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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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @generativist
it strikes me as roughly equivalent to asserting that PewDiePie disappearing would change youtube as a platform. no it wouldn't, not in the ways that matter
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @generativist
That comparison makes no sense to me.
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Replying to @NelsonMRosario @generativist
sonya! supposedly? Retweeted sonya! supposedly?
what I was shooting forhttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1223405750183055360 …
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @generativist
The thing is one is an entertainer almost wholly dependent on one platform, and the other is an individual occupying an office that has tremendous legal, cultural, and historical power. So....pic.twitter.com/1ZnVSH5PvJ
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Replying to @NelsonMRosario @generativist
> almost wholly dependent on one platform > occupying an office that has tremendous legal, cultural, and historical power this is exactly the comparison that I'm drawing!
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I think I get the comparison you're making. PDP didn't become famous because he had a popular platform, he became famous because YouTube already had the right conditions in place for his platform to become popular.
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Replying to @nikhileshde @sonyasupposedly and
Likewise, POTUS isn't popular because he's charismatic, but rather because he says things some people already agree with, but weren't willing to say out loud before 2016, right?
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I'm not sure Sonya and I actually disagree, I think it's a matter of where we place emphasis. In both cases, there is an unpatched long-existing vulnerability and someone executing an exploit.
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Replying to @generativist @nikhileshde and
In the case of Trump, the exploiter is particularly bad — not in the sense that he's particularly skilled — its just that he's willing to do things that most people in such a position wouldn't. So it gets better by reversion to the mean.
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Replying to @generativist @nikhileshde and
But the vulnerability is still there, unpatched, because the whole point of power is its exercise and people still salivate over *their* imagined possibliites.
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