# Sam Stone believes Trump's tweets

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**Created:** [October 10, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone-believes-trumps-tweets/922633 "2020-10-10T13:47:45Z")\
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> [@Knowed\_Out](#):
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> Seriously, why is it when conservatives are called for their lies and mistakes, they assume that a cabal of liberals get together in secret and scheme on ways to destroy them?

As I said elsewhere, there’s an obvious reason for it:

> [@Trolls R Us redux \[Now the argument clinic\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-redux-now-the-argument-clinic/913349/1446):
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> …[I]f you frame all criticism of your and other right-wing arguments in terms of “They’re just saying that because of blatant partisan hatred”, it’s all a win for you. You get to:
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> 1. Call everyone a “hivemind”;
> 2. Claim persecution; and
> 3. Avoid all accountability for your own statements.

It’s probably also relevant that _this is how many conservatives operate_ - the new partisan narratives get parroted on relevant right-wing media and social media sites, and suddenly they’re all repeating the same lines virtually verbatim. Left-wingers don’t really operate like this (for better or worse); the “herding cats” analogy tends to apply (as well as the “circular firing squad” one).

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