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 (DIR) Post #AnGX6Dk2KDlJuWAyXY by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-10-22T13:21:58Z
       
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       i think a thing that’s really hurt Harris as a candidate is that she hasn’t made a lot of mistakes.the discipline required to avoid any hint of scandal creates a perception of inauthenticity, a sense you just don’t know the person you are asked to vote for, that they are dissembling, hiding something.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnGb6MrQosAw0gxcXY by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-10-22T14:06:49Z
       
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       @_dm this is an interesting analysis, but it’s worth noting Republicans lied flagrantly when there was the opposite of a legitimacy crisis, when a US administration thought it could basically shape reality by fiat. there may be multiple, different situations that encourage political dishonesty: the hypotheses aren’t mutually exclusive. but it’s interesting how the variegated circumstances have a through line in the Republican party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
       
 (DIR) Post #AnGmVs7OqBlPgmnFuy by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2024-10-22T16:14:40Z
       
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       @_dm i’m not sure i had a point. it’s just interesting, that across really diametrically opposed eras in terms of state legitimacy, going beyond consensus reality has been a constant aming Republican leaders. maybe it has to do with religiosity, a worldview that emphasizes the power of myth over the constraints of circumstance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnGxo0W5SDmkRaBtwG by LesterB99@mastodon.social
       2024-10-22T18:21:12Z
       
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       @interfluidity This is some kind of democratic version of peter principle