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Is That the Most Attractive Thing About the AMC Game Stop?

I think it's precisely there too, that the enjoyment is in this failed effort to, to do something, right? Like they didn't think they were really going to run. Do they have a plan for running the country? No, no, no, like they were staging a failed coup. That's what they were doing. And I think my only check on that, and I'm not accusing you of this, but I think there's a comfort in referring to it as a, as a failed coup attempt when it could really could not have gone better. Now, whether that constitutes a radical transgression, I think that's a separate question, but right?"

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