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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Jan 25

    Is President Trump a Stealth Postmodernist or Just a Liar? (With a comment by me)https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opinion/trump-postmodernism-lies.html …

    4:17 AM - 25 Jan 2018
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      2. Psychopath Resistance‏ @PsychoResist Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/verUlGc1ja

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      3. Reid Lyons‏ @PReidLyons Jan 25
        Replying to @PsychoResist @sapinker

        THIS!

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      1. Shanty On Mickle Street‏ @MickleStreet Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is psycho analyzing Trump really going to get us anywhere? How can you hurt an immoral brand by explaining its immoral actions? MLK knew the oppressor needed morality to be swayed. It seems to me Trump is a solution to an American identity crisis.

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      1. Darwin1800‏ @Darwin1800 Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        No. Yes. But, if #Trump hadn't been born wealthy, he might have been a "Stealth Postmaster", i.e. one that steals money from the mail he handles. 📬 (Better he handles mail, than female. 😱)

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      1. Matthew Prorok‏ @MJtheProphet Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Just a liar. Short article.

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      1. Kath Riley‏ @riley_kath Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        The emperor has no clothes, no need to try and dress it up, he is a liar

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      1. Derek Rayrose‏ @derekrayki Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Ironically, a lot of thought given to someone who doesn't value thought.pic.twitter.com/PSFKqo5pTW

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      1. Rhonda‏ @7675376666rhon Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker @nytopinion

        He's not a stealth anything.He can't think beyond the next or last 5 minutes.

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      1. Peter Grant‏ @AtheistStoned Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Trump is not a postmodernist, but he is one of postmodernism's effects...

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      1. Waco Kid‏ @wacokid49_5 Jan 25
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        LIAR LIAR LIAR!

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      1. Andy Brice‏ @andybrice Jan 25
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        He's essentially just a liar. But the postmodern progressive left has enabled him to get away with more brazen lies through their own abandonment of objective truth.

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      1. Humean Being‏ @MetaHumean Jan 25
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        Both postmodetnists and Trump are bullshitters in Frankfurt's sense.

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      1. Billy Bonker‏ @bill_bonker Jan 25
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        He isn't a postmodernist, he's postmodernism itself.

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      2. kendalljoy‏ @kendalljoy Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        THIS IS ANNOYING

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      3. kendalljoy‏ @kendalljoy Jan 28
        Replying to @kendalljoy

        i calmed down enough to read this and the article was not too bad; it's the question that's extremely annoying

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      1. Marl Karx‏ @FedoraMarxist Jan 29
        Replying to @sapinker

        Trump, aka the king of alternative facts, is the biggest postmodernist in politics right now. The funny thing is his enablers also claim to hate postmodernism but are totally complacent with his relativism and denial of reality.

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      1. Robert Nugent‏ @RandR10 Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        I think it's clear from either case, the postmodernists representing themselves vs. them inaccurately being characterized as Trump-like, it's all nonsense.

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      1. phil wilson‏ @philwilson15 Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        He’s a master of secondary elaboration a la Festinger on cults!

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      2. Phil Torres‏ @xriskology Jan 25
        Replying to @sapinker

        Why do so few people seem to understand what postmodernism is? https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/ …

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      3. Finn Horsley‏ @FinnHorsley Jan 25
        Replying to @xriskology @sapinker

        Why stop with him? Did you @ Noam Chomsky with this tweet, too? Clearly he, too, is woefully ignorant of the manifest profundity that is postmodernism.

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