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I get so many people asking me "can you BELIEVE what Trump just did?" How this still engage you so much after four years? Are you retarded?

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Lots of Americans are traumatized and pulled by their hooks, I think. Can't see a better explanation for some of these reactions that border on religious hysteria. "We've found a witch, may we burn her?" seems to be the mantra enabling all these spook wars in the media.

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I was having an ordinary convo w a friend who knows I’m a republican, they suddenly asked me if I was voting and for who. When I responded they raged at me about voting for someone who wants to destroy the country, and then badgered me about the post office. It was bizarre.

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Must be strange to live in a country where politics is plural effort to keep you naive and pliable and every group lives in its own pocket universe. I talk to Americans of all cultural and political affiliations and the disagreement on base reality is total. No mediation. None.

10:53 PM · Aug 25, 2020Twitter Web App

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I wouldn't know, I've only ever lived in the US or Canada

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I expect we'll all be the US or Canada, soon enough.

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It’s bizarre. It was not like this prior to Obama/Biden. That was the camel’s nose under the tent.

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For me as a foreigner, it was the Bush years and the War on Terror. That was when the US grand narrative really seemed to crack, on the outside at least. I think internally, you guys have some time lag relative to the rest of the globe.

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