Because he’s a politician and he understands that his rhetoric has to ramp up slowly to convince his audience. Go to your local pub/bar and say that to someone that isn’t a terminally online ML, see how they react.

$50 hat bro is he fr 💀

Note that all Big Lies serve the dual purpose of crushing dissent, because prople thwt disagree with the leader will expose themselves by saying stuff like this.

Legalize 6th-gen fighter jets. Give me my Pepsi harrier!

Obvious/surface level/aesthetic comparisons change hearts & minds. Nobody’s reading 160 pages of book unless they agree (broadly) with you already. Headlines & theory serve different functions.

Not blurred for me, outside the US, but the satellite images have been updated since yesterday.

Yes. It’s attacking its own institutions. Strange, isn’t it?

Capital finally taking the market out behind the barn.

On a 777 the angels blind you with divine light so you can’t find your way out of the slot machines.

Yes these are also bad.

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Organisations aren’t entitled to use automated systems to alter people’s behaviour (i.e. here they’re using an algorithm to maximise the number of ad clicks). It should only be allowed if it’s in the interests of the people affected, and with their (informed) agreement

Ban optimisation without popular consent!