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bably, somebody like him came up with that because it's so sticky. You can make everything fit into it. It's like oh Trump said this. Well that's kind of dark. Oh a Republican said that. Oh that's a dark image. And that if you just get this idea of dark in people's minds, dark just brings with it all the scary stuff right? So it seems to me it would be a branding mistake for pro-Trump people to u…
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Well so there's a, as I tweeted cryptically, there's sort of an I am Spartacus thing happening right now. And if you know the reference from the movie Spartacus, Spartacus was hiding among the slaves and when the Romans were asking for Spartacus to stand up because they didn't have facial recognition back then so they couldn't tell who was Spartacus in this crowd of slaves, somebody who was not Spartacus stood up to accept whatever punishment Spartacus would have. And they're like okay you know I guess if you say you're Spartacus come here we'll kill you. And then somebody else stood up and then slowly everybody stands up and they're all Spartacus. So you know it was ki
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nd of like a famous movie scene. And I'm watching what I would call a subtle Spartacus movement in which people who have tremendous influence in society but they're not elected, it's just people whose opinions are going to move your opinion more than other people, they're starting to emerge. I told you that Naval has just sort of very subtly weighed in and said of course we're going to fight over…
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