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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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      This is true but was less so a couple of years ago. At this point I think people silent about the right have either flipped crypto-fascist/alt-lite OR written off that fringe as past redemption. Personally I still think tweet like they’re the 10x bigger threat. https://twitter.com/MarcBodnick/status/1281374596738904064 …

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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      I’ve become oddly okay with the presence of the far right on the political landscape. I think their tendencies towards physical violence have been held sufficiently in check. The rest is a matter of tuning out their verbal violence and combating their institutional agenda.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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      Woke is hysterically compared to Stalinism like it’s already creating starvation in Ukraine. What it’s doing at best is choking a few craven HR departments with right-think diktats (bad) and spotlighting police brutality, carceral state etc (good). The right otoh, where to start?

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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      There’s no point even trying to list what Trump’s goons have accomplished in 3.5 years of carnage. The gestalt headline is: destroy state capacity, drain all compassion and integrity from public life, and drive collapse in public health, law and order, and environment.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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      The only half-good thing I can think of to say about Trumpism is that it helped unmask the true nature of the Chinese state, and that at the great cost of a trade war that’s poised to destroy whatever capacity for global prosperity Covid leaves untouched. Pyrrhic accomplishment.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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      There is pragmatic criticism of the loony fringe of Woke (I definitely flipped from vaguely supportive to generally critical) and then there is moral panic sliding into frothing paranoia and full-blown Woke Derangement Syndrome. Makes Trump Derangement Syndrome look like sanity.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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      But this stuff is largely done. The culture war has done what history steering it was going to. We are in kicking-and-screaming denial phase. 90% noise and fury signifying nothing. 10% tying up loose ends. This war has been over since 2017. We’re just setting up for the next one.

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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jul 9
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          If you’ve read this far: the next war is definitely going to be around climate action. Avocado politics versus climate tech sector basically. Profiteer from predictable climate change impact vs try to solve it with innovation.

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        2. Chris Clark‏ @chrisclark1729 Jul 9
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          What's the next one? 😨

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          https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1281386868664229888?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1281386868664229888 …

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          If you’ve read this far: the next war is definitely going to be around climate action. Avocado politics versus climate tech sector basically. Profiteer from predictable climate change impact vs try to solve it with innovation.
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