• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, maybe. It seemed like he was mostly leaving it alone to do some pretty serious journalism up until this point, but maybe he was just being very judicious with when he would intervene. Or maybe he was just distracted with other things and didn’t care. What you’re saying would make sense as a reason to have it, maybe even to keep it while it decays into a mockery of its former good thing.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      I think he left it alone because he didn’t need it. It was an investment and he sat on it until he suddenly needed it again. Well, here we are.

      Analogy: a knife doesn’t increase much in value over time and certainly isn’t the most powerful weapon. But when people start to forget that you have a knife and what knives can do, your knife suddenly becomes incredibly valuable when someone says they’re about the punch you in the face.