i guess the claim, which i think is mostly accurate, is that no one has any capability of starving others' arguments of attention — or if anyone does, it's the fascists now. 1/

there's still the asymmetry that their claims are purely instrumental, they face no truth constraints, seek only propaganda effectiveness, will happily flood the zone with shit. it's still true that debating with a Gish Gallop is mostly counterproductive. 2/

but gatekeeping won't work, and they no longer require "us" to help bring their propaganda attention. the President of the United States is megaphone enough. 3/

it's not a happy story. it's a story of we'd-better-figure-something-out, because right now the so-called marketplace of ideas is about as competitive as, say, the search market. civilized ideas are basically duck-duck-go. /fin