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our culture has produced absolutely nothing funny this year.

Look back at the year of 2024,

we're two-thirds of the way done, we have fall,

and then we're on to 2025,

and what has our culture produce what has the internet

Tic-talk Twitter produced for us we have the Hach-to-a-a-mua meme and we have Kamala Harris saying that she's brat as a politician.

That's what we have.

And I'm going to sound very pessimistic when I talk about this today, but I think

it's important to look back at what we once had, the society that we once had, the

means that we once had, and look at what we have now,

and hopefully that will explain why, at least to me, it feels so bleak and depressing.

And here's kind of my thoughts on the matter.

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