.
There we go.
There we go.
Alrighty.
Now we got something here.
Let me see if I can explain this one to you.
You're going to get a kick out of this.
I think maybe.
Maybe you will.
Maybe you will.
Maybe not.
I don't know.
But let me see if I can do this.
I want you to read this.
Well, here.
I did this wonderful little bit of...
Hang on.
Ah!
Here we go.
Mother's Day.
A global celebration.
I don't know if you know this.
By the way, 144 people.
Not too bad.
I have more people sometimes doing this than you can imagine.
Mother's Day is a global celebration with deep roots.
Mother's Day, as celebrated today, has a history rooted in both ancient traditions and modern reform movements.
The earliest known celebrations of motherhood.
Date back to ancient Greece and Rome, where festivals honored mother goddesses like Rhea, like Rhea Perlman, of course, and Cybele, or Cybele, C-Y-B-E-L-E.
In early Christianity, Mothering Sunday became a tradition in the UK observed on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
Look what this says.
Greetings from San Antonio.
My wonderful wife, Millie, loves your NYC walking tours.
Thank you!
You tell Millie, I love them too.
And I just think they're...
We'll talk about this in a moment, but let me just read this.
This is for Millie, but thank you, my friend.
The modern-day version of Mother's Day in the U.S. was spearheaded by Anna Jarvis in the early 1900s.
Following the death of her mother, Jarvis campaigned to create a national holiday honoring mothers.
Now, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially declared the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
Ironically, Jarvis later disavowed the holiday due to its commercial exploitation, which is true, which is true.
We tend to commercialize everything, whether it's religion or God or love or anything like that.
Today, Mother's Day is celebrated in various forms around the world.
In the U.S. and Canada, the second Sunday in May, of course, cards, flowers, and family meals.
The United Kingdom, Mothering Sunday in March, often marked with flowers and cakes.
In Mexico, May 10th is a national celebration with serenades, gifts, and mass.
In Thailand, celebrated on August 12th the birthday of Queen Sirikit, honoring both motherhood and the monarchy, Ethiopia, part of a multi-day festival tied to the end of the rainy season, blending traditional and familial celebration.
Across cultures, the day universally honors the sacrifices, the love and care of mothers.
Although the expressions range from heartfelt and humble to lavish and commercial, while the dates and customs differ, the spirit, I believe, of gratitude and maternal reverence is shared worldwide.
So, here's my question.
By the way, past Lionel's bedtime, in case you just tuned in, I...
I'm up early.
I go on live on WABC, the premiere, the monster, the mofo, AM 50,000-watt flamethrower in New York City, which is huge.
This is where I started here in New York in 1993.
Think about that.
So I'm not up early.
I do it.
Unbelievable.
Don't know what, Scott?
Not sure what that means?
Thank you so much for that.
The walking tour.
And by the way, happy Mother's Day to all mothers.
We need this.
Mothers are women.
Mothers are women and mothers do not necessarily have to.
Mothers can be grandmothers.
They can be adopted mothers.
People who take on a different angle.
I wish the same to my beloved Mrs. L. We always make it a point, and this is very, very important to understand.
As you've noticed, there's one thing that we have done.
We have deliberately made it a point.
We never, ever, ever introduce People in our world that do not knowingly become a part of this.
Family, children, relatives.
Never.
Ever.
It's a strict, strict rule.
And it's a very wise rule, I think, today.
Something that I think makes a lot of sense for people to stay away from.
So, to her...
I wish her this as well, because it's one of those things where it's very interesting.
Let me also ask, let me go back to what you said about the walking tours.
The walking tours I love because it is something that I think has such a sense of kind of a uniqueness, just walking, because it's just different.
And I like it.
And I love walking with you.
Where you get to see what I'm saying.
It's not about me, it's about me kind of commenting on stuff.
I just like it.
I can, you know, describe it all day long, but that's a waste of time.
By the way, please like this video.
It means so much to us.
Always like these videos.
It puts us into that realm.
I think what we do is one of the rarest things.
One of the reasons why?
Because I acknowledge you.
I don't sit there and just acknowledge every single person.
That would be terrible.
But I swear to God, I watch so many people, so many people who watch and do their things, and you know what?
I really don't.
I don't.
How do I say this?
I don't see them acknowledging the audience as much.
It's almost like they don't know it, or maybe they have a producer or somebody.
Maybe they don't even see the screen.
This is me.
I bought a little tripod here.
I put the phone in it, and that's it.
Don't have any producers.
That's it.
I'm the producer, so thank you for that.
My question is, what about women who never had the chance to be mothers?
And there's a sadness to that.
And I don't mean to make people feel bad, that's not the point of this, but to feel like, some people who say, I never had, I feel not unfulfilled.
But this isn't fair.
The idea of people who wanted to be mothers who cannot.
The people who want to be, but can't.
There was a place, we used to have an office, Mrs. L and I, in a building that would stop on various floors.
For some reason the elevators stopped on every floor.
I don't know why.
It was a rather busy place.
And there were three...
Three floors, at least, that were devoted to, I guess, maternity, fertilization, you know, that sort of thing.
And I've got to tell you something.
There's a friend, Christos.
I love him.
He's my brother.
From another mother, the honey man.
It's fertility and that sort of thing.
And the place is packed.
All these people are spending a lot of money, a lot of money to have children.
And they can't.
They can't.
For reasons that make really no sense to me, it's just not fair.
For reasons who...
Pardon me.
For people who...
And then you walk outside and there's a million people.
Then you go to Mexico City.
Mexico City's probably one of the biggest places on the planet.
It's like a million people in Mumbai.
How in the name, how is this fair?
And then there are people who should not have children because they're improper or they're crazy or they're drug-addled or they're stupid or whatever it is.
And they're as fertile as you can be.
There's no fairness to this.
And I know people who have spent their whole, and then later on in life, or they don't get married, and they have an adopted child, and they, I don't know.
Like Greta's parents.
I don't know what that means.
Again, I don't know so much.
I would love to take a lot of what you're, maybe I'm just not that smart.
Greta Thunberg?
Greta Van Sestren?
Greta Hansel and Greta?
What does that mean?
People will sometimes write something as though they're having a conference.
They're reacting.
They'll say, LOL.
LOL to what?
I've said 50 things.
LOL.
Ha ha.
Thumbs up.
How dare you know what I'm talking about?
LOL.
There's Scott.
Scott, everybody.
I love you, Scotty.
Are you saying she had great parents?
You brought up a very good point.
You brought up a very good point.
The role of...
And I love this.
The role of...
This is very good.
I'm going to make a note of this.
The role of parents of mothers versus fathers.
Let me ask you something.
Do you think that parents are responsible for their children?
I'm going to surprise people by saying...
They are responsible for less than you can imagine.
I need more likes, ladies and gentlemen.
I need more likes.
I need more people watching.
Wake up the kids.
Tell them to turn on their phones.
I think sometimes they take too much credit.
Let me tell you what today's topic is called, by the way.
By the by, which is important.
And I like this topic because, or the title, the title is important.
Not the topic, the title.
Sometimes the titles are.
Very important.
And this is...
Why do I say this?
Where is today's topic?
Let me see this.
Here we go.
Today's is called...
Let me see.
Videos, shorts, live.
This is live.
Oh, it's not up there yet.
It's called the EFT, I think, generation or something, where the information revolution, where we're going to fight the other versions of this.
Because we are a unique group.
I'm throwing a lot of stuff at you because I've been listening to David Chase talk.
I've been thinking about Art Bell.
I've been listening to this fellow named Dr. Sky who's very good.
He pre-sees me and I get to listen to him.
And he's talking about science.
So my head always has 10, 15, 20 things going at the same time.
And that's not meant to sound like, oh, I'm so complicated.
That's just the way I am.
I can't help it.
And it's just the way I am.
So I go from a million different topics.
I'm always thinking of a million things.
John says, I'm Lionel the Nightfly.
Hello, Baton Rouge.
Baton Rouge.
Welcome.
Welcome, my friend.
So do you think that parents are responsible for their kids?
I really don't.
Because for every kid that you know, for every kid that you can point to, for every kid that is...
Stupid.
Or terrible.
Or criminal.
Or whatever.
There are other kids who are born to the same situations who don't have any of the problems.
I want to bring something to your attention too.
You ready for this?
I'm a fly-by-nighter.
Don't know what it is though.
I like what you say.
Did you say ever meet Phil Hendry?
I certainly did.
And what do you think of his contribution to radio?
Absolutely genius.
What he did.
How he milked it.
Because once you understood what Phil did.
Is Phil still with us?
You are responsible for raising a kid, but there is free choice.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I think parents sometimes, parents take too much credit, too much blame.
Like my parents, growing up, I never did anything that I was a good kid.
I just...
They never told me to do anything.
I never...
I think I was just kind of hatched in a good way.
I'm not responsible for...
I just know the way I am.
I think my mother sometimes...
I think shaping is important.
Kind of shaping.
You know, your mother, by the way, is the first person you meet.
Let me throw something at you, too.
Let me change subject.
This is what I'm talking about today.
Dark woke.
Anybody hear of this?
Have you heard about dark woke?
Have you heard what dark woke means?
Have you noticed there is either a celebration, fair or unfair, of wild, out-of-control black women and people on social media in police stops, Chipotle, Riots and all this other kind of stuff for reasons that I don't really understand.
Have you noticed it?
Wilding, right, Wilding, remember that?
Jasmine Crockett is the white racist dream, by the way.
And the word racism, I'm not even sure about the word racism, but I love to talk about race.
I love the notion of race because it just drives people crazy, especially when you talk radio.
People love this app.
People love to talk about race and we watch it from afar.
Most of us have tangential connection with people of different races and cultures.
The only time we ever really do is maybe in work.
But we love to talk about the macro subject of race.
But the media glorify the radical, not the brilliant.
The media are responsible.
By the way, media is a plural noun.
The media are responsible for...
I need more folks watching.
Come on, everybody.
259-178.
I need more people liking this.
I'm sorry.
I hate to be like the Jerry Lewis telethon person here.
The number to call.
They fear articulate black leaders, so they elevate chaos over character to frame the narrative they control and weaponize.
Think that's true?
I think there's something to be said for that.
The more shocking, profound, or brutal the story is, I'm reviewing my notes, the easier it is to fabricate.
Outrage distracts us from profound scrutiny.
The bigger the emotional punch, the less people question.
Lies thrive best when cloaked in drama and horror.
So dark woke is a term used Often critically, to describe, if you will, a more militant, racially divisive offshoot of the broader woke world.
That makes any sense.
While woke originally referred to awareness of racial injustice and social inequality and that sort of thing, dark woke reflects a shift towards aggressive identity politics, resentment, Resentment-driven activism.
Look at the terms I'm giving you.
Resentment-driven activism.
And open hostility toward traditional norms, especially white people, law enforcement, or Western institutions.
Isn't that beautiful?
This is the greatest.
Now listen to me carefully.
What are the key features of dark, Woke.
I guarantee you most people are not talking about this.
And it happened upon this almost tangentially.
Racial essentialism.
Listen to this.
It sees race as the core of identity and treats individuals primarily through the lens of group power dynamics.
Race is not just some category or some description.
It is the primary focus.
Of your perspective.
Number two, a rejection of unity.
It opposes colorblind ideals or cross-racial solidarity, insisting instead on permanent struggle between oppressors and oppressed, and always perpetuating this theme.
There never is progress.
Nothing ever improves.
Nothing.
Number three, aggressive expression.
The normalization of profanity, mockery, and public confrontation as legitimate forms of resistance.
I'm doing air quotes.
Resistance or outrage.
Think about how perfect this is.
Think Jasmine Crockett.
Four, entitlement to rage.
This is the idea where they justify hostility.
Rudeness and even violence as moral responses to historical or systemic oppression.
This is part of it.
Number five, cultural inversion.
It celebrates behaviors once considered antisocial or unprofessional as symbols of authenticity or rebellion.
What might be considered...
Antithetical towards order is now considered authentic rebellion.
And number six, this is important, victimhood as power.
This is the Al Sharpton theory.
It leverages victim narratives for political or personal gain while rejecting accountability or nuance.
Oh my God.
Jasmine Crockett.
Throw in the word also, phony.
Inauthentic and the like.
This represents a vast minority of the entire population.
The vast minority of black, people of color, those who possess negritude, the culture, the class, whatever it is.
This is a minimum.
In short, dark woke isn't about justice.
It's about revenge, division, and Performative outrage.
Pretend where you are deliberately outraged in terms of your things.
It thrives on grievance, alienates the very coalitions that civil rights leaders once sought to build.
The increase in visible hostility among some black Americans, whether in politics or media or viral public incidents.
You see them all the time.
The riots and the fights, whatever you want to call it.
Isn't the result of a single cause, but rather a convergence, or as I love to call it, a concatenation, a series of vector kind of concentration of long-building cultural, political, and social dynamics.
And remember, there are other factors involved.
You probably never thought about this, but I love this.
This is my research.
Decades of institutional distrust.
Many black Americans harbor deep generational mistrust of government, law enforcement and media institutions.
I understand that 100%.
I understand it.
Number two, the rise of dark woke and radical or racial radicalism.
It's a subset of what some call the woke movement.
It shifted from calls for justice to open racial essentialism and antagonism.
Dark woke, the idea often rejects civility and embraces confrontation as a form of liberation or empowerment.
Listen to what I'm saying.
This is not just a bunch of rude people.
This is explaining, if you will, kind of this mob mentality, so to speak.
This oclocratic murmuration, for those of you who are probably talking into Starling Formation, Gustave Le Bon and others.
Number three, social media incentives.
Outrage and confrontation go viral.
Not we are the world.
Uh-uh.
Platforms are rewarding aggression, not reflection.
Incidents involving fights, defiance of authority, or racial accusations are algorithmically boosted.
And all of this puts together and creates this perception or this reality of this growing hostility, even if it's not representative, even if it's not...
And by the way, remember, two parts of it.
Number one, the reality of the situation and also how people who enjoy...
Or social media.
Anyway, so we'll talk about that later.
I got other stuff to go.
Listen to this one.
You're going to love this.
This is my favorite one too.
Do you believe, I do, that transgender is cosplay?
Costume play.
This is one of the most important things in the world.
If you believe that you are not alone in asking questions and you're certainly not wrong to raise an eyebrow at the sheer volume of sudden Public transgender declarations.
Out of nowhere!
Out of nowhere.
There's Ramona.
It's a media play.
An attempt to normalize unhinged behavior.
You are so correct, Ramona.
By the way, Ramona, you have a great name.
I'm not going to ever reveal your surname, but it's almost, it is not almost, it is lyrical.
It's beauteous.
What once was a rare, deep, personal journey has now exploded into a social trend, a political lightning rod, and for some, a calculated branding tool, ladies and gentlemen.
Let's start with the numbers.
Less than 0.5% of Americans.
There's James Rockford, Chicago Police Homicide Detective here.
Just wanted to thank you for so much great information.
God bless you.
God bless you, my Chi-Town friends.
What was I watching?
Oh!
I was enthralled with the history of Operation Grey Lord.
The biggest corruption, scandal, and investigation in world history.
American history.
Maybe world.
I don't know.
Fantastic.
Chicago's a great time.
It's a toddler time.
And I love the accent, or the regionalism, the patois.
So, less than a half a percent, 0.5 percent, of Americans identify as transgender two decades ago.
Less than 0.5% of Americans identify as transgender two decades ago.
Today, that number is reportedly closer to 2 percent.
And even higher among younger generations.
In elite entertainment circles, it feels it's more like 20%, especially when it comes to celebrities and their children.
So either Hollywood is experiencing a wildly disproportionate genetic anomaly, or there's a cultural incentive structure that's at work here.
An incentive structure that rewards identity declarations with media exposure, brand deals, And social clout.
And special clout.
And don't rule out payouts.
Payouts from and by.
We need Operation Greylord 2.0.
Oh, you're right about that one.
So let's be honest.
The entertainment industry thrives on attention.
In an age where headlines mean relevance and relevance means money, some seem to be strategically aligning their personal lives with politically correct narratives.
We now see a pattern.
Celebrity announces their child is transgender or non-binary, then mainstream media flood with fawning coverage, social media accounts explode in followers, and woke companies line up with endorsement deals.
The press isn't just reporting, it's celebrating, it's validating, and it weaponizes, it weaponizes these announcements as ideological statements.
Isn't that beautiful?
It's no longer about children's or a child's well-being.
It's about the narrative.
That's what makes it so dangerous.
Because while the media glamorizes hormone treatments and preaches surgical liberation, they gloss over the irreversible damage, the lifelong medicalization, incontinence, the inability to enjoy any kind of sexual enjoyment or whatever, and the social pressure it places on vulnerable, developing children.
For the average kid growing up in a confusing world, hearing that gender is fluid and identity is a trend can be deeply destabilizing and extremely confusing and wrong, flat out wrong.
It is not fluid.
Gender is not fluid.
What you wear in your clothing that's beautiful, that's great, it is not, it is not, it is not fluid.
You understand this?
Okay.
And when they see celebrities being praised and platformed for their kids transitioning, it can push them toward decisions they don't fully understand.
Decisions, my friend, with lifelong consequences.
But here's the kicker.
Very few people are actually asking why this explosion is happening.
Why are we seeing more children identifying as transgender in Hollywood?
Why is that?
Why?
Why?
Why is that?
Why are so many actors, producers, and media figures Leading this charge.
All seemingly at the same time.
Why does the entertainment press treat any question of this phenomenon as hate speech?
The answer is uncomfortable but clear.
This isn't just about rights.
It's about control.
Talk about that.
Listen to this one too.
You're going to love this one.
World War II in Russia.
I love this one.
The Russian reality versus the American myth.
The way Americans understand the end of World War II is often shaped less by historical fact than by Hollywood storytelling and this weird kind of this collective narrative that we come up with.
For most Americans, the narrative centers around D-Day, Saving Private Ryan.
That's it.
The triumphant march of U.S. soldiers through France and into Germany.
And I'm not saying it's wrong, please.
In no way, in no wise, should you ever confuse what I'm saying for a denigration or desecration or a lack of appreciation for the people who want.
Look at this one.
Let me give you an example of something.
I want you to know this.
How about this?
The number of...
American versus Russian deaths and casualties in World War II.
Side-by-side comparison.
Listen to this one.
This blows me away.
And remember, all of this information is here at your disposal.
In the United States, military deaths, 417,000.
I'm rounding off.
Soviet Union.
8.7 to 11 million.
Civilian deaths, 1,700, mainly from attacks.
Civilian deaths in Russia, 13 million to 15 million.
Total deaths, 419,000 Americans.
21 million to 27 million, World War II.
Wounded in the American military, 672,000.
This is American.
Wounded.
Wounded meaning not mortally wounded, or maybe, I don't know.
11 million.
Total military casualties, 1 million, let's say for America, total casualties.
Russia, 22 to 27 million.
Percent of the population killed.
0.32% America versus 13% of Russia.
It's incredible.
The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the war in Europe.
By the way, there is a statistic.
The statistic that shows the number of Soviet Men killed or born in 1921 who were killed in World War II, the effect on a generation, the number.
This is the one that blew me.
I saw this a while back, this one.
It said that, oh yeah, the lost generation, one of the most staggering.
Is the fate of Soviet men born in 1921, a single birth cohort known as the Lost Generation.
It means that, where is this?
Let me see.
I think it was almost...
I've got to read this one statistic.
Anyway, the reason why I'm watching this.
There is a movie on...
I happened to be watching it last night on Netflix.
De Niro, Netflix, ex-president.
I thought it...
And he's exactly the same.
It's called...
And you would think they would stop doing this.
Netflix, it was called...
Is that Zero?
Oh, Zero Day.
Zero Day.
It was the most incredible Russian propaganda you've ever seen in your life.
So, anyway, I'm going to be talking about that.
Mother's Day, Russia, Dark Woke, Cosplay, not Cosby, and a variety of other things as well.
So let me just say something.
Let me say something to you, my friends.
To the mothers, the mothers and fathers, to the mothers, Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day to you.
Men and women and girls and kids, remember, celebrate your mothers.
There will be a day, and I will tell you this, and you'll hear this, where you will wish you called your mother more, wish you could have appreciated her more, wish you could have been a better son or parent.
And I know some parents do.
Some others.
You know, they can be pretty nasty themselves.
Some others are horrible.
Speaking of David Chase, look at his mother.
That's one of the reasons for Tony Soprano and how that works.
But if your mother was, remember, she was your first friend.
She was your first connection to humanity.
The first person who said, there is somebody out there other than me.
That's exactly who we're talking about.
So ladies, and I say this, ladies, you are mothers.
Bless you.
Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy.
Thank you for watching, dear friends.
Thank you for paying attention.
Thank you for following Lionel Nation.
Make sure you are also a part of this.
And get ready for the revolution.
We are going to create here a group of people, a generation of thinkers who never, ever, ever will be the same ever again.
Take them through this way of critical thinking analysis.
In any event, dear friends, have a great and a glorious and a beauteous day.
Happy Mother's Day and we'll talk to you later.
Don't forget until then, my friends, as we always say, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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