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 (DIR) Post #B4zQBLc7OEMpH5NWLo by adamgreenfield@social.coop
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       Regarding DJT: I’m generally not of the Bluesky-libs “he’s lost it” crowd, which so often depends on tendentious readings of his utterances and a general unfamiliarity with old-New York speech patterns besides. But yes, he does seem to have lost it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4zQBLriSEqO3SfyfA by aredridel@kolektiva.social
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       @adamgreenfield Yup. His speech patterns are a style I understand the meanings behind and they're not incoherent most of the time.But he is also showing a lot of signs of dementia _and_ he's got the cognitive atrophy of being surrounded by yes-men his whole life. He's addled the way dictators get addled. Disconnected from reality in that he literally lives in a different immediate reality, a cocoon created by his power and capriciousness.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4zQBMAVKNsAzjSywq by dahukanna@mastodon.social
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       @aredridel @adamgreenfield Not to be picky, “atrophy” means loss of use of existing abilities. You can’t atrophy something you never had in the first place 🤷🏾‍♀️!