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EMANUEL: It takes quite a bit for a submit to shock me today, particularly if it’s from a identified shitposter just like the president of america, however I’ll confess that I used to be shocked by Trump posting a video of a lady getting crushed to demise with a hammer final night time.
I’m not a giant believer within the “Trump is doing X as a result of he doesn’t need you to consider Y” concept, nevertheless it’s onerous to not learn as no less than an intuitive need to vary the topic away from the conclusion (?) to his disastrous journey in Iran. It’s not going to work both means, and that’s not going to be the legacy of his posting fashion both. What’s sticking with me for the time being shouldn’t be the graphic nature of the submit itself or the try and demonize sure minorities—sadly none of that’s shocking at this level—however that I don’t know if it’s doable to roll again this degree of acceptance of even embrace of depravity in our tradition.
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