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2026-03-23 20:45 UTC
@qhstone @Jer @isaackuo Trump maybe *could have* learned to understand diplomacy and alliances, 20-50 years ago, if someone had taught him the elements of Game Theory and strategies for winning the Prisoner's Dilemma, and cold-bloodedly framed it as "this is how you maximize winning". But he's too old, demented, and angry to learn anything like that now. And back then he was just playing at being a real estate gangster, so not interested.
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@Jer@chirp.enworld.org 2026-03-23 20:49
@cstross @qhstone @isaackuo his entire worldview is stuck in the 19th century- his views on power, race, economics - all of them are pre-ww2 viewpoints I suspect that, like many failsons of rich abusive fathers, mostly just internalized Fred's rants on the world and has never thought more deeply than that