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I mean, in case you think I oversold it
>January 8th, 2021
>The reason I don't hold forth on politics isn't because I think it will hurt my business or something. It's okay if someone thinks that; very few people actually know me, by design. There's a couple reasons I don't generally do so. The main one is that I don't have the kind of opinion about myself that says "you have such robust, meaningful positions on matters of import that you simply must be heard." The character I play, the Smug Intellectual, is just that. I became known by accident at the dawning of the consumer internet, and I'm mostly here to show off my word collection. I'm comfortable saying you should generally scroll past me, and I would be ashamed to offer myself as a source of wisdom or a model for emulation. But let me tell you something I haven't done: I haven't tried to lead an insurrectionist movement in the United States. So, maybe I'm better than at least one motherfucker.
>Here is my position, to the extent that anybody wants it: I think that if you start calling fundamental democratic norms into question, and then literally foment a Goddamn rebellion, you've entered into such profoundly fuck you territory that the response must be absolute - unless we want to set our watches by this kind of shit. It's an attack on such fundamental social machinery that the person responsible for it needs to be extracted from power itself. Now. Because if there aren't consequences for this, actual consequences, and frameworks put in place to inoculate our government from it then we're governed by a kind of circus. Otherwise, Donald Trump is just a quirky member of some elite club, alternately a clown or a devil, as opposed to someone gnawing at the roots of the tree that holds the nation up. Everybody I know is running as hard as they can just to stand still. It would be a profound comfort to know there was such a thing as Law.
I mean, in case you think I oversold it
>January 8th, 2021
>The reason I don't hold forth on politics isn't because I think it will hurt my business or something. It's okay if someone thinks that; very few people actually know me, by design. There's a couple reasons I don't generally do so. The main one is that I don't have the kind of opinion about myself that says "you have such robust, meaningful positions on matters of import that you simply must be heard." The character I play, the Smug Intellectual, is just that. I became known by accident at the dawning of the consumer internet, and I'm mostly here to show off my word collection. I'm comfortable saying you should generally scroll past me, and I would be ashamed to offer myself as a source of wisdom or a model for emulation. But let me tell you something I haven't done: I haven't tried to lead an insurrectionist movement in the United States. So, maybe I'm better than at least one motherfucker.
>Here is my position, to the extent that anybody wants it: I think that if you start calling fundamental democratic norms into question, and then literally foment a Goddamn rebellion, you've entered into such profoundly fuck you territory that the response must be absolute - unless we want to set our watches by this kind of shit. It's an attack on such fundamental social machinery that the person responsible for it needs to be extracted from power itself. Now. Because if there aren't consequences for this, actual consequences, and frameworks put in place to inoculate our government from it then we're governed by a kind of circus. Otherwise, Donald Trump is just a quirky member of some elite club, alternately a clown or a devil, as opposed to someone gnawing at the roots of the tree that holds the nation up. Everybody I know is running as hard as they can just to stand still. It would be a profound comfort to know there was such a thing as Law.
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