This is cnn immigration, the economy, abortion, and masculinity. I'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. It's labor day weekend. Usually this marks the start of the final dash toward election day. But of course we haven't stopped sprinting all summer long despite all the effort and expenditures by the candidates and their campaigns, the presidential election is neck and neck several polls were released at the end of this week and they all tell a similar story a new usa today suffolk poll shows vice president harris ahead of former president trump nationally 48, 43 big shifts from hispanic, black, and young voters are helping harris. But the biggest change came from lowerincome voters they supported donald trump over joe biden by three percentage points back in june harris now leading in that demographic, 58 to 35%, casting a 23 point advantage then there's a new wall street journal poll, which also shows harris with a narrow lead over trump 48, 47. That's in a headtohead match up the national polls are interesting, but of course, presidents get elected in the electoral college. So all eyes remain on seven battleground states. Bloomberg news and morning consult have harris leading in six of the seven battleground states, a tie with trump in arizona. Harris is largest margin is in the state of wisconsin where she leads by eight the harris campaign clearly has the momentum, but many of these polls, they fall within the margin of error nevertheless, because of the advantage republicans enjoy in the electoral college, polling guru nate silver's forecast predicts that it's donald trump, who has a 52. 4% chance of winning the electoral college compared to harris's 47. 3% back in 2020, silvers forecast model predicted at about labor day weekend that biden had a 71% chance of beating trump than again in 2016, he gave hillary clinton essentially the same odds the gender divide. That is reflected in the candidates themselves is mirrored in polling among young americans writing for the new york times this week, claire cain miller, observe the following quote. In some ways, this presidential election has become a referendum on gender roles and the generation with the biggest difference in opinion between male and female voters is generation z. On one side or young women who has a group or very liberal, they've been politically galvanized by gender bombshells like hashtag metoo, the overturning of roe versus wade, and the candidacy of vice president kamala harris on the other are young men, some of whom field at rapidly changing gender roles have left them behind socially and economically and see former president donald j. Trump as a champion of traditional manhood. A recent new york times sienna college poll finds young voters have the greatest gender divide compared to every other age group it's 51 points. In other words, men between the ages of 18 and 29, they favor former president trump over vice president harris by 13 points. Women in the same age group are choosing harris over trump by 38 points since women started entering the workforce pursuing higher education in larger numbers in the 70s, young women today are making strides and economic equality earning more college degrees than men and serving more often as their families primary breadwinner men on the other hand, are working less. Many are living without a spouse or a partner a pew study found less than a fififth of americans believe that the progress women have made in society came at the expense of men. But 40% of men supporting trump between the ages of 18 and 49 do believe the progress of women came at their expense? and trump has been trying to reach out to this demographic doing podcasts and golfing with the nelke boys, joking around with theo van appearing on youtube with jake and logan paul, as well as with streamers like aid and ross reaching the millions of young men who follow these social media personalities as the new york times put it, these repeated collisions of testosteronefuel ed orbits are a campaign strategy not a coincidence look that are young men today are struggling in comparison to young women it's borne out in the data raising the question of whether it's time for a targeted intervention. Consider that at the democratic party website, there's a list under the heading who we serve of 16 different demographic groups. They include africanamericans, the faith community, lgbtq, plus community rural americans, and women but not men. Which brings me to today's poll question at smerconish. Com. Our policy solutions necessary to address the plight of young men who are underperforming in schools and leading unhealthier lives than young women go vote. Joining me now is nyu business school professor scott galloway, host of the podcast prof. G scott, of course, has been at the forefront of discussions about the plight of young men who feel forgotten, great to have you back, that claire cain miller, piece in the new york times, i thought really interesting because the men in this category a, whom she interviewed, she said they're not massage dentist. They're more focused on the economy and what they perceive to be their lack of economic opportunity. Will you speak to that issue? great to see you. Michael. Yeah, it's interesting. It would be incorrect to assume that it's that it's men want to go back to the past and are some way this isn't the only veiled misogyny as a matter of fact, among gen z millennial men they're very supportive of gender equality so it's not that they're moving towards the republican party. They feel abandoned by the democratic party. And that is, if you have a group, the democratic party right now, michael is facing the same issues as some of the dei apparatus at universities and that is when you are purposely and explicitly advocating for 76% of the population are you advocating for them or you discriminating against the 24 24%? and that's how i think a lot of young men feel. Quite frankly, they just don't feel seen by the democratic party to the issue of economics. You referenced college we're pretty soon with these trends. We're going to have to 21 female to male college grads women in urban areas under the age of 30 are now making more money than men, more single women own homes than men. And by the way, those are wonderful things. And most men don't, don't resend, resent that. But what they see a huge apparatus and resources and rhetoric in very inspiring speeches about the importance of advocating for every single group but young men yeah, it doesn't seem to be a popular position to carry that flag. And i want to show you something i'll read it aloud in case you don't have return, there was a headline in the new york times, trump courts, the man averse. There it is. Big story, well done story and i took a look, scott at some of the the comments. And this one caught my eye because it was typical, put that up on the screen, catherine. So this person said that headline says it all. A bunch of bros. With fake jobs, preaching to a bunch of bros. With no jobs being courted by a tiny man who has never held a job that he was qualified for and i could read you ten like that more than ten like that and i think that's part of the reason why there's this mindset out there, like screw these guys. They don't need assistance. Many of them are young white men. They've been privileged to begin with what would you say to those who aren't showing the sympathy for the demographic, we're talking about. It's simple. Should a 19yearold who has fewer opportunities, educationally fewer opportunities professionally, what happened to would not an auto shop you have an education system that's highly biased against them boys are twice as likely on a behavior adjusted basis to be suspended as girls think about what we want in education, we want someone who's organized, who's a pleaser, who sits down, who's not disruptive. You basically describe you basically described a girl. So the question is do we believe empathy as a zero sum game? and that is gay marriage didn't hurt heteronormative marriage. Civil rights didn't hurt white people. And should a 19yearold with fewer economic and romantic opportunities? pay the price for the privilege that you and me enjoyed michael. That's the key question. Are we are we is a time for them to pay back the wrongs of the past, or do we in fact decide that we cannot have a society that flourishes, women cannot flourish when men are floundering. So the notion that somehow this group who is committing suicide, can you imagine any group michael, there was killing themselves at four times the rate of the control group and it not being a discussion. How many times did we hear about breaking the glass ceiling and that who's going to tell president trump that that job he's seeking might be a black job. Those are inspiring, righteous words. Did anybody on stage at the democratic convention? mentioned the very real issues young men are facing. And this is the opportunity this is a battle. It was supposed to be a battle over over a new form of kind of liberating women. We thought that was going to be defining issue in this campaign. Bodily autonomy. It's turning into masculinity and different visions of masculinity and then there's a huge opportunity here. Because while trump has embraced the manosphere walz to the democrats credit is portraying a form of masculinity more around protection and service. And that is a wonderful definition of masculinity and that is the opportunity for democrats first, they have to acknowledge the problem young men i have fallen faster than any demographic in america over the last 40 years. And to embrace a more modern form of masculinity and to lean into it catherine, will you put back on the screen the dnc portion of the website that i referenced earlier that shows the 16 demographic groups because i want to i want to ask scott should young men beyond the list with latinos, ethnic americans, native americans, rural americans, seniors, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera i mean, do we need it's my poll question today. Do we need a targeted approach, a policy approach by both parties to address the situation that you've given a platform i personally think quite frankly, i think that list is one thing. I think it's stupid. I think when you say we're advocating for basically everybody, but one group, you aren't advocating for those special interest groups. You're discriminating against one, it should be about freedom it should be about opportunity for the middleclass. It should be about lifting up our young people. I don't think you want i mean, specific programs that target young man. I think i just too politically charged. But for example, the democrats don't take credit where they should 70% of the jobs created by the infrastructure act are going to be for a man who don't necessarily have college degrees, but they don't want to talk about it. So i think this is i think we need to move away from quite frankly the politics of identity to the politics of america. The same is true at universities. I don't think the university of california in 1997 did away with racebased affirmative action and went to incomebased or averse based affirmative action. I think that's a role for the democratic party instead of calling out specific observable traits and say, we're promoting this group and this group and this group, but not this one moved to okay, young people are 24% less wealthy than they were 40 years ago versus plus 70 roads or 72% wealthier young families are struggling at 3 million men between age of 25 and 34 are no longer even seeking employment. One out of three unmanned doesn't have a girlfriend two out of three young women under the age of 30 do have a girlfriend because they're dating older from our economically and emotionally viable men. So we need programs that lift up all young people, but we need to move away from this identity politics because it's not about up promoting or advocating. It's turned into reverse discrimination when you, when you do this. And i mean this with the highest praise, i have to go back and watch the tape because you just hit me with so much good data that i want to write it all down and put up on the screen, the social media reaction because i might want to lean on scott for the response before he leaves thus, here it is, sounds like more coddling of fragile male egos and a form of affirmative action. Say, this is typical, scott, this is just like all those comments in the new york times quote, maybe if boys and young men spent more time studying and less time bullying others, gaming are trying to get laid. They'd be better educated and you would say what replace the term young men with blacks are gays, are women and see the reaction you would get from a statement like that i mean again we're not going to have a productive society. If young men aren't engaging with school, they're not engaging with work and they're not engaging with women the whole shooting match is that america is a platform such that people can get together and informed, loving, deep and meaningful relationships. That is, that is why you have an economy to create a middleclass such that young people can build nice lives and one of the keys to building a productive life is the ability to find a partner and the reality is we don't talk about kind of the core issue here and it's mating and that is women made socioeconomically horizontally and up man, horizontal and down. And when the pool of horizontal and up keeps shrinking, young people aren't connecting how many times have you heard people signed a wonderful women and they can't find a man. Sure, they can find a man. They just can't find a man. They want you know, who wants more economically and emotionally viable men, women, ask any mother who has to girls and one boy, it's time to lift up young people. Empathy is not a zerosum game. You're the best. Thank you for being here as always thank you, michael. Great to see you you too. I want to know what you think. Go to my website right now. You've had the briefing like, i hope you didn't already vote. I hope you didn't already vote because i want you to have the benefit of scott's thinking and now oh go to my website. At smerconish. Com and answer today's question, i feel like at the outset of the program, when i hit you with it like where the hell is this coming from? but now you got the whole understanding our policy solutions necessary to address the plight of young men who are now underperforming in schools and leading unhealthier lives then young women up ahead, donald trump's latest visit to the arlington national cemetery has some arguing over his motives for attending the event. But my next guest disagree fries with the criticism. She is the motherinlaw of nicole gee, a marine killed in the line of duty during the u. S. Evacuation from afghanistan in 2021, my guest, christy shamblin, recently spoke at the rnc he allowed us to grieve. He allowed us to remember our heroes donald trump knew all our children's names for the first time since nichols death. 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Military service members who were killed in afghanistan at kabul airport's abbey gate that was august 26, 2020. 13 of the 13 are buried at the arlington national cemetery former president donald trump visited the cemetery following a leaf rang ceremony to honor those who lost their lives that day, he did so at the invitation of the families a video of the visit posted by the trump campaign on tiktok showed the former president walking through arlington and visiting grave sites. It's a violation of federal law to use cemetery footage for campaign purposes prior to trump's visit to section 60. That's an area in the cemetery largely reserved for the graves of those who served in iraq and afghanistan. Campaign officials were made aware of federal laws which prohibit political campaign or electionrelated the activities they were asked not to take photos or videos for that purpose, the grams are considered sacred and hallowed. An army spokesperson said, an employee who attempted to ensure adherence to these rules was abruptly pushed aside. The statement goes on to say consistent with the decorum expected at anc, this employee acted with professional journalism and avoided further disruption. The incident was reported to the police department, but the employee subsequently decided not to press charges. Therefore, the army considers this matter closed since monday accounts from the scene have varied. Former president trump has insisted there was no violation of l law. Communications directr for the trump campaign, steven cheung posted on x that the campaign was granted access to have a photographer there. Chung also disputed claims of a physical altercation and has said there's video to back this up, yet none has been released thus far former president trump published a statement on truth, social from five family members, thanking him for making the visit and saying, we are deeply grateful to the president for taking the time to honor our children and for standing alongside us in our grief, offering his unwavering support during such a difficult time joining me now is one of those family members, christy shamblin? motherinlaw of marine corps sergeant nicole gee. Gee, aged 23, was deployed to afghanistan where she served as a female engagement team member to help facilitate evacuations, support for afghan women and children. She was killed in a suicide attack along with 12 other service members that day, leaving behind a husband, kristie. Thank you so much for being here. Please tell me about nicole thank you for having me nicole was a ray of light. She was an encourager. She believed and having a positive mental attitude. And she was so very proud to be serving on with effect team in afghanistan. She was very, very proud to serve there and they all worked so hard to get the most vulnerable out of that country before certain death. And we're very proud of her and we want to continue on her legacy and being encouraging and having a positive mental attitude i'm so sorry for your loss and i'm trying to understand what exactly went on on monday. You wanted the former president there, by the way, i think it's a wonderful thing that he was there reflective and honoring our war dead but it crossed a line at some point. How do you see it well, first i want to remind everybody that it's really hard to find a way on august 26 to celebrate and we want to celebrate our heroes we invited both president trump and the bidenharris administration and we didn't hear back from the white house. We were happy to welcome president trump to lay wreaths with all three of our families and are wounded. Some of our wounded from that day. And when he came to section 60 it was at our request to spend time with our loved ones. There was not a press presence there. We privately took pictures among ourselves and it was a more celebratory feeling for that day because we wanted to celebrate our loved ones and it's very hard to find ways to do that at a cemetery. But they were very respectful we didn't see any altercation and really we just want our loved ones to be honored and remembered in a positive way so i hear and respect all of that at the same time, i have to say he should not have used the video that was recorded in tiktok for a campaign purpose can we agree on that i'm not on tiktok, so i don't know what it is. But yeah, you know, there's no political campaigning that was done at section 60 that day right? it was a respected i'm showing i'm showing i'm showing what was put on tiktok so that the audience can see it. And i recognize you might not be able to see it. We didn't lose one person in 18 months says the narration, and then they took over that disaster, the leaving of afghanistan we lost 13 great, great people. I mean, it's got a message of saying, i did right? by. Our soldiers and he biden or biden and harris did not. I mean, up until that point, i like i like get it. It's great that he's their family members want pictures terrific. Take the pictures, do whatever the family members one. But he shouldn't have put it on tiktok for a political purpose. Well, you know, i just have to go back to we really just want our kids to be remembered and honored and it's unfortunate that we can't get that, you know, in other ways so we support president trump and he's supported us a final question if i might, do you worry that the issue the legitimate issue of the way in which we left afghanistan and the circumstances three years ago at abbey gate now sort of diminishes as an issue because when people think of afghanistan, the withdrawal, it'll be the controversy over arlington instead of a very appropriate focus on the death of those 13 final thought on that i think our media needs to do a better job of focusing on the afghanistan withdrawal instead of things like this that aren't really relevant or important. I mean, we were very respectful. I understand that there may have been a little bit of a misunderstanding, but we'd like to take the focus back to just like you said, let's talk about how we left all the equipment behind. Let's talk about the americans and the afghans we left behind. Let's talk about the people we brought over that weren't bedded. Let's talk about the wounded and that's what we want to bring focus back to. I appreciate that because that's exactly what we want the american people to focus on. We want our armed service members to be safer we will have another evacuation. And if we don't start to focus on how to fix this, it will end in more casualties and that's unacceptable. Kristie godspeed to you, your family in particular, your son. Thank you for being here thank you very much okay. Moving along now yeah, that's that's the hosts request for some teleprompter advice in terms of where we are going next. There we go. Still to come in a fiery letter to the house judiciary committee, mark zuckerberg says, meta won't be making the same mistakes this election cycle. So what should zuckerberg's top priority be combating misinformation or for maintaining neutrality. 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I never remember to say this, but follow me on x. I'm there. Can't we just teach all children to the best of our ability, dems always want to pick winners and losers when government education experts in the media leet focus on one group to the detriment of another. It reminds me of reagan's. I'm from the government and i'm here to help hashtag stop. Okay. But exactly what you said scott galloway makes the point that if it were any other group with the same data if there were any other group that we're affected in the way that our young men are being impacted. Fill in the blank with another group. They'd be championing that cause they meaning both parties. I mean, how about the idea that you know, 16 different demographic groups are identified at the dnc website. Go to demagogue democrats. Org under the headline, who we serve except one and i get it. You're watching tv and you're saying, oh, good, i got to bald white guys raising the flag to take better care of young men well, we are because nobody else is making the pitch. Nobody else's making the case, but the data all tells the same story. And one of the things that i wanted to say to scott that i neglected to say. Richard reeves has written a book called of boys and men. He's been a guest on this program and npr this week talking about this same issue, it's in my newsletter today as a matter of fact reports that melinda gates foundation has given a billion to cause us to help women. And richard reeves has a think tank that was also a beneficiary. And he says that may seem strange to some that money that's allocated for women actually ended up going to mind i think tank. But the point that it makes is that this is a rising tide for everybody as scott said, what would be best for our young women is if our young men were doing better. I'm sorry, i got longwinded, hit me with another one the eye. I'm passionate about the subject two smerconish, the women will turn out, the men will stay home and it's, it's interesting the approach of the parties to this catherine. Do we have dana white his introduction of donald trump, if they can roll that tape, if you what i want to make a point? i'm the tough guy business. And this ban is the most resilient human being. I've ever met in my life so that's, you know, that's one approach, right? the testosterone approach that's being used by republicans to motivate the base that i'm talking about. But as i discussed with scott galloway, tim walz represents a different approach in terms of here's the coach they brought up the players on stage and coming at it from more of a what would i say? empathetic standpoint the point is that both parties are totally dialed into the demographics that i discussed at the outset of the program today, there is this enormous gender divide among gen z bigger than any other age group as they look at the election keep your social media coming. I'll read some more during the course of the program still to come what president trump, former president trump has to say about mark zuckerberg in a soon to be released new book and the social network x was just banned in brazil after elon musk refused a judge's order to suspend certain accounts, we're going to discuss all of this with coauthor of that great book, the canceling of the american mind. Greg lukianoff is here and make sure you're voting on today's poll question at smerconish. 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Cnn this morning with kasie hunt, weekdays at five eastern maricopa, former president trump unleashing new attacks against meta ceo mark zuckerberg for facebook's involvement in the last election cycle trump's new book called save america comes out next week and features this image of the former president was zuckerberg inside the oval office. Trump writes in the caption that zucker the berg plotted against him during his reelection campaign and warns zuckerberg, quote, if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison as well. Others who cheat in the 2024 presidential election zuckerberg now vowing to not repeat the same mistakes his company made during the covid19 pandemic. And the 2020 presidential election in a letter this week to house judiciary committee chair jim jordan zuckerberg writes, in 2021, senior officials from the biden administration, including the white house, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain covid19 content, including humor and satire and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down. We own our decisions. I believe the government pressure was wrong and i regret that were not more outspoken about it. In a separate issue, the facebook founder also said that his company should have never demoted a new york post story that covered corruption allegations against hunter biden that were discovered on a laptop during the 2020 presidential election the fbi had warned meetup about a potential russian disinformation hack against the bidens. But further reporting later proved the russians had nothing to do with those allegations the gop also criticized zuckerberg for donating more than 400 million to help nonprofits run local elections in urban, rural, and suburban communities during the pandemic republicans claimed that money unfairly benefited democrats. Zuckerberg ended his letter with this. My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another, or to even appear to be playing a role. So i don't plan on making a similar contribution. This cycle joining me now is greg lukianoff a free speech advocate who is president and ceo of the foundation for individual rights and expression. He is the co author of a great book called the canceling of the american mind. Greg great to see you again. In striking a balance between content moderation or maintaining neutrality. He is saying, i'm coming down on the side of neutrality. I imagine you think that's the right way to go oh, absolutely. Because basically, if people see social media companies as censoring speech on a political basis, they're never going to trust them ever. And here's the, here's the one frustrating thing about this. And i want to say this directly to mark zuckerberg that essentially next time the government tries to coerce you into censorship, please sue. There was an important case in front of the government. I'm for the supreme court this summer called murthy v. Missouri that was the lawsuit on procedural grounds because they found that the people saying that they were censored because the government pressured social media to censor them didn't have standing. But if mark zuckerberg of facebook had decided to sue in that case we would have won and by we i mean the american public i see it the same way you see it. Let me be devil's advocate. I mean, i take the position that a marketplace of ideas allows misinformation, disinformation to be combated when i talked about this on my sirius xm radio program this week, i had callers who said, wait a minute, if we're in the midst of a pandemic and we're trying to save lives. And there's bad information out there that could kill people, then surely you would want x or you will want facebook, you would want tiktok, whomever to squelch it. Your response would be what to that? there's an idea that essentially it's hindsight is 2020 that essentially now we know that a lot of the things that we thought during covid, where we're wrong, but we couldn't have known that at the time. But that's rewriting history. There were so many things that we had every reason to be concerned about it at the time that maybe are overall policy what was too restrictive, maybe we could have isolated at more to protect him the most vulnerable. It now seems like we did an awful lot of things wrong and if we're allowed to if we treated the american public like adults, and let them talk about this and understand and actually make the point. We don't know everything about this let's have a discussion about it. We could have actually potentially avoided having the worst of both worlds where we didn't protect the american public very well from covid, but we also engaged in an absolutely massive restriction on peoples liberties i don't think it's possible to fully and effectively police all this content. And i'm reflective of a book, great book called facebook by steven levy. He's an editor at wired, was a guest of mine on this program and maybe this is a dated story, but in phoenix, arizona, he goes into a facility where there are people just lined up in cubicles. Employees of facebook, and making 42nd decisions as to what to take down when you can't police at all. And then you police some of it. You can't help but put your thumb on the scale of one side or another that's why i come out on the side of saying, give us neutrality and will excuse you the policing responsibility completely agreed. And that's one of the major points we make in canceling of the american mind is that we've devastated americans trust in our collective world effects partially because if they realized the even the government is pressuring social media companies to censor arguments that later turned out to have a point. They're never going to trust you again. Okay. Can the government, at least ask, not tell, but asked if the government in trying to protect us at the time of a pandemic to use the hypothetical, a very real hypothetical, if they see information that that is going to do harm is it okay that they call silicon valley loosely described and say, hey, you're putting out things that are going to kill people. You know, i'm a civil liberties lawyers. So basically one thing that you don't just trust the government on a lot of cases do i think that they can ask absolutely i think they can, but i think that there should be a law or at least a regulation saying that if the government is contacting social media companies and asking them to censor things that should be transparent and there should be a record of that the context in both of these instances, one was the pandemic and facebook being pressured by the biden administration. The second was, of course, the hunter laptop if if the hunter laptop or loosely described a political scenario should raise its head again in the next 60 or so hayes how do you think social media platforms are going to react this time around? i mean now you've got musk in control of x. It'll be different, right? i think it would be completely different. I think x would would definitely not suppress it. I don't think facebook would do that again, i think that people are social media companies feel badly burned and the american public was pretty outraged about that. So i think it would be very different this time around. Hopefully, greg greg lukianoff. Thank you. As always, enjoy when you're here. Thank you, michael today's poll question, have you voted yet? it's we're corninish. Com. I've no idea how it turns out. I'm a little concerned about people who voted before i even came on air. Before they heard what scott galloway had to say because i thought he made a very compelling case on this issue are policy solutions necessary to dress the plight of young men who are now underperforming in schools and leading unhealthier lives than young women go vote when you're there, sign up for my newsletter steve breen been is one of our editorial cartoonists. 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There's the results so far. We've got 31. I like this. It's close, 31,769 votes cast our policy solutions necessary to address the plight of young men who are now underperforming in schools and leading unhealthier lives than young women. 52% say no, but 48% say yes, i, if nothing else, i think we started this conversation and that's a good thing. And scott galloway was a great guest, so thank you for voting. Keep voting. I'll leave the question up through the rest of the day. What else has come in in terms of social media response? what do we have, catherine? critical topic and a great discussion on your, wow, this seems complimentary. How did this get through? the data on the plight of young men, suicide rate, et cetera, cannot be ignored. The lack of empathy expressed by many for the trouble is very sad. It is greg nichols if, as scott said, if it were any other demographic group, i think that people will be saying my god, it's a fivealarm fire. 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