we might know more about each other now than we did in 1999, but one rule remains the same: everyone online is lying to you. there is now a second rule: nearly everyone online is trying to sell you something, even if it's just their brand.
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in terms of political talk, which is ubiquitous on here, i see plenty of "positions" that are crudely focus-grouped per one's in-group the way advertising language for toothpaste or flushable wipes (which are "flushable" only in the sense that you can flush them) is
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what i'm selling you is a product that almost sells itself: a pledge to never sell you anything and to always be forthcoming about the context in which my remarks are made. ever since i left academia, i've been determined to "live in truth," to use a nonsense kundera phrase
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