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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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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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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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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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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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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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