I just published The Manufacture of Active Impotencehttps://dispatches.artifexdeus.com/the-manufacture-of-active-impotence-a955d379e21d …
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Replying to @generativist
I think this is a good piece but that frankly you're still wildly confused. > Absent Trump, the total level of fuckery would decline. no it wouldn't. Trump is a product, a symptom, at most *a* cause by now means *the* cause internet was internetting long before Trump ascended
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One sentence after, > But the prior level of animosity and antagonism were high enough to make him attractive in the first place. He was and is a lesser cold exploiting a host with an auto-immune disorder and chronic inflammation.
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Replying to @generativist
I'm asserting that even the hedged assertion is wrong — Trump disappearing wouldn't reduce the level of absurdity, period
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Ah. Yea. I disagree with that. A person who enjoys the loudest bully pulpit in the world and sits at the seat of unimaginable power using it all to deliberately and actively compel diversion is not comparable to YouTuber.
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People will continue to be shitty because of said incentive structures, but a huge synchronization primitive gets removed so division is less coherent
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