Thinking of it as yet again we descend into an tedious analysis of whether Trump ever called Covid a hoax. Meaningless question. He drops words like “hoax” into bullshit the way a terrorist might drop poison into water supply, as a general flavoring added to a developing gestalt.
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He lacks charisma. He can’t paint sentiment panoramas. He can’t create general moods of skepticism. You’ll get a vague sense of what he believes and a clear sense of what he’s mad/happy about, but you won’t go where he’s pointing, to the extent he’s pointing consistently at all.
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In general, people who think careful use of language is an effete mark of elite weakness don’t deserve careful analysis of their own words. Only of the cumulative effect of those words over time, on general sentiment and behavioral dispositions. Because that’s all they intend.
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Ie if your attitude is “fuck nuance” be prepared to be judged on broad contours and evidence of strategic intent, not the details you clearly don’t care about. https://kieranhealy.org/files/papers/fuck-nuance.pdf …pic.twitter.com/jF2GC2kWZH
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There’s a syndrome here you could call “stochastic offense, deterministic defense.” When his bullshit works, oh my, he’s a master manipulator illusionist magician beating the elites at their own word games and owning the libs. When it fails “he was taken out of context!”
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Trump apologist trolls like Scott Adams do this a lot. When it works for them, they are masters of postmodern subjectivist solipsism, deftly weaving bullshit force fields. The only way they can be “taken” at all is “out of context.” When the bullshit blows back, whine and moan.
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Biden seems to feel very sincerely.
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