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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      1. The "nothing matters" response to scandals is particularly shortsighted because politics is a war of attrition carried on multiple fronts. The tax thing alone is not enough to sink Trump but -- if used used right -- is part of a larger effort to defeat him & his politics.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1310579201527951360 …

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      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      I don’t understand the “this will not matter” talk among the chattering classes. Nobody has a crystal ball. Who knows? But one way of ensuring nothing matters is giving up having values to defend. Cynicism isn’t a sign of depth or savvy, it’s resignation masquerading as politics.
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2020

      2. The striking thing about the polls is how consistent they've been, impervious to almost all outside events (the one recent exception is BLM protests, which nudged Biden up 2 points). But does that mean nothing matters or that all scandals have created low ceiling for Trump?

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2020

      3. So: scandals create a ceiling for Trump. He's lagged Biden all through election & needs to narrow difference in order to win (has a decent shot if he's 3-4% less than Biden). Scandals help keep that ceiling hard.pic.twitter.com/F0RsjiXeGl

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 28 Sep 2020

      4. Beyond the election, there are broader political battles: Trump's crookedness with taxes are a great opportunity to push for wealth tax. "Nothing matter" makes everything about November when politics is broader. More thoughts here.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-tax-evasion-election/ …

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        1. ProfOfIndefiniteArticles‏ @ProfThibodeau 28 Sep 2020
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          "Nothing matters" is an empiricial, not a deontological claim.

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        1. 4tian‏ @4tian 28 Sep 2020
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          All of this makes sense and is reasonable yet everything that’s happened in the last 5-6 years continues to reject it

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        1. Xena Warrior Queen "Je ne regrette rien!"‏ @XnaWarriorQueen 28 Sep 2020
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          They played the electoral college game last time and this time. His extensive list of black folks and dems will be used to throw folks off the rolls, russian hacking to switch a few thousand votes here and there and he'll get to the required EC votes, just like last time.

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        1. Urbain Grandier‏ @normcorelore 28 Sep 2020
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          As my evidence professor always said, there never is a “smoking gun”, it’s more like a wall and each piece of evidence is another brick, or in Trump’s case it’s cans of food for my family

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        1. #Earthist‏ @TheRealWebstir 28 Sep 2020
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          #Earthist Retweeted #Earthist

          See here:https://twitter.com/TheRealWebstir/status/1310625372468211713?s=20 …

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          You may be mistaking ‘cynicism’ for learned helplessness. Does the dog have any control over it’s avoidance behavior once it’s been shocked enough? It’s an important consideration.
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        1. #Earthist‏ @TheRealWebstir 28 Sep 2020
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          We are witnessing the political equivalent of the polity sustaining repeated psychosocial beatings, while those the polity long relied on to champion them in halls of congress stand by and do nothing because they are complicit. Learned helplessness.

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