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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No. The key to that piece is what Trump is actually doing, not that characterization of it. By reacting to the latter, you walk away from the former.
Thank you for acknowledging that what Trump is doing is new. I know it's hard for you to do that, and I appreciate the effort. But it's not just that he's lying. He said Democrats are guilty of treason and un-American for not supporting him. I don't see that as a natural expansion of the game, and you can pretend it is only by abstracting away from what he is actually doing.
The answer to your question is, we all do. It's a democracy, and we are all engaged in a constant process of agreeing on rules and norms. What Trump is doing to gratify his own ego and to advantage himself and his political party is deeply corrosive to our common challenge of trying to live in the same country together. The fact that most Republicans are going along with it should be deeply disturbing.
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No, man, you just don't get it, with your cute little civics lessons about society collectively setting the rules that govern us, you stupid fucking snowflake. Fuck that tired ass shit, man. Don't you see, it's time to flip the script. Trump is all like, Ima gonna disrupt the shit outta this motherfucker. It's rational, it's the only way he can win. I mean, if you can't win by playing by the rules, it's not only o.k. to cheat, it is a moral requirement! Actually, fuck cheating, man. I don't think he's going far enough. Sebastian's totes right about this one, dude. You gotta flip the whole game upside down, pour some gas on it, and burn it. You know who really disrupted the hell out of some shit? Pol Pot, man. Pol Motherfucking Pot. Dude was like, there is no way I'm gonna win playing by the rules of these corrupt motherfuckers who came before me, some I'll just kill their asses dead. Who's gonna stop me? The motherfucking educated urban elite motherfuckers? Not when I ship their sorry glasses-wearing asses off to the country to be reeducated. What else was he supposed to do? It was entirely rational. HE HAD TO DO IT. No way he would have been able to #win if he had played by the conventional rules set up by suckers like you. So he tore the pages out of the rulebook and wiped his ass with them.
