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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      Lemme index a few topics here for future processing: 1. The charge that Trump was the victim of "unfair" double standards throughout his admin 2. The idea that his loyalty-based appointments and purges are the same thing as the detrumpification that will inevitably happen now.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      3. The idea that the collusion/interference investigation is on the same level as whatever conspiracy theories Trump unleashes about the legitimacy of this election. 4. The idea that Trump vandalizing of a whole slew of governance norms was either harmless or admirable cunning

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      I'll just index a bunch of topics here, but might not opine on all of them. These are just themes/questions of Excruciating Lessons Learned that are occurring to me. If I see good threads by other people addressing them, I'll just link them here.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      5. Future of old media, especially its opinion section clickbaiting and its polling section? 6. Future of new media (facebook, twitter, 4chan...), which played a good Mini-Me to old media.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      7. How should we think about instances of Trump doing what many who detest him felt was the right thing? Should it be regarded as simply "wrong person doing the right thing for the wrong reasons" as Milton Friedman put it, or should we look more skeptically at the "right thing"?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      8. If you believe, as I came to believe as early as July 2017 (6 months in, during the failed ACA “skinny repeal” attempt) that Trump regime was basically ransomware, how do you get it out and prevent future infections? https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/malware-is-choking-the-world …pic.twitter.com/FS0cIQsNbs

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      One thing I want to do with this meta thread is not let my unabashed middle-class globalist bougie class snobbery color my cold takes too much. Yep, I’m probably part of the class demonized as “elites,” and do harbor some of the contempt Trumpies sense and react angrily to.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      But I do believe that when I factor all that out, as best I can, we are left with real moral culpability that’s not just a matter of class/culture prejudice. There are crimes against shared humanity here. Remember, plenty of poor working-class whites *didn’t* vote Trump in 2016.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      Final meta point. Trump, despite being a rich, white, native-born, is an outsider lolcow in important circles where I, as foreign-born non-rich brown, am an insider. That this can be true is one of the deep, broad resentments Trump was a messenger for. Just acknowledging that.

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    10. Mike Wamungu‏ @MikeWamungu Nov 6
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      You truly believe this?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 6
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      Believe what? That I’m in or that he’s out?

      12:51 PM - 6 Nov 2020
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          Both

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          I guess how important circles is defined is critical here. How are you defining that?

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