those adversaries would not have been able to crank the volume if the conditions had not existed

Ad slop and AI slop have served their purpose in destroying people's confidence in information.

But if there were a healthy public discourse, there would be little acceptance of the slop economy, absurd lies, and repulsive rhetoric.

It's clear that we did this to ourselves towards the very ends of both foreign and domestic people that want to end the current order.

From Russia to Peter Thiel in the Epstein files, they all want the US to undergo an even worse Brexit.