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[–] brucethemoose 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Many in and outside the US don’t realize Trump was a controversial idiot before he touched US politics, even before he heckled Obama about birtherism.

…But he was also a good snake oil salesman.

He could hype people to buy shit they really shouldn’t buy, like massively overpriced real estate sold from his private company to his public one. As unintelligent as he is, I feel like the opposition has ignored just how effective he is at spraying hype.

[–] cmbabul 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s really extra infuriating that my professional frustrations with sales people being idiots is going to be the thing that blows up the world

[–] brucethemoose 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

To badly quote the transformers paper...

Attention is all you need.

Apparently, it is :(

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