That should exist, but it also changes with the time.

Right.

Like, I don't think now doing the jokes we did is the same thing.

Like, honestly, like, I think what it would be now would be, like, if some 20-year-old,

the equivalent would be like making Charlie Kirk jokes at this point, because that's

what the dominant sort of like culture says you're not

allowed to do.

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