Factually, that’s what he did during his time in office as well. I’m not sure what they thought had changed.

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    Only semi-related:

    Hunter S. Thompson took great pains to speak in sports metaphors, because that’s the language of “middle America.”

    I’ve thought that, for a while now, video games have become the language of “middle America” and whoever can speak to the gamers in their language will capture their minds.

    Steve Bannon also understood this, and that’s why he succeeded in capturing many young men’s minds through Gamergate.

    We need people better than Steve Bannon speaking this language and leaving gamers with positive, healthy understanding of the world around them.

    Anyway, I write this because I think your video game metaphor really works here, and I think that’s the way to speak to a large portion of our populace now.

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      Anyway, I write this because I think your video game metaphor really works here, and I think that’s the way to speak to a large portion of our populace now.

      I don’t know that arcade metaphors really work for most of the population now, though. Even when I was young they were dying.

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      Make the guy who makes tier zoo on YouTube teach all democrats.

      Seriously, the devs took a big risk with the 2016 patch, they just didn’t like what the players did to that gorilla.