For those of you who feel the need to disseminate Trump's own posts for him, I've edited his most recent incitement so as to avoid contributing to the problem.
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Can I make a suggestion? Use drab olive green to block out his text. That color is generally considered unappealing (hence chosen for plain cigarette package in many countries).
Thanks! I'll try it. I originally aimed for blank canvas to emphasize that we ALWAYS pick and choose which quotes we use. But that's a great suggestion.
I tend to agree with you. But I’m not sure he has the intelligence to do this as part of some plan that he can articulate; I think that he does this on pure, uncontrollable instinct.
I have great respect for your work, but "Totally capitulation of free will to his obvious manipulation" is a bit silly.
Trump's intended audiences on this are (a) ppl involved in his cases and (b) his personality cult. Both groups have definitely got the message without any help from me.
No. You, and especially journalists, are ALSO his intended audience for this manipulation. That you think you're above it all is a nice conceit, but false.
This is not a MESSSAGE it is a means to reinforce a structure of power.
Not going to argue more about this because I don't want to get blocked from your good content, but I think your analysis of where the reinforcement of Trump's power structure is coming from is skewed.
Persuadable voters who see his insane behavior *hate* it. Cultists will see it anyway.
He wants his opposition to be outraged, his cultists to act on what he says, and the undecided to admire his supreme confidence in himself. It's all calculated to provoke a response; anyone disseminating his rants is just helping him along.
Sure. but one reason cultists love it is bc of the way journalists disseminate it. They hate the journalists, and so their opposition to it provides value to the posts. It's all about reinforcing conflict and journalists have, FROM DAY ONE, been a key part of generating that conflict.
Perhaps the happy medium is to highlight Trump’s “batshit crazy but not incitement” content. I feel normie voters really don’t get his head-wound crazy Trump is, what with all the bothsidesing “Biden is old” coverage.
What would you say to those who argue that the depths of his delusion and anger need to be seen by more people in order to have them realise exactly what he represents and wants?
But I do wonder how many are willful and how many are blind. It doesn’t matter because social contagion, like all virulent bugs, doesn’t give AF about intentions. The masters of it—Hitler, Eichmann, and TFG—knew/know that, too.
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It is still giving him EXACTLY what he wants. Totally capitulation of free will to his obvious manipulation.
Trump's intended audiences on this are (a) ppl involved in his cases and (b) his personality cult. Both groups have definitely got the message without any help from me.
This is not a MESSSAGE it is a means to reinforce a structure of power.
Persuadable voters who see his insane behavior *hate* it. Cultists will see it anyway.
It really is an addiction or a pathology at this point.
But I do wonder how many are willful and how many are blind. It doesn’t matter because social contagion, like all virulent bugs, doesn’t give AF about intentions. The masters of it—Hitler, Eichmann, and TFG—knew/know that, too.