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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 29
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    So I just watched the stand-back-and-stand-by clip. He trotted it out so casually makes me think it’s a conventional turn of phrase in some circles? Sounds vaguely military.

    8:02 PM - 29 Sep 2020
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 29
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        I think this counts as deterministic terror rather than stochastic

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 29
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        The phrase is a superposition of ridiculous and scary and we won’t know which until the wave function collapses.

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      1. entroflea‏ @entroflea Sep 29
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        He played for time by asking Wallace to "give me a name" so he wouldn't have to say it. He knew what he was doing.

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      1. 𝔸𝕓𝕙𝕒𝕪‏ @AbhayPrasanna Sep 29
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        𝔸𝕓𝕙𝕒𝕪 Retweeted Merriam-Webster

        https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/1311126617880698880?s=20 …

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        Merriam-WebsterVerified account @MerriamWebster
        'Stand back': to take a few steps backwards 'Stand by': to be or to get ready to act #Debates2020
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      1. Michael F. Martin‏ @riemannzeta Sep 29
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        I wish having that the clarity here was going to swing some in the middle. I'm afraid too many of the swing voters are privileged non-minorities, like pro-lifers who will vote for him on that issue alone. How many will see that we are all at risk from fascism?

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      1. Sam Morgan‏ @sjmog1 Sep 29
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        I think he was trying to walk a line and self-corrected halfway.

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      1. Mihir Wagle‏ @waglesworld Sep 29
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        They already made it part of their logo

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      1. RY‏ @MathiasRusted Sep 29
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        That was my initial reaction too, but I kind of suspect it was a calculated, preemptively developed phrase - It fulfills the usual trumpian goals of signalling to the extremists that they're important, well providing deniability with the "stand back"

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      2. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd Sep 29
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        PB boards are already creaming themselves over it.

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      3. Carlos Bueno‏ @Archivd Sep 29
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        pic.twitter.com/saJKF3P6CV

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