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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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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
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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Replying to @generativist
> A person who enjoys the loudest bully pulpit in the world and sits at the seat of unimaginable power here I go back to finding you wildly confused. being president is not unimaginable power. I can imagine it and I bet you can too. he is not a god, he is a politician
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Substitute immense for unimaginable then. Our system of government grants him moves that literally no one else may have, in addition to an information environment that demands attention paid. He uses both to ensure he remains the center of attention.
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