I am so sick of the persistent invention of bad ideas they’re trying to make real. It’s like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it’s a real fact.
Stop trying to make Fetch happen, Vance. It’s never going to happen.
I don’t know if you actually believe that repeating a lie does not increase the number of people who believe it or if you’re saying you don’t think it should work that way. Either way, I think the state of this country proves pretty decisively that it absolutely does work that way.
The “Big Lie.” Even Hitler was “open” about it - in positing that the “Big Lie” was Jews being responsible for Germany’s failure in WW1, he was asking his audience to accept a true “Big Lie.”
Allegiance to outright falsehood is about a marker of being of the right ideology. Political parties have always been like football teams to some of these folks - it’s about having the correct tribal markers and spouting the slogan. Words aren’t really supposed to mean anything - what they are communicating to everyone is “we want to invade Greenland.” They are signaling to their audience and just know that they can say whatever they want, while we scramble to respond to the words and not the meaning.
Denmark isn’t doing enough to keep Greenland safe?
First of all, is there some conflict there that I’m not aware of?
Second of all, we have a goddamn US military base there. Are the troops behind you not doing enough to keep it safe?
I am so sick of the persistent invention of bad ideas they’re trying to make real. It’s like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it’s a real fact.
Stop trying to make Fetch happen, Vance. It’s never going to happen.
I don’t know if you actually believe that repeating a lie does not increase the number of people who believe it or if you’re saying you don’t think it should work that way. Either way, I think the state of this country proves pretty decisively that it absolutely does work that way.
It worked for Trump. Twice!
The “Big Lie.” Even Hitler was “open” about it - in positing that the “Big Lie” was Jews being responsible for Germany’s failure in WW1, he was asking his audience to accept a true “Big Lie.”
Allegiance to outright falsehood is about a marker of being of the right ideology. Political parties have always been like football teams to some of these folks - it’s about having the correct tribal markers and spouting the slogan. Words aren’t really supposed to mean anything - what they are communicating to everyone is “we want to invade Greenland.” They are signaling to their audience and just know that they can say whatever they want, while we scramble to respond to the words and not the meaning.
This. And why did the US abandon more than 10 other bases and operations up here since the end of the Soviet Union.