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sed right now. Would you agree? How many of you would say yeah you're definitely being suppressed. There's no question about it. Yeah your geniuses. Every one of you are geniuses. That's true. All right so here's what Justine continues to say. She said so let me get this straight we are now supposed to step into the quote marketplace of ideas to debate plus discuss if Hitler behaved poorly or if…

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oji would have decreased the impact or the perfection of it. It was just perfect. Yeah I think it was smirking face. It's just like well what do you say to that? There's literally no comment about it that could have helped. It was just it just has to sit there on its own. Just it is what it is. But with one emoji Elon Musk described his entire marriage experience in ways which every man completely understood. Message received. Got it.

Expanding now in my mind from one emoji to whoa whoa. This is a good story. Wow. Now continue to expand to explain the entire marital dynamic ending in divorce. Got it. Got it. So that's nobody's ever said more with one emoji. You could piece together their entire history and can you imagine their arguments in person? Come on just hold it in your head. Just imagine that he had to hear that every day. How many days in a row do you have to listen to that before you say I think marriage isn't for me. I'm just going to knock up a bunch of women and have kids. I don't think this marriage thing you know by design I don't think it's a good system. It's not well engineered.

Imagine being the most storied engineer in American history although he's technically even not an engineer he just happens to be the best one. That would be the storied engineer and that's the system that you have to put yourself into. Do you think Elon Musk looks at the institution and system of marriage and says to himself now that's a good system. If I were going to engineer a system for society it would look just like that? No I don't think so.

It's just... is your mind blown away by the fact that the New York Times didn't cover the Twitter expose? Like what does that do to your head? I mean it does tell you everything you suspected was true not just about this right. I mean such a strong signal that liter

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ally everything you suspected was true about everything. Just about everything. It was all true in some form. So every time the conservatives have this I got you this time feeling what always happens? We've been through this before right? Ah we got you this time. Now that the truth has come out watch what happens when the people on the left learn the truth. It never happens does it? There's just…

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