Quick test to determine whether you're tribal: Did you secretly hope that Trump's talks with Kim would go badly wrong and make him look like a twit? If yes, the chances are you're tribal. If no, you might not be. (You probably still are though).
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Bad take. While a lot of people are parroting the trope that liberals want the talks to go badly wrong, there’s no evidence of a single person who thinks that way. Think about what it would mean that the talks “go badly wrong”. We get incinerated.
How does any of that make it a bad take? I'd say it makes it an extremely good take!
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At best, it’s a test with zero power. But also, mentioning it propagates a bullshit meme.
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Well, I've not seen the meme, and anyway don't care it propagates it. And secondly, it's not a test with zero power. It's absolutely explicitly (see the way the second choice is phrased) a test with only very small amount of power. Third, you're taking it way too seriously!
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First, I used the word “meme” in its original (Dawkins) meaning, so “I’ve not seen the meme” doesn’t make sense in response to it. The meme here is the idea that liberals want Trump to fail in everything, including diplomacy and peace talks. 1/
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Well that's not what you said - you referred specifically to the talks (take a look back at your tweets). I'm not a mind reader, Sven!
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Wanting these talks to go badly is an extreme example of the more general situation described in my follow-up, so what I said is completely consistent and follows necessarily.
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Sven, slow down a minute. I thought you were talking abt a specific meme to do with this particular event. That's what I was responding to (because that was the topic). You say, not the specific meme, the general phenomenon - to which I replied, I didn't know you meant generally.
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