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Re:Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) by nextworddev on Monday August 18, 2025 @10:00PM (#44947481)
Well who cares about looking like a clown, considering there’s millions of them on LinkedIn and TikTok. Shame is diluted every day and no one cares
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Re:Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) by thr0w on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:11PM (#44947887)
> Well who cares about looking like a clown

A lot of people, almost instinctively, and for good reason.

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Re:Shamelessness as a strategy (2019) by nextworddev on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @11:57PM (#44958511)
Playing devil’s advocate, but “clown” is subjective and relative, which means the most serious people are sometimes clowns unbeknownst to them lol
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