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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Feb 2017

    I realize this is optimistic, but maybe Trump is a vaccination rather than an infection, and we'll be net ahead in the end.

    6:16 AM - 7 Feb 2017
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      2. Dorai Thodla‏ @dorait 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Interesting. What makes you say that?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @dorait

        Watching the more thoughtful parts of society figure out how to resist him. Some of those antibodies are good to have.

        2 replies 4 retweets 67 likes
      4. Dorai Thodla‏ @dorait 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Thanks Paul. Reading through all the debates is fascinating and we seem to be more engaged.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Jonathan Schwartz‏ @JMSchwartz11 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        can you think of any historical examples of that happening?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @JMSchwartz11

        Yes, many. Correcting past abuses is one of the most common sources of laws and customs.

        1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      4. Jonathan Schwartz‏ @JMSchwartz11 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Before the election, I heard people use that argument to support voting for him. I guess it's a risk assessment.

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      5. Jonathan Schwartz‏ @JMSchwartz11 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @JMSchwartz11 @paulg

        what's the chance the infection kills us?

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      2. Antoine Valot‏ @avalot 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        what a pleasantly narcotic thought! Thank you! But wait... what if you're wrong?

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 8 Feb 2017
        Replying to @avalot

        You do the same thing regardless. The only difference is how much hope you have while doing it.

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      4. Antoine Valot‏ @avalot 8 Feb 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        good point. As long as we don't let hope dull our senses. ;)

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      2. Jonathan Libov‏ @libovness 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @paulg

        Thought experiment: How much worse would this be if a racist nationalist POTUS were unsullied and principled? If you believe...

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      3. Jonathan Libov‏ @libovness 7 Feb 2017
        Replying to @libovness @paulg

        ...that this realignment was inevitable (which I do), Trump is fortunately the most impotent incarnation of it

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      1. Simon Bayly‏ @simonbayly 7 Feb 2017
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        I doubt this particular vaccine would make it through FDA approval. Already some extremely unpleasant side effects

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      1. Pulat Yunusov‏ @pulat 7 Feb 2017
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        he is neither. Rather, he is a symptom.

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      1. Rick Waldron‏ @rwaldron 7 Feb 2017
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        an amusing word association: Trump has sympathized with anti-vaxxers

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      1. Oz‏ @ozanonay 7 Feb 2017
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        that's what the complex systems view suggests, as long as other institutions are robust. Have you read http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fail.pdf … ?

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      1. Giuseppe Ottaviano‏ @ot_y 7 Feb 2017
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        Montanelli said the exact same thing about Berlusconi in 2001. It didn't turn out well.

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      1. Tina Roth Eisenberg‏ @swissmiss 7 Feb 2017
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        I firmly believe that will be the case.

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