• Fleur_@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    Idk I read that passage and I can mostly understand what he’s saying, I’d go as far as to say it’s just as understandable as a lot of the word salad non answers from typical politicians. This sounds like how someone might present themselves in conversation, someone who isn’t trained in how to give speeches or have a high level understanding of language construction. People vote on vibes and the vibes trump is giving up is some guy you might bump into in the pub. That is an exceedingly valuable thing to have as a politician in a society that largely doesn’t trust its politicians. And in my opinion they have good reason not to trust them, it’s unfortunate who was able to capitalise most on that distrust though.

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      2 days ago

      Right, but there’s basically nothing there. He took all that time to say “Iran outnegotiated us”. Brevity alone isn’t a mark of quality obviously, but the point the person above was making is that underneath the bluster there really is very little substance. You had said you don’t know whether it’s actually dumb or just not what you’re used to hearing, and we’re both saying that yes it really is dumb. It can be effective and popular while being dumb as well, unfortunately