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16) Often they'd refuse to say who they were actually planning to vote for. Not that it mattered; by that time there were enough Black Lives Matter or Blue Lives Matter yard signs that you usually already knew.

SBF

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Jan 21, 2021

17) And so began the most unpleasant and spite filled four years of culture I've lived through. A lot has been said about the former president's antics during his term. But of course there's another side to the story.

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Jan 21, 2021

18) I've felt fairly alienated from both parties recently. Democrats said that Trump had no plan for COVID, gave no leadership, was costing American lives, and failing to fight the disease. And they're right.

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Jan 21, 2021

19) Republicans countered that Democrats were dragging out the pain, wrecking havoc on the economy for a year while failing to either squash the virus or live with it. And they're right, too. Neither side really acknowledged the truth: that you had to make a hard choice.

SBF

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Jan 21, 2021

20) And at the climax, Trump himself got COVID. His behavior was bizarre and true to form, taking the opportunity to shill some companies and hold meetings with fake props at a fake desk. And he didn't give the speech I would have, if I were him.

SBF

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Jan 21, 2021

21) Because if you went on CNN, you would see an entire page full of attacks on Trump, for getting COVID, and for not being careful enough. Which, ok, sure, but there's another narrative here, too. Which is that Trump did what leaders do.

SBF

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Jan 21, 2021

22) He got COVID because he prioritized running the government over his personal safety. And then he left the hospital early. Because he was the President of the United States of America, the leader of the free world. The world wasn't got to stop spinning while he was sick.

SBF

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Jan 21, 2021

23) And so he chose to lead, and uphold his duties as president (and, you know, whichever random drug companies he was into that day), even if it meant risk to his own health. I don't know. I'm not Trump's biggest fan, but that was the day I was most proud of him.

SBF

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Jan 21, 2021

24) Anyway, we reap what we sow. And after decades of sowing distrust in each other, we were left with our darkest moment: a part of the country violently storming the capital and invading the senate because they didn't believe the results of the election.

SBF

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Jan 21, 2021

25) And, to top it off, the president (at the time) of the United States of America attempting to overturn an election he lost. There were a ton of things at stake, but I guess at some point many people were single issue voters.

cnbc.com

Mike Pence rejects Trump's call to overturn Biden election

Pence's statement breaking with Trump came before the vice president was due to preside over a joint session of Congress to declare Joe Biden the victor.

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26) And so as we transition to the 46th president, we have to work to heal the divides in our nation. But more importantly, we have to treat each other in good faith, so that we can prevent these divides from forming in the first place. Good luck,

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Do you even live here bro?

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As long as there is a Big Data tech oligopoly running shit in this country, eroding the neuropsychology of humans who become addicted to the dopamine loops of social media, there will be an ever-increasing divide in this country, and a greater clickhole of digital tribalism

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the winner of this election was whoever is bankrolling the Cambridge Analytica analog that has been exacerbating the divide in this country, and inflaming natural distrust and suspicion amongst the people, creating hashtags and facebook meet ups for riots ETC

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Great thread

- interesting that you were involved in grassroot politics, says a lot about your character

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I think a big part of this is more Americans, including in my circle, are switching to conflict theory over mistake theory (slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/con). But if conflict theorists are correct about the nature of the disputes, then taking your opponents in good faith is just losing

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In the end nothing is binary, and how we treat our opponents impacts how they treat us. But also, yeah, there are times when some things are a lost cause.

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This is such crap. Time to heal, time to come together, time for unity, blah, blah. Where was all of this bullshit in the last four years when #resist was in vogue? When Democrats impeached the president twice on phony charges? Now, a coordinated purge against conservatives.

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So can US citizens start using FTX now? 😝

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heh ftx.us

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If they want to heal the divide Democrats should stop treating Trump supporters as terrorists. There are 75 millions of them, and they won’t go away. The ball is now on the left court, but my feeling is that they will drop it hard and country will slide further into chaos.

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