Just normal times.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1336777705463959554 …
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The part that's dangerous here is that the fuss is part of a feedback loop happening. The fuss is created to placate the specific audience. But the fuss *further upsets* that audience, creating larger demands.
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To placate that audience, they must take ever more drastic actions. Each action *only further increases the appetite and size of the audience*. Requiring more words, and more actions.
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It's only theater to some people. That's part of the problem. We are home to a lot of brainwashed people with arms and a predilection for violence.
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Who do you believe the audience to be? And what do you think these actions will do to that audience’s appetites and expectations moving forward?
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I expect these actions to lead to a comfortable Republican majority in the next election.
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You’re right that that’s the most likely scenario. But what do you suppose the near- and long-term effects are to the silent acquiescence of these efforts and this language? You are unconcerned? Seems a pathway laid down for a more competent fascist later
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I am concerned about losing elections outright, not about having them stolen. Zeynep's argument about a more competent authoritarian doing this right in the future presupposes that they won't just win all the power they want at the ballot box, which I believe more likely.
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Exactly. And you think the action is "on stage" because you're just watching the stage. Turn away from Trump and his elected sycophants. Look at the people giving him money. They don't believe in democracy and never have.
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What if it’s shitty participatory theatre?https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1337443032636010508?s=21 …
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It's not "political theater" to convince 70+ million people that their electoral victory was stolen, their votes nullified, through outright fraud, led by the guy about to be sworn in with the cooperation even of some Republicans.
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Or you have a very strange definition of "political theater."
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