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China’s Navy Has Done Something It’s NEVER Done Before

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    Did Donald Trump decide to lift 
    Iranian oil-related sanctions on China?
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    Xi Jinping is somehow even 
    more furious with Taiwan!
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    And the UK just made a huge 
    mistake on the Chinese Embassy.
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    That and more on this week’s China news headlines!
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    Welcome to China Uncensored, I’m Chris Chappell.
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    (shuffles papers)
    The United Kingdom
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    is about to make a huge mistake.
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    And 
    I’m not just saying that as an American
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    because July 4th is coming up and we 
    always treat the British
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    with an FAFO mindset this time of year.
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    No, I’m saying it because…
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    a Chinese mega-embassy is set 
    to be approved within weeks.
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    The mega-embassy would be located at…
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    Royal Mint Court,
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    near the Tower of London,
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    the UK’s financial hub in the City of London,
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    and critical communication cables.
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    Which has raised concerns by British 
    Intelligence about hacking, espionage,
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    or sabotage—all of which the CCP 
    has, of course, promised not to do.
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    The property was sold to the PRC by 
    the George Soros-
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    affiliated Delancey Estates in 2018 after they bought 
    it from the government in 2014.
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    The Labour Government’s Housing Secretary…
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    is expected to wave through the approval of the new,
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    controversial building within weeks,
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    with a formal rubber stamping before September,
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    although that might trigger 
    a judicial review process.
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    This decision comes after 
    Xi Jinping himself lobbied
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    the UK government for the building to be approved.
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    I’m sure it weighed heavily 
    on their minds.
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    Specifically, weighing lots and lots of pounds.
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    The new 
    embassy is controversial for several reasons,
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    The most obvious being…well, have 
    you been paying attention to what
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    happens with these embassies and 
    consulates across the globe?
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    If not, how many times have I told you 
    to like, share, and subscribe?!
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    In Canada, the Chinese consulate allegedly ran 
    election interference campaigns in 2019 and 2021,
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    in New York City, the consulate runs influence 
    campaigns in the Big Apple and Boston,
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    and there are calls for sanctions as a Philippine
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    probe accused the Chinese embassy 
    in Manila of an influence campaign.
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    They’re more obsessed with influencing than a 
    22 year-old on social media who doesn’t realize
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    once their looks fade it’s all gonna be over for 
    them since they never developed a personality.
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    Due to incidents such as these and China’s 
    many, ,
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    well-documented human rights abuses
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    there have been protests in 
    London and elsewhere in the
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    UK against approving this mega-embassy project,
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    and many lawmakers have raised 
    concerns or objections to doing so,
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    Including the Conservative 
    Party leader in Britain,
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    And President Trump.
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    So this is gearing up to be a tough fight 
    that will take some time to resolve.
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    A spokesman with the Royal Mint 
    Court Residents Association,
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    which represents people who live and work in 
    properties next to the proposed embassy, said…
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    “this has been a David versus Goliath battle 
    since the beginning,
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    and we are not giving up now.
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    Most of us fully expected this outcome,
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    and 
    we are now crowdfunding a legal challenge.”
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    It truly is a David vs Goliath battle,
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    only 
    if Goliath was on the same team as David
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    and David was trying to prevent Goliath 
    from doing something gigantically stupid.
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    (shuffles papers)
    Some analysts have grown concerned that…
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    Trump might be granting an Iranian oil option 
    to China.
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    The concern comes from a post Trump
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    made on social media — because of 
    course it does — where he wrote,
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    “China can now continue to purchase 
    oil from Iran.
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    Hopefully, they will be purchasing plenty from the US, also.
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    It 
    was my great honor to make this happen!”
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    So what’s going on here?
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    Is Trump doing a quid pro quo with China after…
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    The US called on China to prevent Iran 
    from closing the Strait of Hormuz…
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    And they did so?
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    Most likely not.
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    The CCP responded to the post by 
    saying it “will take legitimate
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    measures to safeguard its energy security 
    based on its own national interests.”
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    And since oil from Iran is a big 
    part of China’s energy security,
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    the CCP probably didn’t do or 
    say anything as a favor to Trump.
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    Trump’s statement could have just 
    been a snarky acknowledgment that the CCP
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    has found some ways to skirt 
    sanctions and still get Iran’s oil,
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    Such as this new railway corridor that 
    runs back and forth between Iran and China,
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    reaching Iran in just 15 days,
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    far quicker than the 40-day sea route 
    and free from US naval interference.
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    Trump is a master troll, after all.
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    Even people on Bluesky are admitting he’s 
    hilarious.
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    Cryatollah is an all-timer nickname.
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    One senior White House official 
    said that Trump’s statement…
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    “merely acknowledged that oil from the 
    Strait of Hormuz won’t be disrupted,
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    and is not a signal of sanctions relief.”
    Or a signal of relief for future equally brutal nicknames
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    . Leave your comments below 
    about what nickname Trump should use for Xi.
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    (shuffles papers)
    And after the break,
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    China’s tensions with Taiwan 
    are reaching a breaking point.
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    Welcome back.
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    (shuffles papers)
    Taiwanese President
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    William Lai is urging unity in 
    protecting Taiwan from the CCP threat.
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    At an important speech earlier this week,
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    President Lai called for solidarity among 
    many of the island’s different factions and
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    urged different parties to find 
    common ground in challenging the CCP.
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    At least while their ground is common
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    before 
    China launches an invasion and tries to snatch it.
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    Lai reiterated that the CCP’s stance 
    on Taiwan is based on expansionism
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    and stressed that it is up to the Taiwanese 
    people to determine their identity and future.
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    This was just one of a series of 
    ten speeches aimed at rallying
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    support for Taiwanese security.
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    And 
    obviously, the CCP was not pleased.
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    Meanwhile, China and Taiwan 
    are also clashing over history,
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    with China saying it can’t invade 
    what is already its own territory.
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    So by China’s logic, if they try to 
    invade Taiwan and get pushed back,
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    would that just be China screwing itself?
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    (shuffles papers)
    A 26-day Chinese dual
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    Pacific carrier deployment has just wrapped up.
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    This truly was a historic drill, with a huge 
    amount of warships going farther than ever,
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    and the Liaoning aircraft carrier 
    going the farthest it ever has!
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    The Shandong aircraft carrier was 
    also present in the deployment.
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    Shocker, the ships also infringed on 
    Japan’s exclusive economic zone, or EEZ,
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    which prompted Japanese assets, 
    such as ships, to shadow the PLAN.
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    Considering how often China 
    enters other nation’s space,
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    I can’t tell if they’re growing more bold
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    or 
    are just the crappiest navigators on the planet.
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    This isn’t just about intimidating 
    Taiwan or other countries in the region
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    . It’s about demonstrating how 
    capable China’s military has become…
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    and that it still wants to become a blue-water
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    navy capable of projecting 
    power far off of its shores.
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    So, the CCP is putting Japan, Australia, and the 
    US,
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    along with other strong rivals, on notice.
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    And I guess that notice is, 
    “Hey, we’re still pricks,
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    but now we can be pricks at 
    an even greater distance!”
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    But not everyone is standing idly by.
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    The UK sent the…
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    HMS Spey, an offshore patrol vessel, 
    to transit through the Taiwan Strait.
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    This is the first time in four years that Britain 
    has conducted such a transit through the area.
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    A statement from the Ministry of 
    Foreign Affairs in Taiwan said,
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    “through this concrete action, the United Kingdom 
    further defended freedom of navigation
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    in the Taiwan Strait and demonstrated its firm position
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    that the strait constitutes international waters.”
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    Now if they would just cancel that mega embassy,
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    the UK would have a solid win on their side.
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    And me saying that, as an American this close to 
    the fourth of July, is already a pretty big win.
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    (shuffles papers)
    But China has even more kung pao beef with Taiwan!
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    It’s vowing forceful measures 
    after Taiwan’s Huawei export curb.
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    Last week, Taiwan joined Washington’s years-long 
    campaign
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    to hamper the technological rise of the Chinese Communist Party
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    . The island started 
    by adding two companies to its entity list,
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    which stops Taiwan’s firms from doing 
    business with them without a license.
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    The companies in question?
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    AI and 
    chip-making champions Huawei and
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    Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
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    This is the first time ever 
    that major Chinese businesses
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    have been placed on Taiwan’s entity list!
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    Apparently, years of spying, shady business 
    practices,
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    and threatening military drills make people think, “
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    Yeah, I think I’d rather 
    do business with literally anyone else.”
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    I’m sure the US is pleased, 
    although China, of course,
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    has called the move despicable.
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    I don’t know 
    why, though. By their logic, Taiwan is China,
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    so this is China putting sanctions 
    on itself.
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    Quit criticizing yourself.
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    A spokeswoman with China’s Taiwan 
    Affairs Office on Wednesday said that,
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    “we will take forceful measures to 
    resolutely safeguard the normal order
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    of cross-strait economic and trade exchange.”
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    While she didn’t elaborate any further on what that meant
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    , she did suggest that 
    the CCP would push forward with
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    its efforts anyways and that such a move 
    will only harm Taiwan’s competitiveness.
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    Which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense,
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    given 
    Taiwan’s recent semiconductor investments in the US
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    Whatever the case, the CCP will just use this as an excuse to continue its 
    regional aggression
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    . And the more they do,
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    the more influence they’ll lose.
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    And that’ll be sad, because like a 50 year-old former social media influencer,
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    they never developed a personality.
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    (shuffles papers)
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