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on both during slavery and after. And it would be better to have a skill than not to have a skill. They both say that. Not only is the entire debate about something that nobody said, nobody said the part that the slaves had a good deal. Everybody said the part that they learn skills and everybody agrees that learning skills is better than not learning skills. So this is like a double triple absurd…

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uded. So they're trying to figure out how to do it. What's the process? How do I get to be more extreme? And of course the point of it is it's a ridiculous concept. There's no such thing as an extreme MAGA. It's all made up. So you want to embrace it so that you can mock it. That's different than embrace and amplify because when you embrace and amplify the mocking is sort of embedded in your actions but you're not actively mocking it. You're pretending like you're just playing it straight. In this case you would be actively mocking it but you're embracing it before you actively mock it. So close cousin of embrace and amplify.

Now in my opinion the silliness of extreme MAGA, you could immediately take it from extreme MAGA is like racist, right? Yeah, crazy racist. But you can make extreme MAGA just seem silly and cute and ridiculous just by having more attention to the counterpoint. What do you think? Would it work? Lots of videos of the extreme MAGA and then you also get, you'd also want your Republicans to make fun of it. You know, can you imagine Vivek or somebody who's got a personality saying, you know are you extreme MAGA? Do you agree with this? Because we MAGA. There's an extreme MAGA. Wow, is there any kind of a sign up for that or is it more of a self-identification? How do I become more extreme MAGA? You know just mock the thing by smiling and laughing at it. You know I don't think I'm extreme MAGA enough. I'm gonna, or how about this. All right, here's another idea. You show somebody with a Make America Great Again hat on, you know the red hat, and then they're trying to figure out how to become extreme and then one of them has an idea and they turn the hat around backwards and everybody's like I think you did it. That's like crazy. Oh my God, could we do that too? How did you do that? And then they're all like huh and they turned their hats around. They're like and suddenly they're all excited. We've done it. We've done it. And they go to have a drink but it's only Bud Light. They're like ah. It'd be hilarious. You should make 50 of these. We should use that AI. That's what you do.

So since now we've been told and I'm sure it's true because people said so that you can just write text to create a whole movie so you can just write some text to create this little play of the MAGA people trying to be extreme MAGA and it'll be totally watchable because AI made it, right? No it won't. If you want to show yourself that hey I can't make a movie no matter how many posts you see about it, at least now it can't make a movie. Try to do that. Try to do just that little short film, a two-minute clip with a very clear message, and see, tell your AI to make that and watch how much you don't want to watch it when it's done. By humans could make the hell out of that and AI can't do that. Yeah, you need a human's animating period because the machine can't tell what's working and what isn't. That's a human job.

Make your bed will always be the funniest thing a MAGA person could do. That in the humorous world would look extreme but would be silly. Now I was also imagining what would be extreme MAGA sporting events. You know if you had like because extreme MAGA sounds like extreme sports. So I was imagining suppose all the extreme MAGAs had some kind of Olympics just for extreme MAGAs. What events would be there? And I thought you know the real Olympics already has the skiing and shooting. I have this feeling that a Republican extreme MAGA events would just be regular sports but also shooting. So it'd be like tennis but you could shoot. You know you can hit the ball or you can shoot it in the air. It'd be like basketball but instead of pla

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ying defense you could just shoot the ball when it's in the air. So I think you just take regular sports and you add shooting. You got your extreme MAGA games. Extreme MAGA we've got basketball with shooting. We've got soccer with shooting. We've got curling with shooting. That's it. All right, we've got racing with shooting. We've got lawn darts. Well the lawn darts standalone. That's the only on…

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