• nolannice
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    1122 years ago

    How to say whatever you want and not get in trouble:

    1. Lie to the public to rile up your base
    2. Conservative news reports on your lie
    3. Wait until you’re in court to say ‘lol jk’
    4. Conservative news conviently doesn’t find retracting your statement to be newsworthy
    5. Your base still believes your lie
    • Drunemeton
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      582 years ago

      It’s important to note that the #1 rule of Misinformation is: Be First.

      The information doesn’t have to be accurate, verifiable, etc., it just has to Be First and it’ll get repeated often enough that people will start to believe that it’s true. “Oh Shirley, how can ‘Biden Eats Babies’ be wrong when I’ve already seen 18 shared posts on my wall this morning [Meta/Facebook] talking about it. I’ve received 3 e-mails from other family members talking about it. Why I even saw 4 articles on my favorite websites last night and this morning reporting on it. They can’t all be wrong!”

      Then when the truth tries to assert itself there’s so much noise that it gets drowned out.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        82 years ago

        A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

    • dub
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      32 years ago

      It’s pretty crazy. Say what you want about the Democrats, and you can say a lot, but at least they hold each other accountable to some extent. This is brazen

  • @[email protected]
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    222 years ago

    I wonder how much Ghouliani was sweating as they were raking him over the coals. Such a horrible shity peraon.

    • Flying Squid
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      92 years ago

      And was he sweating hair dye?

  • style99
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    112 years ago

    That thumping sound you hear is Trump getting thrown under the bus.

    • girlfreddy
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      22 years ago

      Hopefully that bus does forward-reverse moves for the next 17 months and wipes him from the election.

      • norb
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        62 years ago

        Pretty sure he’ll be on the ticket for president as either a convicted felon (possibly running from jail) or actively on trial for federal offenses. There’s nothing in our laws or constitution to prevent such a thing. The old assumption that the “party of law and order” voters would toss a criminal to the curb are pretty much out the window as well.

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    82 years ago

    Sue this motherfucker to oblivion

  • @root
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    32 years ago

    Shocking.