also, there are multiple kinds of wealth and power, and this ties into a complaint I have had since Cory Doctorow published "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" a million years ago, with his concept of "wuffie", which is a kind of currency that flows from adoration & attention >>
"I think that it's not that the north pole of the compass points to the north pole of the planet, but that the south pole of the compass points to the south pole of the earth earth" is ... just isomorphic to something we already agree on
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it's like "pilot wave" theory, at least as it's been explained to me: "it's not that X happens, it's that a non existent untestable Y happens, and then erases itself, and then something exactly identical to X happens" "ok" (said with complete contempt)
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But they're not equivalent, because they do not afford equivalent responses You said "he can start or end a populistic jihad with a dozen tweets" and I'm saying that to a large extent this isn't true
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