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by smgit 487 days ago
He has to announce some bullshit every day to Capture Attention or someone else is going to get the Attention. And that puts pressure on him to keep announcing things, more than anything else.

Given how the Attention Economy works Content keeps exploding, but eyeballs and time to consume it all don't grow at the same rate, so post frequency and absurdity of the posts shall grow with time. Keep count.

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Also, new bullshit today prevents people from thinking too deeply about yesterday’s bullshit. If Trumpers thought too long about yesterday’s report on those 150 year olds getting SS, they might realize all the holes in it, so distract. We are truly in an idiocracy.