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Trump is an unhinged, fascist demagogue leading a fascist party. He enthralls millions who see their lower selves and basest instincts reflected in him and are energized by that.
Or AI could become the incarnation of a stoned college freshman and become a podcasting phenomenon.
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Or AI could become the incarnation of a stoned college freshman and become a podcasting phenomenon.
Just want to stick up for novels here; they aren't "hundreds of lies that add up to one big truth", they're hundreds of little truths, in detail, that add up to one big truth.
You have to be stupid to conflate 'fiction' with lies and even stupider to hear the conflation and melt into a puddle.
You have to be stupid to conflate 'fiction' with lies and even stupider to hear the conflation and melt into a puddle.
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Just want to stick up for novels here; they aren't "hundreds of lies that add up to one big truth", they're hundreds of little truths, in detail, that add up to one big truth.
You have to be stupid to conflate 'fiction' with lies and even stupider to hear the conflation and melt into a puddle.
You have to be stupid to conflate 'fiction' with lies and even stupider to hear the conflation and melt into a puddle.
And nobody collected on the bet that they would because nobody would take the opposite side of that bet.
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And nobody collected on the bet that they would because nobody would take the opposite side of that bet.
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"This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. And when the sewers back up, all the Rapunzels and Mowglis will look up from their pharmaceutical staring and their ass-slapping and their beat-bopping and scream, 'Save us!' And I will whisper, 'No.'"
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. And when the sewers back up, all the Rapunzels and Mowglis will look up from their pharmaceutical staring and their ass-slapping and their beat-bopping and scream, 'Save us!' And I will whisper, 'No.'"
But she does like to have weighty tomes laid about to catch the eye and signal her apparent depth. The pose is everything to this one.
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
But she does like to have weighty tomes laid about to catch the eye and signal her apparent depth. The pose is everything to this one.
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I just want to stress that this has nothing to do with the rest of the chapter. She has an epigraph, a bizarre intro paragraph, a description of Britney Spears dancing in 2002 and then a section about Donald Trump promoting birtherism.
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I just want to stress that this has nothing to do with the rest of the chapter. She has an epigraph, a bizarre intro paragraph, a description of Britney Spears dancing in 2002 and then a section about Donald Trump promoting birtherism.