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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @nberlat @Nymphomachy and

      Yeah I think the idea that there's a Civilization-style "player" would could just click some sliders and "allocate things differently" is a massive fallacy A lot of people unconsciously make this assumption and it does not survive even a brief brush with how the government works

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and

      Which is why even when you get a President who explicitly comes in promising to slash and burn all the "waste" to focus on what "really matters" -- and such Presidents are uniformly turds who want to buy more jets and bombs -- they do some damage but they fail at their task

      4 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    3. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and

      This seems more to do with the processes that determine who gets selected President than the power intrinsic to the office

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @Cybren @nberlat and

      Enh, six of one It's all one big system

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

      Trump positioned himself as this Ultimate Outsider, remember, who *could* do whatever the fuck he wanted because he owed nothing to any members of the political Establishment

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and

      Okay but he didn’t actually care that much

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Feb 18
      Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and

      it's sort of circular though because the same things that meant he didn't care were the things that led him to promise to do all this stuff that's not really possible.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat Feb 18
      Replying to @nberlat @Cybren and

      it's not that if someone like trump cared they could change everything; it's that only someone like trump who doesn't care would promise to make these sorts of changes because they don't understand how anything works.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    9. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Feb 18
      Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and

      Someone like trump who had a specific ideological goal rather than being purely motivated by self interest could accomplish more profound and fundamental changes to the country

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Feb 18
      Replying to @Cybren @nberlat and

      I just feel like continuing down this line of argument we’re gonna get into apologia for why Obama couldn’t end the war on terror rather than why he /didn’t want to/

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @Cybren @nberlat and

      Maybe The "soft power" elements of the system keeping someone who is both truly committed to and truly capable of radical change out of the White House are real, major parts of the system though

      10:21 PM - 18 Feb 2021
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

          Like they'll probably be arguing for years about "how exactly did Trump slip through the cracks here" But surely part of it was that he slipped through *because* he was not just reckless and unhinged but also profoundly stupid and ignorant

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

          I don't want to say this in like a conspiratorial Illuminati way, like "Oh they deliberately let him in with the intention of letting him fail to convince the American people to accept change is impossible" I think it's simpler than that

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