We are in the midst of America\u2019s biggest moral panic since 2001. I call it the influencer apocalypse because it was triggered by the assassination of influencer Charlie Kirk, but also because it\u2019s the death of innocence for the young influencer class.<\/p>\n
And because there is a truly apocalyptic collision between generations who communicate in utterly different mediums and have very divergent politics from that of their elders.<\/p>\n
Now that the U.S. is running out of money, power, and moral standing, the empire is boomeranging home<\/a>. <\/p>\n Kirk was \u2018hammered\u2019 at Hamptons meeting this August for his growing criticism of Israeli influence\u201d<\/p>\n The Trump administration is seizing on the moment to proscribe speech<\/a> as Yves Smith warned earlier at Naked Capitalism.<\/p>\n The MSM and the GOP are encouraging a revival of the cancel culture of the 2010s, but this time aimed at their enemies.<\/p>\n They are combining the online cancel culture tactics of the 2010s<\/a> with an attempted mainstream media clampdown reminiscent of the post-9\/11 build up to the Global War on Terror.<\/p>\n The timing was perfect as Americans are in the habit of working themselves up into a frenzy in the autumn. 9\/11 has been drained of cultural power by two decades of strident jingoism and once forbidden counter-narratives have enduring power<\/a>.<\/p>\n Time will tell if the murder of a social media influencer will give the right comparable license for abuse as the most spectacular terrorist attack of the millennium thus far.<\/p>\n Outlets like The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the Guardian<\/a>, CNN<\/a>, and the New York Post<\/a> didn\u2019t wait to find out, they just dove right in, credulously reporting misinformation direct from anonymous law enforcement sources and the Republican Governor of Utah.<\/p>\n The retractions were plentiful<\/a> but always tastefully limited to updates<\/a> on older posts so as not to distract<\/a> from the narrative.<\/p>\n The centrists lept in to provide moral support too. At least two Democratic governors (Shapiro in Pennsylvania<\/a> and Polis in Colorado<\/a>) announced flags would be flying at half-mast on September 11 \u201cin memory of 9\/11 and Charlie Kirk.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course 2028 presidential front runner Gavin Newsom, who hosted Kirk on the first episode of his podcast, had to get in on the action.<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/QMtqghb2Lq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n pic.twitter.com\/edO03AsM7X<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Head Abundance Bro Ezra Klein lauding Kirk for \u201cPracticing Politics the Right Way\u201d<\/a> on the op-ed pages of The New York Times. <\/p>\n But Klein\u2019s own readership resisted his praise for Kirk\u2019s style of politics.<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/t9cXDSOu7b<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) September 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I first realized things were serious when former George W. Bush pollster Matthew Dowd<\/a> was fired by MSNBC for his remarks on Kirk\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n None of the coverage that I\u2019ve seen mentions Dowd\u2019s resume beyond MSNBC pundit. <\/p>\n They however, do link to his Bluesky apology<\/a> though. Of course he\u2019s on Blueskey. <\/p>\n Along with Karl Rove and fellow wayward Texas Democrat Mark McKinnon, Dowd architected both of the younger Bush\u2019s presidential elections.<\/p>\n Dowd\u2019s shrewd and cynical poll-reading drove the divisive \u201cbase strategy\u201d<\/a> that helped Bush win re-election by focusing on culture war issues designed to bitterly divide the electorate. <\/p>\n Dowd, a titan of the cable television era of politics, rode the wave of the 2001-2003 moral panic and now he\u2019s been washed out by the moral panic of 2025.<\/p>\n Kirk, for his part, is an avatar of a more recent, but equally spent era: the social media 2010s, the age of woke.<\/p>\n As Slate\u2019s Luke Winkie wrote in \u201cCharlie Kirk Was a Trump Force Like No Other. It\u2019s Clear What Comes Now<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s impossible to overstate Kirk\u2019s influence. The Republican Party\u2019s unlikely rebrand into a movement of anti-institutionalist outsiders challenging the supposed groupthink of the liberal orthodoxy can be traced in some ways back to Kirk, who got his start as a teenager during the tea party movement. The version of conservatism he inherited was defined by cranks and nerds in the waning years of the Obama era, and it was surprisingly pliable to his touch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Kirk was a victim of the neo-liberal Silicon Valley alliance that powered cancel culture in Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n 1. TWITTER FILES: THE MUZZLING OF CHARLIE KIRK<\/p>\n As the @nytimes<\/a> noted in its infamous obituary, Charlie Kirk was temporarily removed from Twitter in March, 2020. But that wasn’t the only episode\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/anMHbqDqJA<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Matt Taibbi is as lost in that bygone era as Kirk, but he\u2019s still posting about it.<\/p>\n Brian Merchant of Blood in the Machine wrote a eulogy for the communications era just past, \u201cThe killing of Charlie Kirk and the end of the \u201cglobal town square\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n it was a clarifying event with regard to the current State of Social Media, three years after Musk\u2019s takeover of Twitter, its remaking as X, and its subsequent balkanization into various platform fiefs. It dispelled some curiously persistent delusions in the process, and zealously introduced the new elements that seem to me to be poised to limit the further effective simulation of a user\u2019s participation in history.<\/p>\n \u2026 Yesterday, at 12:27, Musk tweeted \u201cThe Left is the party of murder,\u201d before there was any evidence at all about the killer\u2019s identity, or regarding his motives or ideological leanings, or that \u201cThe Left\u201d is in fact a political party. Nonetheless, it helped pave the way for a stream of vitriol and calls to violence from some of X\u2019s biggest accounts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n pic.twitter.com\/J7mSO7R5aO<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In an essay that now seems quaint despite being published just weeks ago, the editor of a new liberal magazine, The Argument, inaugurated the publication with a call for its new readers to stay on X, for the sake of debate: \u201cTwitter is \u2014 without question \u2014 the most influential public square we have\u2026 Those who leave Twitter are sacrificing their ability to advocate for the change they seek.\u201d Scanning the posts above, from some of the largest accounts on the platform, as well as from its owner, I hope it\u2019s obvious enough that the only reason these folks are taking to any kind of public square is to assemble a firing squad.<\/p>\n Right-wing activists are now taking the social posts of people they believe to be \u201ccelebrating\u201d Kirk\u2019s death\u2014many are just posting the activists\u2019 own past quotes\u2014entering them into a database, and posting their personal details online.<\/p>\n There was no meaningful debate, besides perhaps between fellow traveler liberals, and certainly no detectible impulse towards democracy. Whether or not it\u2019s *ethical* to stay on X is another question, but the aftermath of the Kirk killing shows us why we\u2019d do well to dismantle our model of X as a place where debates are had, needles are moved, and political progress is possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Yasha Lavine\u2019s \u201cThe Spectacle Made Flesh\u201d<\/a> explains why Kirk\u2019s death is sending such shockwaves through the elite of old-line media and the younger generation alike:<\/p>\n The hit did something I haven\u2019t seen before. It spooked the political influencers. They are scared. Many of them spent last night issuing lengthy, serious statements on X about the gravity of the situation. Some of them are calling it a 9\/11 event \u2014 a 9\/11 for the influencer class.<\/p>\n Political assassinations are one thing. Killing a president, however horrible, was seen as within the rules of \u201cthe game.\u201d But influencers? Political commentators? They were supposed to be a protected class. Their free speech was supposed to matter. It was supposed to be protected by \u201cthe rules.\u201d Many of them see themselves in Charlie Kirk. And they are clearly afraid for their lives. The world \u2014 their world \u2014 has turned upside down. Nothing will be the same to them. And it\u2019s not just the influencers on Charlie Kirk\u2019s team. The liberal and left wings of the influencer class are panicking, too. If a righty influencer can be whacked, so can they. The rules have changed.<\/p>\n \u2026<\/p>\n The political influencer is a relatively new phenomenon. Bigger and more numerous and more visible as a class than the talk radio guys and a lot more unhinged than the cable news personalities, they\u2019ve risen to the top of the Spectacle \u2014 made possible by the monopolistic communications technologies that we all now inhabit. Many of them are completely self-made, talented, coming from \u201cthe people\u201d with a gift for sensing what their people want to hear and projecting emotional connection. They are kings and queens of the Spectacle now \u2014 agitating the mass psychosis, exploiting the alienation, pain, and anger that\u2019s surging through the population. They\u2019ve been stirring the psychic oceans, working up surges and storms, and then riding these waves to fame and money and political power.<\/p>\n Throughout their short existence, they have been insulated from the psychic madness they\u2019ve pumped into the Spectacle. They\u2019ve been secure in their nice neighborhoods and big houses and elite institutions, certain that the people they\u2019ve trapped with the Spectacle are too distracted, too enchanted, too zombified\u2026 But this Charlie Kirk assassination changed something for them. It\u2019s dawning on them that the Spectacle is not just an abstract entity. They are realizing deep down inside that the Spectacle can be made flesh. And that flesh can be killed. And that this flesh can be theirs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Taylor Lorenz tries to remind her readers of recent history in Let\u2019s talk about \u2018political violence\u2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n As countless people on X have pointed out, political violence is America\u2019s default setting.<\/p>\n When political leaders and the media wring their hands about \u201cpolitical violence,\u201d they\u2019re not actually talking about violence in any universal sense. They\u2019re usually only talking about violence against elites or people who maintain existing power structures.<\/p>\n The violence that is already a daily feature of life for poor, Black, immigrant, disabled, and queer communities is invisible to them. This double standard has always been there, and it\u2019s why so many people, especially in countries that we\u2019ve inflicted horrific levels of violence upon abroad, hate the American government. But cell phones and social media have finally made this hypocrisy crystal clear to more and more average Americans. The reality is that political violence has escalated over the past five years, but not in the way politicians are characterizing it.<\/p>\n When the pandemic started in 2020, violence against marginalized people accelerated. Immigrants, people of color, and the poor were (and are still!) being sent into deadly workplaces with no airborne disease protections. Prisoners, nursing home residents, and hospital patients are still being left to die of COVID in facilities with zero airborne disease mitigations.<\/p>\n When Joe Biden took office, rather than mitigate the violence of an ongoing pandemic, he forced people back to work and gave COVID funding to the police. He successfully convinced liberals (and even leftists!) to completely devalue the lives of people around them. The government got the American public to dehumanize each other so successfully that many people today believe that it\u2019s morally neutral to infect and kill, or permanently maim, those around them by spreading airborne disease because they don\u2019t like wearing a mask. Killing and disabling millions of Americans by furthering the spread of an airborne vascular disease is also violence. The ongoing pandemic is violence.<\/p>\n After George Floyd was brutally murdered in 2020, millions of people took to the streets to demand an end to racist police killings. What they were met with, was an unprecedented wave of state-sanctioned violence.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security deployed tactical teams into cities. Police kettled, beat, and arrested journalists. Protesters were shot point blank with \u201cless-lethal\u201d munitions, losing eyes and sustaining permanent injuries. People died in protest-related incidents. Yet none of those deaths were mourned by the mainstream media as martyrs of democracy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Lorenz also chides the MSM.<\/p>\n 99% of MSM journalists think that being “hyper plugged into online culture” means sitting on media twitter all day<\/p>\n \u2014 Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s also important to note that Charlie Kirk has faced a challenge from his right in recent years from Nick Fuentes and his Groyper movement.<\/a><\/p>\n There Miller: The power of law enforcement under President Trump’s leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power and if you have broken the law, take away your freedom pic.twitter.com\/uafIvtUZk1<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) September 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This demand for COINTELPRO 2.0 sure was quick <\/p>\n (Rufo\u2019s employer, the neocon Manhattan Institute, was founded by former CIA director William Casey) pic.twitter.com\/pDeSLfpr5r<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Got to admire their audaciousness, though.<\/p>\n Billboard and mural of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk appear in Israel.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udfe1 LIVE updates: https:\/\/t.co\/EL9YmKPvH0<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qt9QogJrF9<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Although the effort to blame the killing on the left is slipshod enough to get pushback from centrist Bill Maher, who invited Ben Shapiro on his show to demonstrate centrist-MAGA solidarity:<\/p>\n Shapiro: We know he was of the left.<\/p>\n Maher: We don\u2019t know shit Ben\u2026 I\u2019m hearing he\u2019s in group that think Kirk wasn\u2019t right wing enough\u2014 the groypers. You\u2019re sure he\u2019s not that?<\/p>\n Shapiro: I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s not that. <\/p>\n Maher: A few seconds ago you were. pic.twitter.com\/ba4mzhBbmJ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Maine (@TheMaineWonk) September 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Historian of the American right, Rick Perlstein <\/a> posted on Facebook:<\/p>\n In 2019 Nick Fuentes\u2019 neo-Nazi \u201cGroypers\u201d engaged in a systematic campaign to harass Charlie Kirk at his events for not being racist enough. He responded by becoming more racist. <\/p>\n Some other preliminary thoughts:<\/p>\n Kirk succeeded because he was astonishingly talented. His speech at the 2024 Republican convention was the most effective by far, in my judgement. It articulated with great clarity and passion, and in apolitical terms, the feelings of dispossession and alienation a typical young person can be expected to feel today, and then, with rather astonishing skill, offered fascism as a road to relief. It was spellbinding.<\/p>\n In Naomi Klein\u2019s Doppleganger, the best political book read I\u2019ve in quite some time, she very effectively explains how good Steve Bannon is, as well, at speaking vulnerable people\u2019s feelings of dispossession. The Democrats with the skill at doing this, like Mamdani and AOC, are rendered anathema by the gerontocrats running the party.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll add, finally (for now), that the way he\u2019s being memorialized, as someone who welcomed \u201cdialogue with those of different views and not just people shouting at each other\u201d is also testament to his malign genius.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n For his part, Nick Fuentes claims he is being framed:<\/p>\n My followers and I are currently being framed for the murder of Charlie Kirk by the mainstream media based on literally zero evidence.<\/p>\n After the Left gunned him down, they celebrated and justified it. They said I was next. Now they are blaming me. <\/p>\n These people are pure evil. pic.twitter.com\/WRQdt7G3Dp<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) September 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This stuff is confusing to everyone so it\u2019s no wonder the FBI can barely establish a coherent narrative.<\/p>\n pic.twitter.com\/TEj4L5YU4j<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The cultural moment is far too chaotic and grimly ridiculous to support an overwhelming authoritarian narrative.<\/p>\n I did not believe, but my eyes have been opened. I thought no one could outdo Eldertiktok in the Charlie Kirk clipping cycle but then\u2014here comes a Christian TikToker promising to raise him from the dead like Lazarus:<\/p>\n \u201cIf anyone out there does have connections to the Kirk fam and\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/nz2qIPq96z<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qGCzC1ifsh<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 ParaPower Mapping (@KlonnyPin_Gosch) September 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This video essay on TikTok explains both the Kirk vs Fuentes, Christain nationalist vs groyper split and the memetic communication style of the latter fairly well:<\/p>\n A quick crash course in blackpill accelerationism: the memes are the ideology.<\/p>\n \u266c original sound \u2013 Cy Canterel<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n Partial transcript:<\/p>\n Two families on the right keep getting mashed together in coverage. There\u2019s the main line far right Christian nationalism, and then the groyper scene, especially its black pill accelerationist.<\/p>\n They overlap in rhetoric and enemies, but they don\u2019t want the same future and they don\u2019t use the internet in the same way.<\/p>\n Groypers refers to a youth driven online far right scene that\u2019s associated with the America First brand, which is LED by Nick Fuentes.<\/p>\n Blackpill comes from Incel Forums and signals fatalism, so no improvement in humanity is possible and thereby despair is rational. Acceleration in extremist context means stoking crises to hasten societal collapse.<\/p>\n You can think of this as builders versus burners. The groypers world orbits a completely different sun. It\u2019s youth heavy. It\u2019s a coalition that includes a lot of streamers and online personalities. And it borrows from incel forums, gamer chat, crypto cynicism, edge lord comedy, and a lot of terminally online irony.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the core distinction.<\/p>\n The blackpill wing does not believe in reform, not of institutions, not of culture, and not of people. The blackpill is the conviction that decline is irreversible.If nothing can be redeemed, then the only creative act is negation.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s where accelerationism comes in. It is not policy,it\u2019s physics. <\/p>\n The expectation is collapse followed by nothing. Unlike some white supremacist or apocalyptic Christian variants that at least fantasize about what comes after, mainstream Blackpill content rarely sketches a constructive post collapse order. It\u2019s entropy worship. Speed the unraveling and enjoy the spectacle.<\/p>\n A quick detour so that we don\u2019t mix wires here.<\/p>\n Black pilled accelerationism is not the same thing as tech bro AI accelerationism. The latter is a Futurist, albeit doomy, faith about speeding technological progress even at humanity\u2019s expense. Black pill is a social political fatalism that invites breakdown. Different crowds, different goals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Aidenetcetera on TikTok<\/a> has a similar explanation from the Zoomer-native. perspective.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also very important to note that, despite his fervent genocidal denialism, Kirk had recently veered into heresy about Israel.<\/p>\n Tucker Carlson told Megyn Kelly that Charlie Kirk went to the Oval Office to speak against War with Iran \u2014 and his donors sent him \u201cintense\u201d messages that Tucker claims Charlie showed him pic.twitter.com\/jnPh6vgHTa<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Ironically, this moved him slightly in the direction of Fuentes, who has made opposing Israel a core brand value.<\/p>\n \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 EVERY ISRAELI connection to Charlie Kirk\u2019s ASSASSINATION (so far):<\/p>\n > He was groomed by Israel as teenager \u2014 Jackson Hinkle \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@jacksonhinklle) September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Laura Loomer, a key informal advisor to Trump who has been influential in key national security personnel decisions, has deleted this post deciding in light of Kirk\u2019s murder that it was perhaps inflammatory or a bad look. pic.twitter.com\/2O8b8lzQq2<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n They accused Charlie Kirk of infesting turning point with \u201cantisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n The editor of Fox News complained that if Charlie Kirk remained head of TPUSA it would cause an antisemitism problem.<\/p>\n Charlie was starting to get more hate from zionists. <\/p>\n Then, one month ago, he said he\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/hjscsWMp14<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 ADAM (@AdameMedia) September 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tim Dillon: “Can you remember any time in the history of a political assassination the leader of a foreign government has come out to deny that they were behind it?”<\/p>\n Max Blumenthal: “No. And I’ve never seen anything like what Netanyahu was doing after a tragedy\u2026since 9\/11.” pic.twitter.com\/fgdKyyldIt<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 James Li (@5149jamesli) September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In the meantime while all this was happening:<\/p>\n -The US House of Representatives passed an amendment on September 11, 2025, that bans the Pentagon from awarding contracts to companies engaged in \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d boycotts of Israel;<\/p>\n \u2013 Proposed a bill for Rubio to revoke US\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Priscilla RivasLoria, Ph.D. \u2626\ufe0f \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@PRL1111) September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n BREAKING: The ADL has just issued a report denouncing the “antisemitic conspiracy theories” of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, calling out Jackson Hinckle, Ian Carroll, Syrian Girl & Paul Miller by name. Curiously, they decided to mask out @HarrisonHSmith<\/a>‘s name from his viral\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/uZRY9tVeV4<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Sam Parker \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83e\uddef (@BasedSamParker) September 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n This moral panic is very different than GW Bush\u2019s moral panic. It seems to be outside the control of those trying to capitalize on it.<\/p>\n Although they are pushing as hard as they can:<\/p>\n Charlie Kirk receiving a dignified transfer is exceptionally strange. It is unheard of.<\/p>\n A dignified transfer is reserved for military members who die in service, Presidents, and sometimes Congressmen. <\/p>\n It is unprecedented for a civilian to receive one. <\/p>\n Could it be VP Vance\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/4Wa9gkcoeL<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 CannCon (@CannConActual) September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Yet another Netanyahu tweet memorializing Charlie Kirk<\/p>\n What is he overcompensating for? https:\/\/t.co\/4pTm8FeHwG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The influencer apocalypse may not have ripped open the seventh seal yet, but it\u2019s well on its way.<\/p>\n
UPDATE [9-15-25 10:30PM ET]
Max Blumenthal<\/a>, Candace Owens<\/a>, and Infowars\u2019 Harrison H Smith<\/a> are reporting that Bill Ackman \u201cconvened stormy Israel \u2018intervention\u2019 with Charlie Kirk.\u201d Political blender in action. Ackman\u2019s response<\/a>. It will be key to see how Tucker Carlson handles this. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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And so for Christian nationalism in its hard right form, it\u2019s still builder energy. It insists that the nation is or should be explicitly Christian, prizes hierarchy, order, and a return to rightful social roles. But the strategy is institutional.
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