Well, strength AND reason. Not mutually exclusive.
But great ad ideas.
Yup.
The real problem is is that the truth will never be as powerful as lies.
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” - Terry Pratchett
Nothing against Pratchett, but that quote goes back to the 1800s:
I disagree. Truth generally beats lies. Because truth has a big advantage; reality is on its side.
Look at Covid19. Trump lied and said it would not be a problem. And then Covid19 started killing thousands of people. Trump’s lie collapsed.
There will be no need for that: we will see everyone in the room weeping uncontrollably from the smoke and stench of the burning shit.
Yeah, and I just got this email from my mother:
Truth beats lies for rational people who are capable of critical thinking and not motivated rationalization.
We don’t have enough of those right now, I don’t think.
This is probably just a blip for now, but I don’t think this is over. Sooner or later, investors are going to be confronted with reality: there is no point investing in companies that aren’t making money - fake vaccine or not.
When the market bubble finally does pop, I think it’s going to splatter all over the damn place. I would not be surprised to see the Dow back down under 20,000 and it wouldn’t surprise me if it were to lose 60% of its current value. This is a Ponzi scheme market we’re cooking up here.
In what sense? All the people that believed him before Covid killed thousands of people, still believe him after Covid has killed thousands of people. Seems like the lie is holding up pretty well.
There probably has been some support among some independents and centrists; those who still identify as republican, however, know what he stands for and fully support him, lies and all. They probably think he doesn’t lie enough.
The new narrative I’m seeing is, :The people who died died WITH Covid, not BECAUSE OF Covid.
Twitter has covered up Individual 1’s tweets urging double voting, though they haven’t removed them altogether.
Individual 1 refused to visit a US military cemetery in Europe because the service members who died there were “losers” and “suckers”. He doesn’t want wounded military members to appear in military parades. And he doesn’t understand why the United States joined World War II on the side of the Allies.
I see a Lincoln Project ad about this in the near future. What a disgusting person. Not a surprise, given what we know about him, but holy fuck, did he forget about Pearl Harbor?
How the fuck does he have any support from a single member of the military?
Yep, got exactly that from my family today.
Forget? No. That would assume that he knew anything about it in the first place.
As far as people dying WITH COVID and not BECAUSE of COVID, well, that bullet didn’t kill them, massive brain trauma killed them.
I thought I’d totally lost the capacity to be shocked by Trump, but I was wrong. We all knew he’s a sociopath, and only understands things on a transactional level – but to read accounts of just how deep that runs and what a broken, sorry excuse for a human he is, is…shocking.
I think he was actually talking about WW1.
“As the vilest writer hath his readers, so the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” - Jonathan Swift