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		musha68k on Aug 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive ac... The problem is that historically this has been the case only when it was essentially too late. Death by a thousand cuts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality

ethbro on Aug 2, 2020 [–]

That feels like fuzzy, post-hoc rationalization.

What about when we consider the opposite? How many insignificant-in-the-moment-seeming changes never effect any sort of larger change?

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