• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    I get what you’re saying from the context, but the way you phrases it makes it sound like it’s becoming more clearly defined that Trump is not Hitler. Generally, more “blurring of the lines” equates to a thing becoming less clearly distinguishable from another thing.

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      9 hours ago

      If one circle is blurry, it can look like a Venn diagram.

      As it gets more focused, it looks like the Venn just overlaps more than it did originally.

      Then one day, everyone’s like “wait a minute, it’s been a single blurry circle the whole time” and everyone can see it.

      It’s not common usage now, but has before. So maybe they switched it up on accident, but if it was intentuonal then it wasn’t necessarily wrong. They just meant as the differences get more defined, we realize they aren’t really differences.