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+1 ysure... it's a matter of whats the risk and tradeoffs? That be a very hard trek with several kids including babies. I just heard they found 9/6/1yr old stuck at the Rio, alone. This is really unreal.
Have to feel for the people south of USA... they live in terrible countries that are apparently... corrupt. I'd love to understand why south america has such big problems people have to take those risks. Why is Mexico "so bad".. e.. g. they don't stay there. We've done business with Mexico for long time...
If Kamala hasn't come up with a plan soon and some results, then replace her.
This is not all the fault of Biden, it's been going on for decades, maybe it's worse now. Stopping people from coming doesn't solve the problem, it pushes the problems somewhere else. People suffer or worse, get converted into the criminal thugs and then we have bigger issues.
Question is are you ready to deply USA military to secure these places? Are you willing to merge south america into USA as additional states?
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It is not the responsibility of the US to solve everybody's problems. Trump has the best solution. Wait in Mexico, build the wall, end catch and release.
He wanted to fix the immigration process. Make it easier for people to immigrate. Democrats would not even look at it because it made too much sense and did not want him to have a win. - +1 y
@exitseven Agree on fixing immigration but seems there isn't much agreement on that. Thus the defacto "just walk through" immigration systemto grow the economy and justify printing money. Agree to a point. The problems turn into bigger problems if countries deteriorate.
They are talking about fixing immigration... but they said that for decades. I don't see this bunch doing anything. - +1 y
We should have a policy that is based on merit. We want engineers and doctors and other educated people that will come here, take the jobs we are currently sending to China, pay taxes and contribute to the country. Instead we get the uneducated and impoverished, people with no akills Mant have chronic health problems or are criminals just released from prison and sent to th US. This is Bidens vision for America. A huge welfare class that will vote Democrat
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@exitseven how would you know someone’s merit without them blossoming in the community? How old were you when you started to be productive?
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In your view, do south americans value education or just labor work? Most of the immigraiton I've seen is college educated, computers and such. Where there is a void... engineering. That doesn't seem to align with south america. They'd only get in for temporary labor work. Thus people learn to game the system, if it isn't strict, they take advantage of to live better life.
Possible... Trump should have bought south america...
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+1 yHow exactly do you save them? You go into another country, you can't legally work, you have no where to live? Aren't you just going to die of starvation or exposure anyways?
After all in the US liberals say illegals get no free handouts from the government, thus they aren't getting anywhere to live, they aren't getting food, water, clothing, medical care.
They can't work legally without stealing someone's identity and fucking an innocent persons life over forever. No one ever recovers from identity theft like that.
Or they get used as slave labor working under the table, treated as such... driving down wages and stealing jobs.
Seems like going into another country would be just as deadly as staying.
Thus I would stay where I know the dangers rather than risk a new unknown.
Now here is the but... but if I know someone who will take care of me, or I know the government will give me free handouts, then yeah... I'm all about to go there and cross illegally.
That is, if they haven't mined the border with land minds, motion activated turrets and built a wall like the great wall of china, in that case. I'd be killed trying to cross so, nope... I'd stay.
Especially if they have a bunch of terminator robots as border patrol agents too.
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@aerissa_jade. The little town next to mine has 150 illegal aliens dumped on them in the middle of the night. The town had to put them all up in a hotel, provide free food and clothing. They got free cell phones too. I wouldn't want to go anywhere near the local emergency room either. The state I live in just voted to give illegal aliens free drivers licenses. I have to pay 50 bucks for mine. They are coming here for a handout. Soon they will outnumber the citizens and we will be working just to support them so they can keep voting for democrats
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@exitseven See the thing is "The town had to put them all up in a hotel." is BS, the town didn't have to do squat for them.
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I really do not know what the laws were but the fact is that the taxpayers will end up paying all their bills. I suppose it is likely that the local democrat politicians had this all set up but whether or there is a legal requirement, the taxpayers end up holding the bag for something that never should have happened.
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It is BS for them to come here illegal and have tax payers take care of them. I have no issues if people like you want to do it out of the kindness of your heart, just not at tax payer expense.
If people don't want to help them, I'm fine with them dying. - +1 y
@exitseven Yeah, makes you think that town had a surplus of money, which means they should cut taxes instead.
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@aerissa_jade I am not sure what the arrangement was. I live in a real liberal state and most of the poi;iticians are democrats. The state is a real mess and people are leaving in droves. This is a good chance for democrats to get more voters by having thousands of illegals come to live here and have the taxpayers pick up the tab.
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@OddBeMe Can I chime in? I think helping people with the basics is GREAT... if only temporarily, not forever. Because I think only permanently disabled people should be helped in that way. Also I mean, if everyone got free housing and food, then what about those who actually WORK for those things? How fair is that to them? ? !
+1 yFood should be a basic thing just like shelter but sadly it's not.
Just like health care, some people have better ones than others.
And I would think that yes, I would TRY to but then, I'd feel bad for breaking the law. Even though I said yes and voted A, I'd still feel like a bad criminal! My father and mother worked HARD to stay legal when we came here to the States in 1991 from the Philippines.
I'd feel like I was cheating my father (not to mention the government) if I just broke the law willy nilly like that! It wouldn't be fair nor would it be right but when it comes to survival as per the choices you've given here, sometimes, you gotta take the risk? ! However, it depends on the type of risk. If it's going to lead to us being shot DEAD from doing that, then nope! There's easy ways to get food and other basic needs. It doesn't have to result in breaking the law! At least not always! Only STUPID people do that! Stupid and irreponsible people. And sadly there's a lot of them!
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532 opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. If I absolutely had to, then yes, I would... but honestly, I do not think that is the literal situation for most of these people today trying to cross the border today.
I am not saying they do not have a good reason or intention, but they are not literally starving or having a cartel member putting guns to their head.01 Reply
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+1 yI hate the way this question is posed lol
Would I move elsewhere if staying meant risking my life? Potentially, sure.
But when you use that argument to justify illegal immigration to countries like the UK, Ireland, France, etc. it just falls flat on its face. A Syrian refugee has to go through Turkey, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Italy or Germany just to get to France. For them to then continue onwards illegally across the channel? How can you justify that?
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1 - That only concerns legal asylum seekers, not the rest who come along with those legal applicants.
2 - The EU or even local country governments aren't setting up makeshift inflatable rafts to try and brave the channel or the Mediterranean, or strapping people to the underside of trucks. These people who don't go through the proper channels and who bypass perfectly safe, stable and prosperous countries just to get somewhere further away because it has a wider social safety net. - +1 y
And I do understand that, which is why I made the point of just how many countries and how many miles they are unnecessarily adding to their 'journey'. If your goal truly is to just get out of the warzone, you succeeded in that mission 1000 miles before reaching the shores of England or Ireland.
And as for your second point, as harsh as it may be to say, no one is entitled to the help being offered by the EU. The level of legal immigration from these countries already blows anything historically similar out of the water, and the illegal population that come along with that magnify that. These people aren't emigrating due to work or an affinity for the country or culture, and the majority have no desire to assimilate which is the bare bones requirement for immigration. These are valid concerns and have provably had negative effects in a whole slew of countries.
A far better alternative if our nations really want to do something about this, is to take all the money they are pumping into dealing with these new people in their borders and instead send it to the actual countries they originate from. Put effort into making those regions stable, so that not only do they not have to leave their home they can also live good lives there. It boggles the mind how this is seen as unrealistic, but that somehow allowing millions of a completely foreign foreign culture, religion, history, pretty much everything we value is different and somehow expect it to just work out fine. - +1 y
Ok…I get your point. But this like the recent docu series “the US and the Holocaust”. We literally had this argument back in the 30s when the Jews were being rounded up and we wouldn’t take them in. A boat docked in NY harbor full of Jewish families and we made them go back to the gas chambers.
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So wing around to today. Syrian refugees, or Mexican/South American refugees, are running with their families for their lives. The EU wants to help and thus divvies the refugees amongst the countries. None of them are licking or forcing Germany or the UK to take them. Their politicians (and most of their constituents) wanted to help.
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Comparing this situation to the holocaust is completely inappropriate, so I'll just leave that there.
We are in agreement as to the foundations of the whole thing. It was based in altruism, something hard to come by in global politics - but there were clear lines in the sand drawn that have since been ran over, and now certain people are trying to backtrack and justify why that was always okay - it wasn't to begin with, hence why we set the rules as they are. - +1 y
In Africa especially the borders leave a LOT to be desired, but in the middle east I really think it's overblown as an argument. Aside from the Kurds, which are the least radical and most want to be left to themselves out of all the competing groups, the rest of arabia is largely that - arab ethnically, and Arabic speaking.
Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia's borders formed naturally, the gulf states are a product of Britain but (paradoxically to your argument) are the most successful of the bunch, Iraq-Syria-Lebanon were actually based off of the Ottoman provinces of the region, not some bored Europeans with a ruler and a map, and Jordan is somewhere in the middle of all of those examples. The only valid argument to be made for the West making the middle east more unstable is Britain championing the creation of Israel after WW1, but that is largely the same argument as we are making here. Jews couldn't comfortably live in Europe, so they left. The area where they ended up has been a hotspot for wars and political contention since. This is, in my mind, no different from what is happening in reverse today.
Tensions in the middle east aren't due to the same reasons as they are elsewhere, especially Europe or the Americas. It's not based on race, or even really based on ideology - its almost entirely religious in nature. And its not even like its different religions; its different denominations of the same religion. It has been 400 years since the last religious war in the west (30 years war), yet it still thrives in the middle east. This is not due to western meddling, it is a fact of the region, and it is not our burden to bear. - +1 y
And before you mention Ireland as I'm irish myself, religion was a minor factor in our war for independence contrary to what some believe
Let's see. Would I respect a completely arbitrary and artificial line on a map that means absolutely nothing, or would I save the people most important to me by crossing that invisible line? Yeah, this is a no-brainer really.
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I find it suspicious that when Trump was president and made it clear that illegal would have to wait in Mexico and would not get any free handouts they all stayed home. Biden rang the dinner bell for them promising nobody would be deported and they would get free everything they came by the thousands from 130 different countries.
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@exitseven Is that actually true, or is this just how it was reported by some of the mainstream media channels. How many people who discuss "the border" have even been there once in their lives? The vast majority just parrot whatever their media heroes have said about it, without actually doing any investigating of their own.
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@exitseven Biden is senile. Do you think he even knows what he's saying?
12.2K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. Yeah well, it's how modern America was born.
You think any of those European settlers and their Black slaves, showed a Native Indian their passport before coming on shore?
11 Reply27.2K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. Lets face it. 99% of the illegals aliens that are streaming into the US since Biden became president are here for the handouts. Free everything if you can get one foot into the country. Once they go through catch and release they are free to go anywhere they want and get an EBT card to boot.
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@exitseven@ You are describing Cuba not the United States.
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150 of them were bussed into the little town next to mine. They arrived in the middle of the night. The town had to put them in a hotel (taxpayers dime) provided with free meals nd clothing and cell phones. 50 of them were kids and had to be enrolled in the local school dept. Ant this is only a tiny fraction of the damage.
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@Guffrus Illegal aliens get free housing, food and clothing and Healthcare. They will be getting free drivers licenses too. They will be voting after that. If one of them crashes into you while driving drunk with no insurance the judge will let them go and you get stuck with all the bills. This happens every day.
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@Guffrus The system is set up so they qualify for benefits the rest of us cannot get. If a disabled veteran went to the town hall because he was having trouble paying property taxes he would be met with a blank stare and a bunch of excuses. An illegal alien gets to live in a hotel and gets free meals and healthcate.
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Weird, this tells a very different story.
www.alllaw.com/.../hold-process-jail.html
You see this says that someone who is identified as an illegal alien gets deported. - +1 y
@Guffrus Biden is on tape telling everyone that if they come here they will not be sent back. This video had been shown many times and that has been the policy with Bidens administration Biden either will not or is too incompetent to enforce the laws we currently have and send them back.
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But you can't provide a link or won't provide a link because it will presumably not support your argument.
The fact of the matter is that the system does not in fact work as you describe.
I have provided you with evidence which demonstrates that you are wrong.
Most likely what is happening here is that you and others are incorrectly describing refugees as illegal aliens. - +1 y
@Guffrus all sources are out there. As well…get out a little more often then you’ll see what’s going on by talking to them.
Out tax money is housing these people. They lineup daily to collect free food, iPads, clothes, they are receiving health care, kids are send to schools.
We can help many…but we are suffering. The US have been neglecting their own people for whatever reason.
I have some ideas but I am not that smart to draw a conclusion with these political actions.
I generally don’t like to talk politics, but we can’t be too ignorant to ignore what’s going on to America. - +1 y
@midnightmoon05 I do not live in the United States and it is not up to me to find the evidence to support somebody else's argument.
Yes, your tax money may well be being used to help some people who are not from America, but crucially, this is infact just one of the responsibilities of a civilised nation if they are REFUGEES.
This is why it is important to understand what their status is.
You are both telling me that whoever these people are are recieving 'free stuff' like ipads etc but you provide no evidence and cannot tell me by what mechanism this happening.
I on the other hand HAVE provided you with evidence which says that that is bullshit and infact NOT happening.
Yes, the US does neglect its own people, for example you are the only first world nation on Earth which does not have healthcare, its astonishing to everyone globally how fucked up your country is but that is what you vote for even, its not even like you are being oppressed, its what you want.
You act like you are a victim here, but it is total fucking bullshit.
Illegal Mexican labour is part of popular culture, you see in film and TV ALL the time. Do not fucking tell me that you don't want them in your country because that's a fucking lie. You want to be able to exploit these people. So do not fucking cry me a fucking river that you are paying for someone else. Even if that were true I would have no fucking sympathy for you what so ever.
And yes you are fucking ignorant. - +1 y
@Guffrus ahhhhh, you are not an American and not living in America. We can't have a decent discussion about the fact how the news are false and the reality is in front of us.
Don't always believe what you read online/the news and where you get your sources from.
On that note. Have a nice day. - +1 y
@Guffrus You don;t even live here and yet you can make all kinds of assumptions. In the US we have the best healthcare in the world. All the oil sheiks come her if they get sick. 18 months ago I was able to get a total hip replacement in less than 6 weeks. Try to do that in Canada or England or any other country.
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@midnightmoon05 I do not consume the main stream media.
I am asking you to provide evidence to support your claim, because that is how this works.
I am not going to take your word for anything nor am I going to ask you to do the same.
The reason we are having a problem here is because you are fucking retarded and do not have first fucking idea how any of this shit works, neither with regard to the subject nor how to talk about a subject. - +1 y
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I am not assuming anything.
You are the one who is making baseless claims and accusations.
I have demonstrated to you that you are wrong.
You need to be careful when using the word best, because you have to define what it means, best at what?
Because it sure as shit isn't 'best' at making sure that everyone has access to healthcare.
So you paided for private healthcare and you had to wait? 6 weeks.. wow, that is 50% LONGER THAN IN THE UK.
www.spirehealthcare.com/.../
So in what sense is the US healthcare system the best?
It isn't faster privately and you do not have free at the point of delivery healthcare either.
Sounds to me like the worst of all worlds. - +1 y
@exitseven What part of 'everthing that the United States has is also available in Europe' don't you get?
We have national services which are free at the point of delivery and paid for by the tax payer.
We have jobs which have private health coverage perks.
We have private health insurance coverage.
or you could can just pay for it. - +1 y
@exitseven The cost of a replacement hip in the US is not infact $100k it is however about $30,000 which is considerably more, nearly double the £14,500 it costs in the UK.
So we pay half as much for the same thing that you have or we can wait and it won't cost anything, unless we happen to have a job like your with private coverage included in which case we would still not pay anything but we wouldn't have to wait as long.
In what sense is the US 'the best system in the world'?
Because I dont think that being unavailable to a significant portion of your population, slower and more expensive sounds like it is better by ANY metric of significance.
What exactly is it 'better' at? - +1 y
Perhaps it is your mothers and children you are taking care of?
Let's take a look at the data..
www.cia.gov/.../country-comparison
Huh, that's weird, it seem that the US is in fact worse that every European country in regard to child mortality.
It's certainly worse than Canidan and Cuba..
You are doing better than the Mexicans but this data is most certainly not helping your argument.
Maybe those people trying to cross your southern border are actually trying to get to Canada? - +1 y
@Guffrus I love how you’re providing the links to back up your claims but @exitseven keeps bloviating without any.
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So no evidence for your original bullshit claim @exitseven?
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You can come to my house and I can take you to the hotel in the next town where 150 illegal aliens are living on the taxpayers dime. And didn't you see the mayor of NYC crying to the feds that New York cannot afford to house and feed all these illegal aliens that are being bussed up from the southern border that Biden had opened up. tHat is proof enough for me.
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@exitseven Why is that everytime we ask for evidence you guys just come back with “I’ve seen”, “I’ve heard,” “my grandma says…”
That’s an actual logical fallacy bud. - +1 y
@exitseven The problem is that while that might be a 'proof' for you, you cannot expect it to be a proof for anyone else.
But its not just that, that is only the problem with anecdotal evidence.
The real problem is in your own standards for evidence. As I have asked you already, how can you possibly know what their status is?
How do you know they are illegals and not for example, refugees or people who are being detained while they are investigated and therefore not infact illegal aliens at this time etc.
I do not see how you can possible know what their status is because that is presumably personal and private information to which you do not have legal access. - +1 y
So that’s actually fallacious thinking. Believing your “eyes and ears” before statistics and empirical evidence.
lucidphilosophy.com/15-hasty-generalization/ - +1 y
@exitseven So again, Exit…would you cross a border illegally to get your children a better life?
+1 yThe people who voted no would happily watch their partners and children get brutally murdered or starve to death because of some invisible made-up line in the ground, lol
20 Reply1.2K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. Most immigrants probably wouldn't starve without getting to the US, there is no famine in Latin America. Sometimes yes the cartels are after them, but the cartels can't possibly be after a large percentage of the millions of immigrants in the US.
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Well, Americans probably would have a better life in Norway, are they crossing the Atlantic illegally? As for why it is a false dicotomy enlighten me with your pearls of wisdom Sir. The fact of the matter is, pretty much everyone today has a better life than the Europeans in the past who they condemn.
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+1 yThe only time I will illegally trespass someone sovereign country is under extreme danger or under refugee crisis of an invading army, otherwise no.
And if I'm caught then I must be deported back to my country of origin.
It's not the responsibility of another country to deal with foreigners and their problems.
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Anonymous(45 Plus)+1 yIt's not illegal to cross a border like this, you just have to turn yourself in to the authorities.
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Opinion Owner+1 yYou apply for asylum.
You cannot be returned back to a country where you face persecution, this is a violation of international human rights laws (Geneva convention).
Im not sure that a cartel applies though and feeding them certainly doesn't, asylum is about being persecuted by the government of your home country, or fleeing war so for example ethnic genocide, executing homosexuals, having the shit freed out of your house by American bombers, this sort of thing.
Even if your application for asylum is not accepted crossing the border seeking and applying for asylum is perfectly legal.
What is not legal is crossing a border and then remaining inside the territory without permission covertly.
3.3K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. Of course! Whenever there is all of the free stuff and perks waiting on the other side. Like the Biden policies will give you. Why would you not? But some countries would be greeting you with hard labor or a piece of lead when you would cross their boarders.
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+1 yI've thought of this situation and honestly I would. If we're caught, we're dead anyways.
10 Reply If absolutely necessary. Yes but things won't change if the only solution is to leave your home country.
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+1 yMost humans would do anything to save their family.
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+1 yIf I had to illegally cross a border to save my family because they weren’t in the US then yeah
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Anonymous(25-29)+1 yI would blow up the white house if that’s what it took to save my family.
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Killing innocent people to save your own family?
10.6K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. I will do whatever it takes to save my family
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+1 yDo you really have a choice if one of the options is bad all around?
00 Reply 8.2K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. What situation would lead me to want to illegally cross a border between countries?
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+1 yI would take that risk and if we are going to get arrested, we're all dead anyways
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Anonymous(30-35)+1 ySure, but you do realize that's not the issue, right?
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+1 yIrrelevant question. You libbies just don’t get it, do you?
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+1 yYes I would. No hesitations.
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+1 yLooks like Ill be on my own then 😅
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+1 yNo. Don't have to :)
00 Reply11.6K opinions shared on Society & Politics topic. I would do it.
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+1 yYes I would
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+1 yYeep I would.
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