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the luxury of never being the punchline (opens the original)
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why does someone else’s pain become entertainment?there’s a certain kind of comedian whose entire personality is built on one promise: i’m going to say the thing i’m not supposed to say. they call it being edgy. they call it pushing boundaries. they call it free speech.i call it lazy.because if your biggest talent is making rape jokes, genocide jokes, racist jokes, or turning women into punchlines, you’re not challenging comedy. you’re challenging the audience to mistake cruelty for courage. the
the second loss (opens the original)
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the second loss.the first loss is when somebody dies.the second is when the world quietly begins expecting you to stop talking about them.it doesn’t happen immediately. at first, people tell you to cry, to scream, to take all the time you need. they bring food, they check in, they tell you they’re here if you need anything. grief is visible then. acceptable. expected.but eventually, the questions change.“are you doing better?”“have you moved on?”“what stage of grief are you in?”i’ve never unders
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