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So we're using Seinfeld actually as a stealth entry way to what I think is actually a better conversation

about comedy and satire right now.

I think Dion's point is quite good about the,

yeah, maybe Jerry's perspective on like,

hey, we weren't playing characters.

We were, we actually just believe that stuff. Like, maybe that's where his confusion comes from. But what has been swirling for me for like months now is that Amanda and I came across a couple instances of satire directed at the

left, sort of moderate liberals or something like that and it made us think like we should try to analyze this a bit and

It sort of like made us feel uncomfortable, but not just because like, oh no, like we're being made fun of and now I'm sad.

It wasn't that sort of discomfort.

It was, there's something going on here and I don't quite know what it is.

And so there's the Amanda principle, first of all that we talk about pretty regularly.

That's where a piece of art can be simultaneously taken or weaponized by either the left or the right saying

this piece of art agrees with me when of course only one of those can be correct and then I went looking I was like does

this already exist is there something similar that helps explain comedy and

politics and the relationship a little bit better and again it's not perfect

it's not exact but pose law this is just one of those internet laws that that got coined

comes close again. So Po's law was coined when

debating on like a religious forum about or with creationists and so Po Poz Law is, without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor,

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