Read on Twitter
every time this account wants lots of engagement they post a simulacrum (neuschwanstein castle, mad men, this) knowing this opens them to ridicule w/o diluting the underlying message https://twitter.com/western_trad/status/1276169156820381705
I think it’s a conscious trolling/marketing strategy
Russian MFA trolling is the same idea I think, but also functions as internal signaling to russian diplomatic elites https://twitter.com/nateschenkkan/status/1276183012447858689?s=20
in general, there is something we might call a strategy of "conscious but limited vulnerability". In grad school I heard the advice that when submitting a paper, leave a few easy-to-spot, easy-to-fix gaps. That way reviewers, who are often pressed for time, will
focus on those easily solved problems and be more likely to recommend R&R. I've always been too scared to try that, but also, it seems a little overwrought as a strategy!
anyway, to continue overthinking this, I think Trump typos and subsequent typo-roasting are also part of this strategic distraction at least some of the time. Vulnerability to easily-produced ridicule is sometimes engineered for a reason: everyone wants a bite
also why fact-checking him is sometimes besides the point and already adopts his desired frame ("actually, mr. president, immigrants make up a small proportion of violent crime" etc)
and to bring it all back to the first tweet, if the perks of internet fame are sufficient, and strategic vulnerability to mockery gets you there, who is the real fool here? https://twitter.com/xenocryptsite/status/1276366442200477697?s=20
