A guy riffs on his ridiculous anti-government phase, when he thought swapping butter for margarine and wearing toe-shoes was political rebellion. He mocks the self-appointed experts selling online courses, and how performative purity became its own kind of absurd theater.
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That phase in which just because you use butter instead of margarine to cook your food, you feel like you're an enemy of the government. That was me. If something has soy, I'm just immediately allergic. That era. I feel like everyone goes through that phase. Yeah, man. It starts with margarine and it ends with right-wing extremism. I even bought the barefoot shoes, but not the normal ones. I bought the ones that pretty much guarantee you never get laid. It's the ones that have the little toes. They were uncomfortable as fuck, weird, but at least I was an enemy of the government, right? I was standing and returning to tradition. It was fucking stupid. I'll tell you that much. Like, if you You can pick up girls on those, you got a special talent. That's the kind of person that's qualified to sell a course. Like, yeah, courses are scammy. Well, if you can do that, like, you're that good. You're that guy.