"In politics, it creates a bias not towards the left or right, but downwards. Any position that could be less evidenced, more stupid, would be the one that would fly."
"The manipulative algorithms, the spread of misinformation, the generation of weird hostilities, the amplification of divisive narratives - it was all right there..."
"There was a lot of preening and boasting, a lot of puffed-up position-taking. And this was before AI, so...those triumph-over-adversity stories hadn't yet arrived."
"Between a thoroughly made, well-evidenced and profound case for change and the pull of absolutely minute convenience and the comfort of inertia, there was a clear winner."
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