Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Three responses to the GOTCHA
Stupid convective thought.
Fakers like Trump and Boris and now Putin have a standard plotline, comparable to many "long buildup" scams, and comparable to modern plays and novels.
In the Long Buildup, the scammer cultivates a relationship with the suckers. He does meaningless favors for them without ever using his own money. After the trust relationship is formed, he offers the suckers a chance to share in a BIG WINDFALL, but he doesn't have quite enough money to make it happen. He needs an extra $10k to get access to the BIG WINDFALL. The suckers feel obligated, so they throw in the $10k. The scammer then disappears.
The novel version is simpler. For the first 2/3 of the book, the sucker thinks he's reading a clean old-fashioned story about realistic people doing normal things and solving normal problems. At the 2/3 mark, GOTCHA! The characters turn out to be modern fuckheads doing bizarre anti-civilization shit, abusing the trust relationship formed in the first part, persuading you to adopt modern evil.
I can see three different responses to the Long Buildup / GOTCHA. They're clearest with Trump because he pulled the GOTCHA immediately after inauguration. Plenty of time to watch the course of response.
1. Suckers remain loyal, even though the scammer has made it PERFECTLY CLEAR that he hates them and wants to torture and kill them.
2. Suckers learn the lesson and avoid similar scams.
3. Non-suckers (eg establishment Repooflicans and Deepstaters) knew from the start that Trump was working for them. They took the "opposite" side in the puppet show leading up to the GOTCHA. Now they don't need to pretend. They're loyal to him for RATIONAL reasons.
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