And here's the thing. I know this is an administration *built* on the non-obvious benefits of making people angry, *designed* around the sort of performative rage in this very tweet. I know it demonstrates how powerful they must be, if they can ignore dissent this widespread.
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Power is what you take, minus what others take back. The idea in democracy is the more you overstep, the greater the alliance forms against you, and so the easier it becomes to restore normal order. In reality, it only takes the solid support or indifference of a few to win.
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There's an awful lot of people who have decided surely somebody else is going to stop Trump from kidnapping children, that they didn't get where they were today by losing everything "for a good cause".
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And hell, if your guiding belief is "Government is evil", "Look how evil we can make Government" does have some sort of logic to it, doesn't it? Then there's that other logic, "We can do whatever we want, we got away with kidnapping children in broad daylight, didn't we?"
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If you can take enough power quickly enough, our system can't take power back fast enough. Mueller is clearly doing solid work, and is slowly picking off bad actors, but it's not that many Congressmen and Senators needed to flip leadership tomorrow, and they won't. Just not done.
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It's not that banning hugging is "worse" than torturing children to death like the Nazi's did. Evil is not so constrained that it can only operate on a single continuum. It's that it's so damn *creative*. You really have to *think* about how to achieve that level of horror.
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To understand the horror of banning children from hugging, you have to really *get into the mind of a child*, be some fucked up alternate universe Fred Rogers. And then know you'll get away with it. Fucking monsters.
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Fred Rogers. Dolores Umbridge. Jesus. This is how minds work, we encapsulate philosophies in characters who may or may not even have existed. At the end of the day *other people* are characters to all of us, and honestly I can model fictional characters better than real ones.
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You're trying to make some point through a remarkably obtuse metaphor.
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I think that somehow via Nazis and JK Rowling you have maneuvered yourself into a rhetorical corner that it would be challenging to tweet one's way free of.
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Lol, even when I say “this isn’t Nazi”, you get all the people with automatic Nazi arguments. And with Harry Potter you get “I read more books than you” stealth bragging. Digging through the reflex reactions is just another part of how Twitter is kinda broken.
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But I DO understand your metaphor now!
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