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The liar has a “shameless willingness” to tell outrageous lies that lots of people know are lies.
The liar doesn’t care about consistency.
He doesn’t care if it’s obvious he’s lying.
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In fact, that's the whole point.
Putin perfected the method.
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It seems to come naturally to Trump.
@TimothyDSnyder tells how reporters were often so astonished by Putin's outrageous lies, that they focused on the lies instead of Putin's latest atrocities.
The lies became the news.
The actual news gets pushed off the stage.
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The goal is the “disruption of truthful reporting and messaging.”
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That's why Trump really wants an actual trial, and why he was so annoyed with the Supreme Court (and other courts) refusing to hear the case.
He wants a stage for the lies.
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From the Rand study: The Firehose of Falsehood technique “entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”
I think the "entertainment" part applies to the GOP leadership who know Trump is lying but cheer the lies because they are so destructive.
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Inside: DC's security theater panned; Weaponing and monetizing apophenia; Awful voting-machine demands silence; Someone Comes to Town Part 27; and more!
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DC's security theater panned: The curtain-call's gonna be BRUTAL.
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After the 9/11 attacks, airlines and public buildings adopted a flurry of "security" measures, like taking away pen-knives from fliers or requiring visitors to office buildings to be photographed or present a driver's license.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Weaponing and monetizing apophenia: 5G conspiracies have a business-model.
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In 2003's Pattern Recognition, @greatdismal discusses the role of "apophenia" - finding patterns where none exist - in paranoid thinking. We are a pattern-matching animal, prone to seeing faces in clouds and hearing speech in static.https://t.co/lKHfKbvzLN
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Awful voting-machine demands silence: ES&S; piggybacks censorship on Dominion's grievances.
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One of the great ironies of the "stop the steal" conspiratorial fraud and its focus on Dominion's voting machines is that voting machines are, in fact, flaming garbage.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Someone Comes to Town Part 27: My latest podcast installment.
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This week on my podcast: part 27 of my serialized reading of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," my 2006 novel that Gene Wolfe called "a glorious book unlike any book you\u2019ve ever read." It's my last podcast of 2020!https://t.co/AfW9wyix9A
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 11, 2021
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Here’s what we’re still investigating:1/
President Trump has sought to transform DOJ into a political weapon meant to serve his allies & punish his perceived enemies.
We've uncovered details on the extent to which Barr has aided those efforts, including the Durham investigation, Roger Stone’s sentencing & more. 2/
Our FOIA litigation revealed that Barr met frequently with federal prosecutor John Durham, who was tasked with looking into the origins of the Russia investigation — 18 times in the 7 months after the Mueller investigation ended.
On March 25, 2019 — just a day after Barr submitted his letter summarizing the Mueller report to Congress — Durham met with Barr, Barr’s then-Chief of Staff Brian Rabbitt and two career officials from the department’s Justice Management Division. 4/
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Despite Barr’s frequent public statements about the ongoing Durham investigation, DOJ has selectively chosen to invoke the “ongoing investigation” privilege to withhold documents the public needs in order to understand Durham’s work.