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Cake day: November 28th, 2023

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  • Especially online - detection becomes possible over sustained interactions for only the most critical (at best), but you don’t get that online, and especially not on drive-by commenting, which is the norm for media/social media.

    Phony consensus and bad rhetoric are one system prompt away, and the only thing I’d argue is there probably is no escaping it, even for the most civic minded and informed people. Your best bet in the coming months is an awareness it’s happening largely undetected, that we’ve all fallen for it, and explaining it to as many people as possible.

    The big problem will be the vast majority thinks they can tell, that they’re uninfluenced, and that they have the inside line.




  • Definitely. But there’s learnings to be had here too.

    Even if/when stability returns after that (on a 4/8 year basis), we know their governance is now openly bipolar, more than it has ever been; it doesn’t care what the facts are, it’s base doesn’t care what the realities are, just the pretense and if their populist icon is winning.

    You can’t go back to trusting them as a center stage participant anymore, because in 4-8 years, you just get caught with your pants down again. Seeking out reliable, long term partners who are more resilient to full pendulum swings that gut everything is paramount, especially those that put international stability over momentary opportunistic grabs at public coffers.

    Trump’s wiping out trillions of America’s power and credibility for coming decades for a couple billion in personal wealth consolidation. Worst case scenario for him; he’ll just fuck off somewhere else. Or maybe he becomes god king of earth through incremental annexation. Either way he doesn’t give a shit, and the next opportunist won’t either.