https://nitter.net/ApostateProphet/status/1740441996811239683

    • GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      It's offensively lazy, and that's sort of the point. It's like Sartre said about anti-semites

      Never believe that [ZIONISTS] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [ZIONISTS] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        11 months ago

        It rings of the old Karl Rove "attack them in their strengths" strategy. When you can saturate media with these kinds of statements, its depressingly effective. Hard to argue when there is this deafening chorus line echoing the sentiment.

        British politics employs similar tactics. Doesn't matter if what folks are saying is dumb as dishwater. So long as that's the only thing anyone ever hears, its the only thing they believe.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Nah. It's cheap information attacks. The attack takes up very little compute time. Refuting it takes a lot more. This is why we have PIGPOOPBALLS. When the refutation isn't worth the time you can drop the old piggerino to shut them up and let everyone else know it's not worth fighting it out.

        • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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          11 months ago

          True. We have finite time and they have infinite resources, essentially.

          They can also keep repeating multiple propaganda failures until they hit one that sticks.

          Again, lots of money.