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God, Chelsea Clinton. Will you look at this? No freedom, no privacy, constant surveillance, Secret Service men... That's what we need.
— My So-Called Life • 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A list of lost freedoms builds toward an unexpected conclusion: that is exactly what the speaker wants. Privacy and independence are recast as things to give up for constant supervision. The reversal supplies the joke, making an apparently restrictive arrangement sound like a welcome solution.
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