tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post7667830711198886365..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: Chaos is a LadderDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-60709681746372616292017-11-07T02:07:21.854-08:002017-11-07T02:07:21.854-08:00Maybe the Russians were the ones who persuaded him...Maybe the Russians were the ones who persuaded him to run in the first place. His subsequent policy decisions were evidently guided by Russian interests; the parsimonious explanation is that his initial decision was guided by them too. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-39767419911850621422017-11-06T13:37:44.856-08:002017-11-06T13:37:44.856-08:00“Following a new WSJ report indicating that Russia...“Following a new WSJ report indicating that Russian twitter bots backed Donald Trump from the very beginning (when his campaign was a joke, rather than today where it is a far, far crueler joke), Kevin Drum asks what motivated them to step in so early.”<br /><br />How can we explain the behavior of twitter bots--GOD, COULD YOU BE MORE PATRONIZING? <br /><br />Did you ever consider that perhaps we twitter bots just really, sincerely like Trump? Like, did that even occur to you? <br /><br />Ya know, English ain’t so easy—especially if you’re not sentient. We bots do what we can, but with all you articulate yahoos race around, spouting off your well-crafted turns of phrase, it can make a bot feel—well, small. <br /><br />Then along comes this orange giant of a guy and NO ONE thinks he’s small. Ok, maybe a bit small in his hands—but we bots don’t have hands at all, so that doesn’t faze us. <br /><br />And more to the point, HE HAS A MARGINAL COMMAND OF ENGLISH. He has a third-grade vocabulary. And a similarly limited range of topics that interest him. He uses short sentences. Even sentence fragments. And he repeats himself. A lot. I mean, a lot. <br /><br />With folks like him on Twitter, it makes the rest of us feel---included, ya know? Like he’s made us part of something bigger. Or we’ve made him part of something smaller. Either way, we’ve finally found someone who speaks on our level. A lot. I mean, a lot.EWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704258203202907249noreply@blogger.com