https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/103pwm4/comment/j30tl1w/
godDAMN i hate the way redditors write like they're giving a speech in a movie, and just like in a movie when you look past what they're actually saying it's a bunch of nothing with some horrendous takes in between. :negative:
They are giving a speech from a movie! That "every lie owes a debt to truth" line is ripped from Chernobyl lmfao
every lie that is told is a debt to the truth
Goddamn can you imagine the boner he got writing that one
Ah yes the show where they lied about the incompetence of the Soviet government in dealing with an unprecedented disaster?
There's an amazing episode of the West Wing where the president has a dictator killed and is like "For the first time, America has been forced to assassinate a foreign leader", it's wild af.
People have already forgotten about Havana flu, super fentanyl, and the 80’s huh? lol
When you throw enough Curveballs, everyone else keeps lowering their expectations of the next pitch.
mom, the CIA owes me a truth debt for assassinating JFK and blaming it on the ruskies!!!!!!!
As far as I know the current discourse is that all the Nazi iconography amongst Ukrainian forces is just to offend Russians and has no baring on their actual politics :agony-minion:
Our unelected, president-murdering intelligence agencies are beholden to public trust! They would never lie!
I try to keep up with my monthly minimum truth payments so I can build lie credit and tell bigger lies.
I don't mind being called a liar when I'm lying, or about to lie, or have just finished lying. But not. When I'm telling. The truth.
the US intelligence community would have a lot to gain
And for little gain in the scheme
Ok. I know this is a shit take IRL. obviously the CIA etc lie. The whole empire is built on lies.
But this is a good quote. Just purely from a writing perspective!
Obviously, in typical :reddit-logo: fashion, they went on and diluted the impact with unnecessary sentences. But I can definitely see a good kernel in here that you can edit into a proper piece of dialogue.
@UlyssesT, what do you think?
I'm guessing this one:
Because it would horribly undermine public confidence in intelligence assessments. And for little gain in the scheme.
Every lie that is told owes a debt to the truth. And the truth calls in debts when it pleases and with interest.
Russia is a country that has shaped its post-Cold War self around lies. The lies that they want to believe, the lies that they agree to believe because it is convinient and makes them feel better, and the lies that they agree to believe because the truth would be so deleterious.
Lies aren't a powerful weapon against Russia. Lies are what Russia is used to.
The truth is a powerful weapon against Russia.
"Every lie has a price, like the town drunk that thinks no one's counting the tab. That drunk bastard will keep drinking until it's time to pay up."
How's that?
Only if it's like, a first person perspective of a dumb guy. Truth isn't some superhero that keeps lies in check, there is no karmic response to lying. It's just saying things that aren't true on purpose.
Only if it’s like, a first person perspective of a dumb guy.
I know. I only wrote within the parameters of what I was told to write. :edgeworth-shrug:
Ooh that’s good, yeah. The kind of metaphor a character use also tells you about the character. I can imagine the person saying this as a mean old fart/mentor figure with a heart of gold.
