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Are we fucked, Josh, writes Adam. Hello, Adam. He says, I'm not normally a dostack. Are we fucked? Josh, writes Adam.

Hello, Adam.

He says, I'm not normally a duma,

but Trump and the populists

and the endless culture wars bullshit

and the splintering of social media

into camps that can't even agree on basic facts

all have me worrying

that Western civilization

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