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Also in this newsletter: Is the United States facing secession? Two of my readers think so. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/what-does-th… "It has long been clear (at least to me) that another Trump minority victory would (or at least should) lead to strong secessionist movements ... "
I contemplate the Still-United-States' foreign policy toward the Sovereign and Independent Republic of Texas:
Another reader, however, thinks California is the real secession threat:
Read the newsletter for the details. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/what-does-th…
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What does the future hold? In this newsletter, my readers contemplate how much worse things could get. Adam Garfinkle imagines this scenario ... claireberlinski.substack.com/p/what-does-th…
A second wave: "By mid-October, the US death toll approaches 310,000. Trump denies the numbers and blames the Deep State for the rise in infections and deaths, obliquely implying that Democratic sympathizers ... "
And one in China, too: "Meanwhile, rabid Wolf Milk nationalists cause chaos in the manner of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution: Insisting the CIA deliberately re-infected China to prevent China from accruing the reputational advantage it deserves ... "
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I'd like to see him interviewed by someone who asks interesting questions about this. First, given that Facebook *does* label some information false or misleading, what kind of truth claims does Facebook think appropriate for its arbitration, and why?
Does Zuckerberg reject the notion of truth itself, or does he make the more modest claim that Facebook is unable to ascertain what's true or false?

If the latter, why? Does he think Facebook is like or unlike human beings in this regard?
Does he think human beings can answer questions like these, for example?

Is Montreal is north of Pittsburgh?
Is Saturn the sixth planet from the sun?

What about Facebook?
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Yes. But given the amount of power we've concentrated in the hands of the presidency, it makes perfect sense to worry about how deviant, defective, and declining he is. I wish we were speaking more often about how dangerous it is that we've turned the presidency into a monarchy.
It's certainly not what the Founders envisioned, and they had excellent reasons for not wishing the presidency to be a form of monarchy--as we're seeing.
And so long as we're operating with a grossly overweening presidency, we'll be at risk of the presidency being captured by dangerous demagogues. The presidency is what most needs to be reformed if we're serious about democracy.
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