Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Posted a hot take on the Trump assassination attempt in a subscribers chat on substack
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Insightful read. I am more agnostic than you about the really-long-term prospects of the US republic, because its capacity to reinvent and self-correct itself out of doomsday trajectories and dire predicaments is second to none, and usually ends up defeating many a pessimistic expectation. Of course, this only works until it doesn't. In the medium term, I would add a point about Trump himself, at the risk of undeservedly embellishing his character and reading too much into events far removed from me (as I am neither a US citizen nor resident). If you remember that election night in 2016, there was this idea that Trump himself had neither expected nor wanted victory (see https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html for example). Trump was, after all, living a very comfortable Manhattan life, being wealthy beyond measure and free in his agenda and movements. That all changed when the punishing exigencies of the POTUS role befell upon him. 1/2
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not parzival
@alexpaden
i don't agree with the outlook and am optimistic about unification - I do agree that the left is quick to point violence at the right, and are themselves often violent nice read tho
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rafa
@rafa
Feels like the moderates response here is to basically retract into trying to preserve local semblance of normality, while the large narrative just collapses into reality-TV drama. I hope there’s a recovery, but honestly I don’t see where it could come from. Speaking to certain family members, they want / need the show.
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
"After deep reflection, I think this is a bad sign." Top comment on MR The lines here about echoes of Italy are spot on. Regarding a political renaissance, any thoughts on the abundance agenda / faction / framing https://overcast.fm/+Teb7spl5o
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Ivy
@ivy
bang on except for some demographics ie at least mine it is going to be pretty apocalyptic in the short term
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Jon
@cryptojon
already thought why is nobody talking about that here
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NotFloris 🫂
@notfloris
150 $DEGEN
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