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2020-10-07T23:17:44.677Z

Everything is supposedly destined to expose the deep contradictions of the 'establishment'US President Donald Trump upon his arrival at the White House after leaving the hospital on Monday.ERIN SCOTT / Reuters The good thing about irony is that it dissects things, puts itself on top of them so that we can see the faults and hypocrisies and double games (…) Sarcasm, parody, absurdism and irony are great ways to tear the mask off things and to show thus the unpleasant reality they hide.

US President Donald Trump upon his arrival at the White House after leaving the hospital on Monday.ERIN SCOTT / Reuters

The good thing about irony is that it dissects things, puts itself on top of them so that we can see the faults and hypocrisies and double games (…) Sarcasm, parody, absurdism and irony are great ways to tear the mask off things and to show thus the unpleasant reality they hide. "Let's pause the David Foster Wallace quote there. Just a moment: it will continue below ....

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