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He is an Attention addict. Just like Trump. They keep churning out shit everyday to get people to pay Attention to them. Why else buy Twitter/start truth social etc. So that their drug keeps flowing.

Their biggest source of anxiety in life is enough people aren't paying attention to them. Anything else that captures more Attention is an automatic existential threat. Netflix captures a lot of Attention. Therefore its a threat.



I'm told it's part of a deliberate strategy called "flooding the zone", via Bannon.


Couldn’t both be true at the same time? You’re an attention addict and use it deliberately.


100%. It's weaponized attention whoring.




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