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Ocelot II

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8. His rants do have a Teutonic flavor, but I think his capitalization quirks
Sat Nov 15, 2025, 11:28 AM
Saturday

have more to do with the fact that he's writing the way he thinks (which is shouty and incoherent). He wants us to know that some things are VERY IMPORTANT, and since capitalizing words is the only way you can yell on the Internet, he does it by using all-caps. As well as SHOUTING, he capitalizes the first letter of some words, adjectives as well as nouns, that he wants to emphasize. But although this gives his rants a bit of a Führer vibe it's not so much Germanic as illiterate. You read his social media posts and figure they came from an angry teenager with oppositional-defiant disorder posting from his parents' basement, furious because they're turning off the wi-fi at 10:00 pm so he can't look at porn all night.

Occasionally Trump writes something that might work in Fraktur, though. Maybe he should persuade his Fake Twitter techies to give him that option.

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