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🚕 And I Ran, I Ran So Far Away... I Couldn't Get Away 🚌

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Music & Mockery:  Iran Made a Dis Track and I Feel Bad for Everyone The visuals are solid. The production is fine. And yet, I am somehow embarrassed on behalf of two countries simultaneously. Iran has been making music videos about Donald Trump . AI-generated, gangster-rap-inflected , Lego -populated music videos with tombstones and dripping blood and the word LOSER in capital letters as if they discovered the caps lock key at the same time they discovered Ableton . And here is my honest reaction: I am embarrassed . Not for Iran. Not exactly for Trump. For the whole situation , the way you're embarrassed when two people you know get into an argument at a wedding and they are both wrong but you can't leave because the car keys are in one of their pockets. The videos showed up in the American press mainly because Iran's embassy shared them on social media. Left to their own momentum, most would have dissolved quietly into the algorithm like a Jell-O salad ...