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diff --git a/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md index 180e77a..0ec0765 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md @@ -1,17 +1,16 @@ --- title: "Trump as a tool, not an idol" -slug: trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:05:11.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:05:11.000Z draft: false excerpt: "Certain jobs require a certain type of person. The moral character of the politician is irrelevant to whether they are the right tool for a specific goal. This is the … Read more" categories: - - { name: "Dark Culture", slug: dark-culture } + - Dark Culture tags: - - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } - - { name: identity, slug: identity } - - { name: politics, slug: politics } - - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } + - format-opinion + - identity + - politics + - tone-confrontational featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/cover.png alt: "Dark industrial tool - pragmatic political analysis concept"content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/
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diff --git a/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md index bfecab4..a75fe88 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ tags: - { name: politics, slug: politics } - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2aaf74c8b21.35368532.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d2aaf74c8b21.35368532.png alt: "Dark industrial tool - pragmatic political analysis concept" legacy_wp_id: 15978 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md index 75d0f69..bfecab4 100644 --- a/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ slug: trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:05:11.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:05:11.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "Certain jobs require a certain type of person. The moral character of the politician is irrelevant to whether they are the right tool for a specific goal. This is the … Read more" +categories: + - { name: "Dark Culture", slug: dark-culture } +tags: + - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } + - { name: identity, slug: identity } + - { name: politics, slug: politics } + - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d2aaf74c8b21.35368532.png + alt: "Dark industrial tool - pragmatic political analysis concept" legacy_wp_id: 15978 --- Certain jobs require a certain type of person. The moral character of the politician is irrelevant to whether they are the right tool for a specific goal. This is the same logic applied to rave lineups: bookings are about sound cohesion, not character references.feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..75d0f69 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2026/trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: "Trump as a tool, not an idol" +slug: trump-as-a-tool-not-an-idol +pubDate: 2026-04-05T20:05:11.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T20:05:11.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 15978 +--- +Certain jobs require a certain type of person. The moral character of the politician is irrelevant to whether they are the right tool for a specific goal. This is the same logic applied to rave lineups: bookings are about sound cohesion, not character references. + +I do not like a lot of things about Trump, and I did not vote for him. But for a trade war, he is the perfect paranoid, unhinged piece of work necessary to bring back manufacturing. That might sound like a hot take. It is pragmatic philosophically. + +## The tool framework + +Obama was well spoken but ruthless. Trump is poorly spoken and ruthless. The competency matrix has two axes: communication and execution. The public evaluates politicians almost entirely on communication. The outcomes are determined almost entirely by execution. The disconnect between these two evaluations is where most political confusion lives. + +The pragmatic position: evaluate the tool by the job it needs to do, not by how the tool looks on the shelf. A hammer is ugly and violent. It is also the correct tool for driving nails. The person who refuses to use a hammer because they find it aesthetically offensive is not morally superior. They just have undriven nails. + +On immigration specifically: I personally blame the Biden administration for not processing everyone correctly. But this whole deportation thing has been done by both Democrats in the past with Obama and now with Trump — except Trump is just doing it with way less quality control. The policy direction is bipartisan. The execution quality varies. Evaluating only the current administration’s execution while ignoring the previous administration’s identical policy is not analysis. It is team sports. + +## Why this matters in nightlife + +The rave scene tried to make political alignment a condition of participation. After the election, the scene split. The promoters who had built their identity around opposition to a political figure had to recalibrate. The promoters who had built their identity around sound and community did not have to change anything. +Diff truncated (42 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
