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Trump screws the Census
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f28b89fc5b6a34284be7c76?test_ad=tabo...
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Well that would go with the whole maths problem. It's numbers that are the problem! Numbers make it hard to tell a good story :
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 12:40am
"You can't do that" > I read that as: reporters are present to learn the story of the interviewed and report it. Where do they get off trying to interject their own story?! Faux news!
He really is our first Postmodern president. It's PoMo to the extreme.
Something like a census is just another construct with an agenda.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 12:47am
That's hilarious - Trump's aides have given him a huge dementia-proof kids-gloves like huge bar chart with only 4 bars to wave around in his "we're last, which Is first" insistence.
It's like visiting my dad in the nursing home, so sweet. And those big awakening eyes when he remembers something from a few decades before...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 1:18am
Trump floats Epstein Murder again - Is that to own Hillary, or subconscious display of guilt?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 7:19am
Beyond the dementia issue, it really struck me as post modernism writ large, that there is no reality, only individual interpretations of it in each and every brain.
In that context, you don't need a census, people will just argue about what it means and how it should be interpreted. In a democracy, you just go with majority belief, in a dictatorship, you go by what the bossman believes.
Critical theory is no different in this vein, it's very post modern in that it challenges power "structures" of society that influence individual thought, hence the extremist practitioners of include attacks on math and science. They really are doing nothing different from what Trump does. They only confusing thing about what he does is that it's not formed by an ideology but based on narcisssism of "stable genius."
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 1:44pm
The Buckley-Chomsky debate Is an icon of the past. Now it's "debates are a repressive imposition of The Man", "what's a debate? Oh no, this Is all wrong", leading to just trash the studio/station and we we'll just co-opt the process And declare Victory as if a debate took place.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 2:32pm
There's seems to be a movement in that direction. It's well in evidence here. But it's far from universal yet. The debates on religion with Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, and Dannett are very interesting, rational and very much in line with the Buckley vs etc debates. There are still those doing rational discussions of differing opinions whether friendly or adversarial and those who appreciate them
by ocean-kat on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 5:15pm
Yeah, i mean more the political aréna, the Brooks Brothers Revolution et al
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 5:38pm
yes:
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 7:01pm
Cheech and Chong wait for Godot.
One can see the man struggling to remember the phrase he was coached to repeat but is always a single step too far away.
by moat on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 4:43pm
Methinks you pegged it. If you look at old videos of him from like the 80's, it's so clear, he was a very snappy salesman back then. It's a quibble on whether it's dementia or everything is just over his head and overwhelming. After all, he was used to working in total control of a small number of favored yes men employees on projects of his choice.
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 5:19pm
Well, he is a bullshitter who turned the skill into a revenue stream. Being able to deliver proposals that tell the listener what they want to hear is a kind of knack that requires paying attention to how the mark is reacting to the pitch.
Also, an actor must remember some of the lines. Most have the good sense to stop operating when they cannot do it any longer. Others wait for the cane to pull them off stage.
by moat on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 6:53pm
Scrap the debates
https://digbysblog.net/2020/08/you-cant-debate-a-monster/
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 3:41am
You can not scrap the debates. Too many will say it's because Biden is senile and too many will believe it. Biden has to debate to prove he'snot too old to do it.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 4:53am
Litmus tests
https://youtu.be/RzffCuopKwg
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 08/04/2020 - 4:58am