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6hr ago
I don’t know if you’re trolling, or specifically 4d chess trolling to make critics of Israel look retarded, or if you’re trying to get the forum taken down by “fedposting” about the logistics of a suitcase nuke. I think mods should probably insta-remove posts that ever mention “plan” and “logistics” in relation to this kind of stuff, even if it seems ludicrous and completely schizo. This kind of posting seems like the easiest way for a bad actor to get ISPs to ban the website.
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6hr ago
I think there are some mods like that floating around. Ugh, imagine a huge world with AI-guided variable / randomized interesting quests? Would be cool.
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11hr ago
The Project Zomboid modding acceleration has been fascinating to watch. From an isometric title in development for a decade to first person and third person, the entire USA as a playable map, Tony Zomboid’s Pro Skater… I imagine one day you’ll be able to plug in some coordinates and play a feature-rich zombie apocalypse game within a fairly accurate recreation of your neighborhood. Which is crazy, as someone whose childhood zombie game was CS:S zombie mods.
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22hr ago
There’s a reflexive connotation to the image of a hijabi in popular culture that is informed by dozens or hundreds of media encounters where a woman wearing a hijab is more likely to be socially-accepted, respected, and competent. So it becomes second nature that when you see it, you think “socially-validated”, good, normal. The role reversal hypothetical uses a different cognitive process that requires energy and independent thinking. Why do that, when you can just outsource your beliefs to the social authorities by absorbing what the media of the social authorities implicitly teaches? So a lot of people just do that.
I do not buy that she “wants” to wear a hijab. Where are all the American women who are raised without one, and then realize that they want to wear one, if wanting to wear one were an organic desire? No; she was raised to wear it by fear of hellfire or promise of heaven, with a side of social exclusion and social propaganda, which she still believes. Maybe this is good, or maybe this is bad, but it’s no different than how a Handmaid would be raised to don the Azorean hold, or how an Afghan girl would be led to wear a complete niqab. ”Wear this or Abdul will beat you” is a a primitive understanding of the patriarchy in action.
And is there a conservative equivalent to this
A woman draped in an American flag firing a full auto AR from the back of a red ford pickup truck. The connotation to this is very wholesome. It would be different if it’s Middle Eastern themed.
I had a thought sort of like yours some years ago, when I read that the actress playing the lead in Handmaid’s Tale was part of a real cult IRL that kidnaps and exploits and controls people. I took this insight to Reddit: “can you guys believe the protagonist in the Handmaid’s Tale is a Scientologist?” Post deleted. Making fun of a fictitious Christian cult is easy, taking on a real cult could be litigiously expensive.
As an aside I think veils are completely awesome. I’m okay with putting both genders in veils so that we can waste less money and time on appearance. Imagine going weeks at a time never having to care about your appearance to a neurotic degree, and what that would do for the mental health of girls? And it’s a “free” intervention, essentially.
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2d ago
https://x.com/JDVance/status/2118004988433641835
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
- End the war
- Focus on cost of living/inflation
- Put America First
- Change our relationship to Israel
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
How will the “Israel is our ally” crowd handle this admission from the VP? By the results, Israel is only the ally of the Democrats: they handed the country over to them by instigating a stupid war through the ears and advisors of Trump. They chose their own petty Middle Eastern feud over what’s good for America and American conservatism.
Joe Kent, as the Chief of Staff at the DNI in 2025 and early 2026, was one of only a dozen or so Americans with access to the totality of America’s intelligence across all 18 agencies. He knows things we have never and will never hear of. He resigned from his role in order to call out this dynamic:
Israel knew the war on Iran would not be quick or easy, they just knew they had to get President bought in by killing Ayatollah Khamenei. President Trump he was aware of all these risk factors, but he chose to listen to Benjamin Netanyahu and he chose to listen to very pro-Israel voices within his inner circle. The President was aware of it, but again, he had a very small circle around him saying, “No, no, Iran’s a paper tiger. They didn’t hit you after Operation Midnight Hammer. You were able to, you know, just slide into Venezuela, kidnap the President, There’s already protesters on the street.” This whole thing’s going to be over in three or four weeks. That’s what the Israelis told him. Meanwhile, getting him to sign on to killing the Ayatollah, The Israelis, when I would interact with them, they were always very clear-eyed. They knew that this was not going to be a quick war, but for them, getting us involved in this slog to take out the regime was always their primary objective. And they sold it to President Trump as something that was going to be very easy, knowing that all they had to do was get us bought in.
When Dubowitz says “for the next two & a half years” he is basically admitting that the initial goal of the pro Israel lobby was to get us into this war knowing that once we were in, it would be very difficult for us to get out. Dubowitz & the Israelis alway knew this would be a very long war, but lied to Trump & the admin with tales of a decapitation strike leading to a popular uprising, resulting in a quick victory. They knew this was a lie. They will continue to lie to get us to do their bidding, regardless of what it costs our nation. Rooting out foreign influence starts with cutting off access to Israeli surrogates like FDD.
And…
Traitors are people who lie and get our troops killed in needless wars that don’t serve our country. The Israeli lobby knows this war has been a disaster for public support, and they are panicking. It’s advocates are working overtime to try and justify the mess they got our country into.
Manipulating & inflating intelligence is how we got into the disastrous Iraq war—we should know better. Unfortunately, thanks to the Israeli lobby & its paid influencers, we’ve ended up in this situation yet again, this time with a much more consequential country and a war that is shaping up to be an even bigger mess.
I know a lot of people here still consider Israel an “ally” or at least a neutral country in the grand scheme of things. Do these midterm results change your opinion? Do they shift you toward seeing Israel as a dangerous “enemy within”?
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3d ago
Yes
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3d ago
https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/35886/voting-intentions-us-midterm-elections/
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-war-midterms/
Exit polls show that 62% of voters believe that taking miltary action against Iran was the wrong decision, according to NBC News. […] Among those that voted for Democratic House candidates, 95% said it was the wrong decision, compared to 22% of those that voted for a Republican […] was named as an issue "crucial" to their vote by 45% of Democratic voters and 21% of Republican voters. Forty percent of voters overall called it "major factor."
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3d ago
Looking at his published works…
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Birth Outcomes Among Arab Americans in Michigan Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
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Ethnic Inequalities in Mortality: The Case of Arab-Americans
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Arab American Health in a Racially Charged U.S.
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Understanding Differences Within Ethnic Group Designation: Comparing Risk Factors and Health Indicators Between Iranian and Arab Americans in Northern California
Yeah, he is clearly obsessed with his Arab identity (or Arab-ized Egyptian identity). Perhaps this is the result of seeing the clear superiority of Secular Christian America compared to “Arabized” Muslim Egypt, the cognitive dissonance of living in a better country while being raised by parents who are fiercely pro-Muslim and pro-Arab idealists. The glory days of both Egypt and the Muslim world are long behind them, and Abdul would have no way to process this information humbly if he was raised in a Muslim Brotherhood environment. And Islam itself offers no way to deal with this mismatch with grace.
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3d ago
facing federal charges for hate crime vandalism and death threats against Jews
She vandalized a military production facility during a period where 85% of children were going hungry due to a food blockade against civilians:
85 per cent of children did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted.
7% of children had moderate or severe malnutrition:
A separate study of 1200 children in Gaza between February 2024 and June 2024 estimated that 6.7% and 9.6% of children below age 5 years had severe and MAM, respectively, also with higher estimates among children in North Gaza
The baseline rate for this in Gaza is 1-1.5%, though this is probably because of the blockades etc they suffered from before the war. In the US the baseline rate is 0.1%.
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5d ago
The communities expand, and when they take electoral control by becoming kingmakers in New Jersey politics, they will expand with little resistance. And they will probably decide to steal more money, like they’re doing with the federal security grant program. Or maybe they will force Rutgers to bend over backwards a la lawfare:
For the proposed listening sessions, the agreement names Rutgers Hillel and the school’s Jewish law student association — the same one pro-Palestinian students accused of doxing them — as relevant “affinity groups” to the campus Jewish community. Rutgers currently participates in Hillel-led antisemitism training seminars; the school also previously announced an internal antisemitism task force, but unlike other universities it has yet to release a report. In December 2023, the school became one of a long list of universities to suspend its chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine; it reupped the group’s suspension in August.
I imagine they will try to expand New Jersey’s K-12 holocaust education, to maximize the demoralization of the goyim and the special social privileges for Jews. Children already have to read books like this as part of New Jersey’s mandatory holocaust indoctrination:
Browse these literature recommendations to help young white children see racism and bigotry and understand how to take a stand against it: THE LEGEND OF FREEDOM HILL ($15.95) tells the story of two young friends in 1850s California -- Rosabel, an African American, and Sophie, who is Jewish. When Rosabel's mother, Miz Violet, is captured by a slave catcher, the two young girls put their heads together to win back her freedom. The lively text and colorful illustrations enliven this moving tale of friendship and bravery. (Grades K-4)
Why shouldn’t your child read “White Antiracist Biographies” starting in Kindergaarten?
In the part few years the Jews in New Jersey have already expanded the program and ADL and Gottheimer are looking to add even more guilt-based propaganda for your children to read before they can count.
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5d ago
My state already has sharia law, with clerics ruling over everything from sideburns to showing your hair. The extremists are 5% of births and doubling every twenty years; they are projected to be 80% of births by 2300, but they are so adept at politicking that they will have functional control over the state within 40 years. These extremists have so much influence that one of them born in my state has vetoed the president’s choice of cabinet for not settling matters in their sharia courts. This sharia extremist was a key voice in causing America to enter a disastrous war with no way out. The sharia courts rule that women are forbidden to divorce without their husband’s permission and forbidden to sing in public where men might hear. Artistic representations are largely forbidden, as is any socializing with non-extremists. They have so much power already that when they get caught engaging in large-scale welfare fraud, the state merely offers an amnesty program so that the cleric’s favorites don’t get jail time. I’ve seen them take over my own relative’s school board where they cut all funding for extracurricular programs because they only attend their own extremist schools. The sharia extremists engage in a variety of schemes to fund their operation. Feel free to swing by New Jersey and check out our sharia towns if you ever get the chance.
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5d ago
When they get rid of the Palestinians they will simply move on to the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Egyptians, then the Iraqis and the Arabs in the north of Saudi Arabia. These are the imagined borders of the ancient territory of Eretz Yisrael and Rabbis have their own form of “accelerationism”. Your great-grandchildren are going to be hearing about how God always promised swathes of Iraq to the chosen people. They will also still be hearing about the holocaust.
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5d ago
Medicare at least helps Americans. America fighting Israel’s war only helps Israel afford their own universal healthcare plan. We are effectively spending our own taxes and dying so that Israelis 6,700 miles away enjoy free healthcare. It would be inappropriate for Americans not to hate this arrangement. This is essentially what the emotion of hatred is for, the neutralization of worthless costs to us:
hatred produces behaviors functionally designed to neutralize targets costly to the hater
I mean, it is instrumentally useful to hate either Israel or our arrangement with Israel so that we can stop (transitively) funding their healthcare system and instead fund our own healthcare system, if that’s what voters want us to do. (I don’t really know how I feel about healthcare spending personally, though).
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6d ago
The ad is pretty good. I don’t think normal people want to pay $2,000 per household to improve the lives of Jews 6,700 miles away, just twenty years after we spent $3,000,000,000,000 and 4,400 lives doing the same in Iraq. (Well, rather, half the cause of the Iraq war was Jewish lobbying, so $1.5 trillion and 2,200 American lives is the the tab owed by Jewish lobbyists). Haley Stevens’ husband is Jewish and she herself is considering converting to Judaism, and it seems that they’ve chosen to align their loyalty to the Jewish Nation and not America. This isn’t exactly unexpected.
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7d ago
RIP Patrick Stewart
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8d ago
I’m not following your argument. If you believe that the sociopathic have some invaluable skill, why would you want them tending to the very stupid anyway? Seems menial. And who is an example of someone you think is a sociopath who has done a lot of good which his non-sociopathic peers could not have accomplished?
If you have two different Centers for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too, one run by a sociopath and one run by a relatively reasonable person with sincere love for the pupils, what superseding benefit should we expect from the former? I would expect to see a lot of waste which benefits the owner’s pockets or reputation. Because the sociopathic ultimately cares about his power, success, status, reputation. (I mean it’s a spectrum, everyone loves this stuff, but there are people on either pole). He’ll probably do a lot of worthless assemblies and meetings where he gets to feel powerful, maybe he’ll send flyers to make the town sad about how little they care for the stupid in a bid to bring in private donations, maybe he’ll overstate how much money the school needs so he can pull a bigger salary, maybe he’ll do a whole redesign of the school that doesn’t matter simply because it makes him feel cooler. Or maybe there’s some “test” that gives him a national ranking so he ignores the holistic needs of the pupils to focus on min-maxxing that one metric, so he can be boastful among his peers. What am I missing here?
Why would you think the moral requirements for an idiot and a savant are the same? (Are you a communist?) The system includes both of them, but the moral requirements are not
Do you mean their moral desert claims? Well, a community should increase the wellbeing of its members, as this is the noblest goal worth pursuing, with everything else being vanity. This aspiration makes sense to me: if I can 80/20 my happiness, the rest of my energy should be spent on my neighbor. I mean, not that I do this, but that this is the most noble and desirable governing principle for a community: abounding in joy. My conscience and reason tells me this would be the best.
It takes just as much effort for them to do the right thing as it takes the sociopath to do the more right thing.
Do you mean in terms of raw economic productivity? But that’s not an end unto itself. The 60iq should be trained to fulfill the duties appropriate for his iq, and he should be trained in how to pursue a happy life likewise. That might mean putting him in front of media where he will develop a phobia of gambling, alcohol, or drugs. Maybe it means that his financial decisions are double-checked by someone, or a benevolent ai. Maybe his schooling should literally just consist of an RPG in Roblox where he does mastery practice for the kind of tasks he would find in his future employment.
Some people are better than others and thus deserve more than you do
This is not something I believe. Ideally, each person would have the same amount of wellbeing (high), sacrificing his own for another in need; if anyone is to receive an overabundance in wellbeing, it should be for the instrumental purpose of eventually increasing wellbeing in the longrun, like mothers (to raise healthy children), the very innovative (to produce more innovation), perhaps young couples (to produce more children), soldiers, harsh laborers, that kind of thing. I want the 60iq to have the same wellbeing as the 140iq, in the basic needs sense. As far as we are Abel. Why not?
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8d ago
But if you let the sociopathic guide the low IQ, he will probably find some self-gratifying avenue by which he can benefit himself. Maybe he opens up a school that doesn’t do anything cost except his pockets and reputation. Maybe his charisma introduces false hopes. Maybe he completely ignores their needs and just maxxes the political donation -> kickback pipeline. Seems to be infinite ways for him to ignore the Important Thing to act selfishly. The evolutionarily-aligned cognition for helping someone is just compassion / pity, but this of course can also go awry if you are inculcated with modern values, hence the need for training, like how a doctor is trained to perform triage.
Maybe there is some niche where they are most useful, like in a “hype man” role or working on a project where the output metrics are impossible to fudge.
experience?
Thinking in light of the Cyropedia, the Spartans, savant training generally, and how Krishnamurti was raised by the Theosophical society. I don’t see why we couldn’t train up savants in this way as we do with chess players, piano players, mathematicians, etc. In the same way that politics selects for the Ruthless Ramaswamys of the world, willing to capitalize on a woman’s rape and conspire with his mother to steal money from Alzheimer’s research, we would maximize in the opposite way, selecting for the most ruthful.
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9d ago
The best rule would be to follow the command of the closest relative who has their life together. Nobody else is more likely to have a pure motivation in advising someone. I’m skeptical of a less intelligent person’s ability to understand the correct instantiations of “work hard” and “be kind to people”. This leaves them open to being manipulated. I like the idea of selfless shepherds leading a flock of the lowest IQ with pure compassion, but there’s no institution right now that has a track record of doing so reliably. If we can find a way to select for people like that, though, it would be nice. In my dream system we would select the relatively high IQ who cry easily when you show them sad videos or play them sad music, and then you throw them into a twenty-year-long program where they spend all day reasoning and arguing and being emotionally-indoctrinated into Christlikeness, give them a salary for their whole life so that there’s no competing motivations, and then just listen to whatever they say. That’s probably the best bet: IQ, temperament, extreme training since childhood in pragmatic thinking, propaganda / inculcation (to make them love saying what is right even if crucified for it). Can’t imagine a better selection process than that unless we want to throw in lie detectors / EEG.
I think Tristan Harris or Lee Kuan Yew are good contemporary examples of the kinds of guys you’d want to select for in terms of temperament, whereas you’d want to do everything humanly possible to deselect the dangerously charismatic Elizabeth Holmes types. Probably easier to weed out the somewhat more sociopathic in childhood before they learn how to adeptly lie.
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12d ago
this has brought women together to share their stories in a moment of cultural solidarity.
Women need a cathartic ritual for the release of negative emotional baggage in a safe and supportive social environment. Think of it as emotional menstruation. In the same way a guy may need a simulatory activity where he kills enemies in a game (or engages in a Fight Club-like activity, and studies show fighting is emotionally beneficial for males), women need this activity but for complaint, lamentation, grief, etc. Modern forms of American religion generally lack catharsis, so what’s left for women are political rites. The Cornell seven becomes a quasi seven sorrows of Mary for the secular woman who has a lot of stress in her life related to men, in particular suitors and exes and unrequited crushes and bad bosses and teachers, and feels insufficiently protected by a patriarchal figure (the evolved social order of Westerners, the absence of which gnaws at the spirit). A woman who is still stressed over her last relationship can experience a heightened form of her own distress within the imagined life of a Jane Doe, the stand-in for all womenfolk —
[“I am Jane Doe” 🤜🤛 “his name was Robert Paulson”]
— and by experiencing these emotions at their peak through pity (similar to the classical articulation of the Sublime requiring a position of safety for the observer) they will feel them subside within themselves. How? & Why? First, because emotion naturally habituates and subsides; you cannot stay in heightened emotion forever; plunging into the depths of grief and distress will lead to an emotional resurrection within some days. Second, for the same reason that a person feels better about their sorry state when they witness the much more sorry state of another person. After watching a video of a paraplegic living their life, you’re unlikely to find your own small complaints as serious. I remember having this experience last month reading about the 9/11 victims, especially going through an online blog of a victim of seeing the guestbook of loved ones, infinitely sad, and when you snap back into your own reality it’s difficult to get worked up about your own problems. Well, Jane Doe accomplishes this fictively — the over-the-top suffering is sort of the point — she is alienated, trapped, alone, anonymous, accused, forgotten, etc, the emphasis on the hours. Lastly, they imbue all the causality of the evil on the fraternity brothers, getting all their anger out on them. So, the range of negative emotions are purged or at least mitigated by the event.
I don’t really think this has anything to do with experiences of sexual assault, though. I think it’s just about general negative experiences, especially wrt men.
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13d ago
The priestly representative of the Catholic God has the full weight of placebo mysterium behind him, that power which comes from arcane murmurings in dead languages, gestures in draping vestments, an ancient legacy, etc. Your local Protestant has his entire theology in the bookshelf behind him when he does a livestream Q/A. So of course you have to fly in an exorcist from the Vatican, especially if the witchery is psychogenic.
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15d ago
I think they will target civilian infrastructure. Not really sure what else they can do. If there were a simple way to take out the mobile TELs and stuff they would have done it earlier. By now, the Iranians must be better trained on TELs and more motivated.
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16d ago
The Ohio boomer Republican may be more likely to side with the mom in this scenario
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17d ago
Truly fascinating, I had no idea about any of this. Thanks for taking the time to write that up. I only learned about Homestuck when researching which online communities have the highest rate of transgender membership (it’s Homestuck by a considerable margin, then its fanfic and TTRPGs). This part was especially interesting:
I think a lot of the original tumblr discourse that created bespoke niche pride flags and polyamorous/asexual woke norms literally came from Homestuck fans. I don't mean this casually: for anyone who wasn't there at the time, Homestuck had a huge influence on the social justice circles that became modern queer leftlib politics.
Was it like the polar opposite incubation chamber as 4chan? 4chan incubated the far right in 2010-13, and Homestuck did something similar with the left? Was most of its community on tumblr / discord then?
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17d ago
Sure but I think this is just a co-factor that didn’t exist in the past. The pharaoh is a whole other identity co-inhabiting Yugi’s body. Goku becomes more masculine, but the Saiyans are a totally different race that Goku realizes he truly is; it’s over 9000% different than just being a normal human. Ash doesn’t evolve, that’s true, but the Pokémon have kind of human-ish personalities; people love to cosplay them.
Ghislaine had a certain social standing by virtue of being the daughter of Robert Maxwell. Her family home has its own Wikipedia page and lore, and her middle school has its own long alphabetized Wikipedia page listing its graduates (all blue). There’s not one million Maxwells to choose from. In the UK, there were maybe a dozen. And how many could be completely trusted? But you could probably trust the daughter of the Britain’s singularly most important asset of Israel. In the same way you can trust the son of the mob boss more than a random adult.
Why would Israel pick a Jewish agent? Because of the cultural, ethnic, historical and religious motivations for his continued loyalty. That’s like asking why China would pick a Chinese spy. But another reason is that Jeffrey Epstein was uniquely charismatic, by all accounts. There are, also, not one million Jeffrey Epsteins in the world. Charisma is a gift.
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