Well a tax on every word you say sounds about right.
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my_juicy_nose2 days ago
+7
Also, don’t say gay
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normaal_volk3 days ago
-26
A tax on every world Trump tweets would be a dream
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Top-Handle47863 days ago
+18
There's this phenomenon on the Internet, where every discussion eventually leads to Hitler - "Godwin's law".
We need one for Donnie, because you people sure can't stop talking about him.
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DDoubleDDog1 day ago
+2
I think it should be named after you, the one who proposed the new law.
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normaal_volk3 days ago
-12
Hmm and tell me why it’s not relevant to mention Trump here when his actions clearly motivated this suggestion?
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UseBackground23703 days ago
+10
As much as I hate that pedo, his actions did not motivate any of this. The IRGC has been cutting off internet access to Iranians years before any of this. They've been an evil controlling tyrannical dictatorship since day one, 47 years ago. Trump had nothing to do with this. Stop saying he has because it gives him credit and it minimizes what the IRGC actually is.
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1stHalfTexasfan2 days ago
+1
Looks like someone didnt read the article linked. Just here to yell in a vacuum.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
-1
No I know exactly what they are, since I'm actually Iranian.
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1stHalfTexasfan2 days ago
+1
I can cut and paste from the article to assist but you won't read that either. Youre complaining about blind assumptions while doing the same personally. Whats the difference?
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+1
What blind assumptions? That the IRGC is a terorrist organization that has been murdering us for 47 years and has shut down the internet for 73 days and counting? That they've hanged over 900 innocent people in 2026 so far and those are just the cases we know about...? Those are not assumptions. They're reality. If you can't even acknowledge reality, there is no point discussing anything further.
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1stHalfTexasfan2 days ago
I dont argue against what you're going through, just saying it relates in no way to the article. It would be like an article about trump taking a shit and me preaching about how much I despise the decisions of ICE. Yes, the argument is valid but it has nothing to do with trump taking a dump. If you did read the article then you've just chosen to peddle your woes knowingly. Im sure there is an article or post about what the Iranian government is doing to their people. THAT would be the correct forum for this sentiment. The first part of their reasoning in the article is to disrupt FOREIGN trade.
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h34dyr0kz2 days ago
-3
This has nothing to do with Iran cutting off Internet access to its people. It was Iran talking about monetizing the Strait of Hormuz. There is only one person directly responsible for Iran monetizing access to the Strait of Hormuz.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+4
And that's the Islamic Republic. Why isn't Oman doing the same?
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IAmSpartacustard3 days ago
-3
No one was even entertaining tolls across Hormuz as a possibility until DT unilaterally started this war, personally, with an executive order. I'm normally the first to say gas prices and international incidents and shit like that arent the presidents fault (or even close to their ability to manipulate) but in this case it is literally ONE SINGULAR PERSONS FAULT. Clown show
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+4
He isn't blameless, but the Islamic Republic is the cause of all of this mess. Trump is just crazy enough to actually go for this while everyone else was too afraid and hoping ignoring the problem would make it go away. Eventually, the Islamists would have done something like this. Except, then they'd have nuclear weapons too and you would never have been able to deal with it.
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Icedidit2 days ago
-6
Trump is the most powerful person in world history..
Would be weird to not mention him when he started this stupid war with Iran…
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xegoba70063 days ago
-2
Better to tax every lie. It’s a lot more money.
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nonno71722 days ago
+19
They've not thought this through. Several of the CLSs that feed Iran are in countries they've bombed in the last 60 days. It really wouldn't surprise me if Iran's internet access suddenly became "metered" or made non-existent by one or all of the countries they've lobbed missiles and drones at.
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Successful_Ride69203 days ago
+15
Wouldn't it be fairly simple to re-route the cabling above ground through the UAE to bypass the Strait? And if that happens, couldn't they just disconnect any cabling going to Iran?
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UseBackground23703 days ago
+76
As an Iranian, I can't wait for the IRGC to actually cut off the rest of the world's internet so I can at least see the ones supporting them STFU. I'm sure they'll turn this into a "oh buy they just did that because the US pressured them into it"...
Not to mention, them doing this will directly hurt everyone on this planet that has an internet access, so no more leggo videos for them to watch and hopefully, the westerners and leftists finally will open their eyes and give a shiiit about us. Y'all should really finally get a taste of what us Iranians have been living with for 47 years so you stop calling us "mossad agent"s.
It's not gonna happen, but I really seriously hopd so.b
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VeredVestrit3 days ago
+19
I pray for you, and for all Iranians 🙏🏻 you deserve to be free
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Sweet_Concept22112 days ago
+16
As a non-Iranian, I would like it if Iranians could quit trying to drag the rest of the world into the bottom of the bucket, just so we can all suffer together.
Like, I get that you guys have it bad, and some of that is on the USA - but it isn't on *everyone in the world*.
And, goddamnit - a lot of Iran's troubles are the direct result of Iranian bullshit.
The US put the Shah in place back in the 1950s.
Iranians installed the current regime, and Iranians maintain it.
Hamas. Hezbollah. Houthis... What do they have to do with Iran? If Iran wouldn't f*** with Israel, they wouldn't even think about Iran.
Like, maaaaybe... if you guys stopped thinking in terms of giving outsiders a taste of your own personal hell, and started trying to fix what is broken in Iran, your problems would be fewer.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+10
That's not Iranians though. That's the islamic republic. Iran doesn't sponsor terorrists. The islamic republic does. That's not Iran. We didn't choose them. They are holding us hostage. For one thing, I was born 20 years after the revolution, so even my parents were barely old enough to remember it. How is it my fault that the islamic republic is in charge?
You think Iranians haven't done anything to take back our country? Then why has the Islamic Republic cut off the internet for 73 days? Why are they going around arresting people in their own homes and hanging them for made up crimes? Why did they kill TENS OF THOUSANDS of innocent unarmed civilians in just 2 days? Why do you think we haven't been doing anything? Have you been living under a rock this whole time?
I don't want the rest of the world to suffer, but I don't think you'll ever truly understand or appreciate what the islamic republic is and what it's like to live under tyranny. I shouldn't wish it on my worse enemy, but getting a taste of it might just be what is needed for the privileged folks such as yourself to finally get a dose of reality. You have no idea what it's like to live under dictatorship, because you think Trump's America is a dictatorship. The very fact that you can even say that out loud, in public, on television, on social media and not be prosecuted and hanged means it isn't true.
Yet, you think your incompetent government is the worst. No. You just need to check your privilege and come to your senses. Few of you are actually empathetic and educated enough on this to understand without having to experience it themselves first hand. Most of you however, you're not and you REFUSE TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DO KNOW. exactly what you are doing here, btw.
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Sweet_Concept22112 days ago
+6
The Islamic Republic is owned and operated by Iranians.
I realize that not all Iranians support their government - but it is, in fact, NOT aliens from outside who run the country and all of its systems.
You may not have chosen them, but enough Iranians support them and work for them to maintain their grip on power.
And outsiders cannot fix that.
Only Iranians can.
I don't need to "check my privilege" and live like an Iranian to understand tyranny.
My American ancestors - including Indigenous Americans - fought tooth and claw for every small gain in their rights.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
No babe, they literally are foreigners. Larijani was the second highest ranking individual and he was born in Iraq. The official religion of Iran is Zoroastrian, not Islam. They are settlers. Not Persians. They speak Arabic. They bring in their militia groups from Iraq and Afghanistan to Iran to kill Iranians. You think any government that is actually from that country does that? I don't know any history, so please give me some examples of a government bringing people from other countries in to kill the people of "their" country.
About 10% of the population supports them. The number isn't large enough to justify why they stay. The reason isn't that 10% support them. They have weapons that the other 90% doesn't have.
I don't think you understand the gravity and the cruelty of the islamic republic. Again, because of your privilege of having never having to deal with something like this. This isn't South Korea where protesting will make the government resign. This isn't a democratic government where they will be listening to people's concerns. This is literally a hostage situation where the hostage takers don't care if the hostages live or die. So any noise and annoyance is met with murder.
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Sweet_Concept22112 days ago
+2
**Lots of countries hire mercenaries to deal with civil unrest:**
**Russia/Wagner Group in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Libya (2018–Present):** The CAR government, facing rebel advances, turned to Russian mercenary groups (often linked to the [Wagner Group](https://adf-magazine.com/2025/08/preying-on-instability/)) to protect key sites, train military forces, and suppress rebel activity, which has often involved fighting within internal conflicts.
**Nigeria and Foreign Contractors (2015):** The Nigerian government secretly hired foreign mercenaries to aid in its fight against Boko Haram to combat the insurgency in the northeast.
**Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone (1995–1997):** Facing imminent collapse due to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, the Sierra Leone government hired the South African private military company Executive Outcomes to suppress the insurgency and regain control of diamond fields.
**Equatorial Guinea (2004 coup attempt):** While this was an *attempted* overthrow, the case highlighted the prevalence of foreign contractors, where mercenaries were hired to overthrow the government to secure control of the country's oil fields.
**Congo Crisis (1960–1965):** Following independence from Belgium, several entities in the Congo, particularly in the secessionist Katanga province, hired European mercenaries to defend their interests and combat UN forces and local rival factions.
**Libya and Sudan (2011-Present):** In the aftermath of civil conflicts, mercenaries from various nations (Russia, Sudan, Chad, etc.) have been employed to support factions in civil conflicts or to maintain security in volatile environments....
If 90% of Iranians oppose their government... Then Iranians must be the biggest pussies in history.
Like, your army outnumbers theirs by 9-to-1**,** and you are asking outsiders to fight for you?
Naw, brother.
Don't make excuses.
F****** fight harder.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
-1
Calling people who've been literally slaughtered pussies is absolutely disgusting. It's not about numbers. No matter how many you gather, when the minority has assault rifles and military training to kill and have been instructed to shoot and kill and have tanks and tear gas and military weapons - it doesn't matter if you have a larger number. They killed 50,000 people in just two days. They literally opened fire on crowds from back of a truck with DShK weapons mounted on trucks.
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Sweet_Concept22112 days ago
Ok, buddy.
First of all, the commenter I responded to is full of c***.
They are claiming that a 10% Arab minority somehow controls the other 90% of Iranians - with no help from people of Persian descent.
And that is simply untrue.
Further to the point...
There are forms of resistance that don't put you in the line of fire.
So far, the Iranian government has massacred 0.04% of it population.
That leaves essentially 100% of the opposition alive - amounting to 86,000,000+ souls - if what that commenter claims is true.
If 9/10 Iranians went on strike, or even just fought back with f****** rocks, how would the government stay afloat?
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+1
You really do live in delululand.
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Sweet_Concept22111 day ago
+2
It is a f***-of-alot more delusional for Iranians to ask for outside assistance at getting rid of their government when they themselves have only scratched the surface of attempting to toss out a group they massively outnumber.
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Scriefers2 days ago
+3
Keep fighting. Keep rallying. They have a perfect opportunity right now to take Iran back for themselves and rid the Islamic republic from the lands. Iran has the world’s greatest military on their door step with the same goal in mind (among many other goals as well I’m sure), but it has been time to act for the past 2 months.
Yes people will die. A lot of people. That’s revolution. That’s the sacrifice.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+4
People are terrified. I don't know how else to explain it but the crackdown on the protests on January 8 and 9 was so bad it's almost similar to Covid - many people know someone who was killed by the IRGC either on those two days or the days after it. They went to the hospitals to finish off anyone who had survived. Many died days after from infection and blood loss because they were too afraid of going to the hospital and doctors and nurses were also arrested, threatened ad raped for helping protesters who were shot and injured.
After a while, they started actively hunting down people by reviewing camera footage and or online tracking and reporting, ad have been making arrests. They've been executing many of them and even other political prisoners who were arrested for previous protests. The prices of everything has gone up astronomically. People are busy surviving. Then there is the internet. It might sound trivial to you, but not having any internet access for 70+ days for those of us born into the internet era is crippling. As someone who's experienced this, by this same regime, but not 70+ days, I 100% would have taken my life.
The internet was and still is my only outlet. Living in Iran is hell, and the only escape we have is the internet. Thts why my English is good. To lose the one thing keeping me going is unbearable. Not to mention, many people's livelihood depends on the internet. People have gone bankrupt, have lost their only source of income. Nobody feels good. Everyone is a walking zombie. Defeated. Tired. Brutalized. The regime holds parades every night, paying their followers with food and white SIM cards that have internet access, to go around neighborhoods making loud noises and disturbing people trying to sleep. They pretend like it's a celebration of their winning the war...
You can't even imagine how defeated we feel. Trump kept promising "help is on the way" and desperate people who didn't have any other hope believed that... Only for him to turn around and say he's gonna destroy the whole country and that the regime change has already happened when we all know it hasn't. It is still the same Islamic Republic.
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Scriefers2 days ago
-1
Hmm. Guess the people aren’t truly ready yet. Everything you just explained is an accepted and expected fact of revolution. It’s their choice if they want to face it or not.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+4
The fact that you talk about this so casually is concerning to me. Have you ever lived under a dictatorship like this that kills any dissident without consequences? Cause unless you're from Afghanistan (and a woman) or Russian who opposes Putin or North Korean, I'm afraid you're not gonna understand what is happening to us Iranians.
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Embarrassed-Hunt78302 days ago
+4
These replies truly are appalling in their callousness. As if revolutions are so simple and easy that if the people will just suffer enough then it will succeed. This sort of thinking can only come from an insulated reality. If you really are who you say you are, then I empathize with you. Unfortunately, that is all I can ever do.
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UseBackground23702 days ago
+1
And that is much better than what this other guy is doing, which is basically blaming the victims for not being more willing to die when we have no guarantee that it will ever be any different.
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Scriefers2 days ago
+1
Not casual, just matter of fact. I understand fully what I am saying, its implications, and how it relates to Iranians. It’s very elementary to understand you must face hardships, often times worse hardships, to overcome current hardships.
Breaking them down to their elements, revolutions are all very similar and are all very difficult.
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Embarrassed-Hunt78302 days ago
+2
You are missing the human element. The fear of the Iranian people is very much understandable considering the massacre that had just occurred. It's not simply the willingness to face and endure hardships that determine the success of a revolution. People can endure hardships to an extreme extent for a cause, but if any attempts can simply be violently and brutally suppressed by the regime, then it will all come to nothing. There must be at least some modicum of success.
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Scriefers2 days ago
+1
No, the human element is very succinctly addressed and naturally inherent in my points. It is understood that hardships implies facing, fighting, and overcoming the violence and brutality of the regime with violence and brutality by the Iranian people.
You are missing the realism element. Go back to my first reply in this chain. People will die. A lot of people. On both sides. That is the human element. That is the hardship. There is no skirting that absolute in order to overthrow the regime.
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Nextasy2 days ago
-5
Sure wish Americans would wake up and recognize the USA this same way
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Sweet_Concept22112 days ago
+1
Brainrot take.
Since when was an American woman ever in history executed by the state for not covering her hair?
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Nextasy1 day ago
I didn't say America = Iran. I wish the American people would adopt the rationale given above
>Americans installed the current [American] regime, and Americans maintain it.
Instead all I get on this website is Americans bitching and moaning about how much their government's support of atrocities is "unacceptable" and refusing to acknowledge that every day they don't conduct actual impactful protest, they are signaling tht the current administration is acceptable.
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Sweet_Concept22111 day ago
+1
Americans have a strong history of fighting for change.
Revolutionary war, slavery abolitionism, Civil War, fighting for workers' rights, women's right to vote, civil rights, LGBTQ+ rights...
There have been a record number of political protests in the streets of the USA since the start of Trump's 2nd administration - over 32,000 - including multiple that were the largest protests in American history, with thousands of cities and millions of Americans involved.
Trump's thugs have been killing protesters with impunity, and the protests just get bigger.
The opposition to Trump have swept almost every single election over the past 15 months, and gained a lot of ground even in places that are thought to be solidly MAGA.
Americans aren't sitting around waiting for Iranians to come to their rescue, that's for damn sure.
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Nextasy1 day ago
+1
History shows that Americans have been willing to protest, to put their safety on the line for what they believe in. There have been really meaningful protests in the past.
The protests of the last year or two though, seem to be having no effect, because they are infrequent and do not disturb the interests of those in charge. There has been zero response or change in behaviour from the federal government, in fact, their behaviour has only become worse. But I have yet to see the protests respond accordingly.
The exception that I've seen is Portland. Honestly, I think if every US city had the stomach Portland does when they protest, to have constant, repeated, and intense action, then we might see some change. One Saturday protest every couple of months, like I see in other parts of the state, simply won't cut it.
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Sweet_Concept221122 hr ago
+1
32,000+ protests in a year is NOT infrequent by any measure.
They're just not reported on much, as virtually all media platforms are billionaire-owned.
And they HAVE led to responses at the Federal level.
Democratic lawmakers listened to their protesting constituents and held the line in Congress to defeat funding for ICE.
Trump had to withdraw US troops from law enforcement roles in US cities thanks to the combined efforts of protesters and the lawmakers + judges who listened to them.
Democratic Governors and Attorneys General who hold majorities in 23 states listened to protesters and filed a record number of multi-state lawsuits against the Trump Administrations attempts at rolling back environmental laws - and have won over 90% of adjudicated cases.
And the list goes on.
Like, are you only getting your info from clickbait social media headlines?
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Nextasy16 hr ago
+1
No, I'm not only getting my info from headlines, thanks. I just see little impact on the federal government as a result of protests. State governments are each their own story, fine, but international relations are dictated by the feds, and they have totally ignored protests, meaning they are ineffective in that area.
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Sweet_Concept221111 hr ago
+1
Republicans currently control all three branches of the Federal government. Therefore, they set the agenda.
The Trump administration's goals are not aligned with the needs of the middle and lower classes, and they obviously are not aligned with the protesters. So, of course protests are having less of an obvious impact at the Federal level.
Trump's economic "stewardship" has a 22% public approval; 76% disapproval rating. And still his administration is doing everything in their power to tank the economy for the middle and lower classes.
The protests are going to get a lot bigger leading up to the midterm elections.
And their impact will be to kick Republicans out of the Congressional majority, after which there will be people who agree with the protesters setting the agenda at the Federal level.
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JarvisModeOn3 days ago
+6
Next, they will start charging a toll tax on Wi-Fi packets passing through Hormuz, too. The world really does not need another checkpoint turning into a political leverage game.
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Advanced_Poet_78163 days ago
+13
The free trade and shipping is a very recent phenomenon in history. It’s mostly just America enforcing it. Once the American empire weakens we’ll be going to back to the times of pirates and restricted waterways.
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Imbendo2 days ago
+3
Sometimes it feels like Iran is just trying to get occupied. They are in a great position now. Just tone all the rhetoric down and go on about your business. You don't need nukes, just stop being so crazy. Being a calm reasonable country is highly underrated.
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my_juicy_nose3 days ago
-8
Not sure how to feel about this
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chaser6762 days ago
+11
Why on earth would you support the IRGC doing this?
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my_juicy_nose2 days ago
-9
cheer for David against Goliath, root for people who’s country is being destroyed, schadenfreude if seeing trump and American imperialism fafo.
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Top-Handle47863 days ago
+3
Not that much, really. Sure, it'd suck for the people in the area (tho I suppose they've got bigger things to worry about atm), but it's not like all global traffic goes through these cables, there's [plenty of alternative wiring](https://www.submarinecablemap.com/) under the waves.
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