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Sep 11, 2021

The Lie Itself Is The Point

Facts are stubborn things.

We have to be able to establish agreement on the facts as they are.

2 + 2 = 4. It's not 3 and it's not 6.9, and we're not going to negotiate and then settle on 5.1. 

Either it's 4 or y'all can fuck off and stay home.

Brian Tyler Cohen


First, the big lie makes Trump and Republicans seem more marketable to the rubes.

Second, it's not only a pretext for pushing their voter suppression laws, it acts as inoculation for them.

ie: They say "the election was rigged!", and everybody else says "bullshit". Then they can go about actually rigging the next election, pointing back to all of us, saying "bullshit", and they'll defend it with "even the Democrats say there's no fraud etc etc etc".
  1. Authoritarians lie as a means of demonstrating their power
  2. Every accusation is a confession - the lies tell us what they're up to
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