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    mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

    Our fundamental problem from the beginning of this crisis in the Anglosphere is that we have one and only one way of systematically informing high-level policy conclusions: "expert" (actually administrative bureaucrat) opinion mediated by a biased and incompetent political press.

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      2. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

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        It would be great if we got an admission of culpability from the people who have been firing from the hip and selling it as thoughtful policy (or punditry) since January, but I don't think we'll get it on a timeline that matters for near-term politics. https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1261243583517999104 …

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      3. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

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        What we've seen instead is the same sort of retcon that came years after Vietnam and Iraq. The fashionable progressive establishment rewrites itself into the right side of history and memoryholes any alternative narrative.https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1243983185215664128 …

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        Watching all these journalists retcon their editorial decisions from two months ago is an object lesson in the banality of evil. Past a certain body count you don't get to make incompetence/malice distinctions anymore.
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      4. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

        Fast-forward to 2030: instead of "Trump the incompetent buffoon who failed to close early enough" we'll hear about "Trump the scared over-reactionary who locked us down to a depression". Never mind that the first critique is closer to the truth, it has limited scapegoating value.

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      5. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

        Recall how in common cultural parlance Nixon and Kissinger are coded as the bloodthirsty accelerators of the Vietnam war, while Kennedy is remembered fondly for a moon landing that happened on Nixon's watch. It wouldn't be the first time.

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      6. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

        That's not to excuse Trump's rank incompetence. He's culpable for that incompetence, and if he had a shred of dignity he would have resigned over far lesser blunders. This unfitness makes him an excellent sin-eater for the administrative state's far more consequential failures.

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      7. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

        The immune system of the state and civil society has kicked into high gear, but not against coronavirus. They're furiously dispatching narrative antibodies to maintain the epistemic model that underpins our system of government. They're wreaking the body politic in the process.

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      8. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 15 May 2020

        Much like a covid patient suffering from a cytokine storm, the Anglophone body politic is under attack from both external actors and its own defense mechanisms. We've reached the point of sepsis and organ failure, and yet the twin attackers push on relentlessly.

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      2. Matthew Skala‏ @mattskala 15 May 2020
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        Unfortunate intersection with the mistakes made by computer programmers, who spend a lot of time in a world where the right magic words really do suffice to solve problems.

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      2. Kevin Waddle‏ @kevinwaddle 16 May 2020
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        The press is not the problem.

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      3. Kevin Waddle‏ @kevinwaddle 16 May 2020
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        Demagogues are the problem.

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