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Well said. My initial reaction was that the video might be AI generated. But unfortunately it wasn't.

It felt like the staged backstage coverage of a WWE show where two wrestlers (artists?) take another one by surprise.

A clear case of the Limbic System overpowering the Pre-frontal Cortex at a systemic level.

Remember, all this is going to be in the history books. A hundred years later, those people are going to look at this and wonder what was this primitive generation smoking!? Provided the species survives this madness.

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Exactly!!!

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I’ve been thinking of it as Arnab Goswamization of US president

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Uhar republic ka bhai fox news to pehle se hi hai :)

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*Udhar

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"The real horror is an unrecorded life—no proof you mattered, no data of your existence:" loved your engagement with the idea of 'recording life' and giving meaning to one's existence through the 'proof' one leaves. You have left the readers with a lot to think about in terms of the 'traces' one wants to leave behind and the many forms (vile, dangerous, absurd and outright unethical sometimes) that self-making projects can take in this hyper age of performance.

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JD Vance bringing his wisdom to match and vibe with trump while rubio sinks in his chair. Quite unreal but also absurd, unhinged chaos.

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Decency is a fog machine very well said.

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