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Like holy shit imagine getting dunked on by Bill Maher.

The thing is the left disdains to be dishonest. For us words mean things. For us truth means things. For us facts mean things. We intend to improve our lives through objectively better systems and decisions. The fascists and reactionaries can afford to lie because their actual goals are abhorrent so must be cloaked in excuses and other language.

The fact is also the reactionaries can lie because their followers enjoy it, because they are in power because capital is in power, because they're not held to account and because they don't value facts. Giving up one of our most notable differences between them and ourselves in that we are honest, they are dishonest, we care about facts and evidence, they don't seems foolish.

Is there some value in strategic deceptions? Yes. But not bald-faced lying against the entire bourgeois media machine with things that leave you easily dunked on. At that point you begin retreating into pride and start spiraling into accepting more and more lies to save face, to not challenge your beliefs rigorously, and to sink into a hole of conspiracy and wild supposition that drives people away from you.

If you fight a war based on lies the right will win. They are more experienced. They have a century of lies to draw on, they have the high ground of owning all the platforms, the media, of bourgeois academics being sympathetic to them and steeped in liberal orthodoxy.

And the thing is we'll never have a media machine capable of shouting down the right. Shouting and screaming that he was a fascist if he was indeed a communist won't convince Trump, won't convince the Trump justice department, won't convince judges, won't convince cable anchors, won't reach your average person. It's self-deception whereas the right's deception at least is broadcast and amplified and built on a series of foundations where it actually deceives others, it muddies the waters enough to frustrate their enemies in liberals because they're liberals.

Lying isn't acceptable. We should instead simply frame the truth in the optimal way. In this we employ rhetoric and should even embrace a sophistic flexibility with our own beliefs when trying to persuade. But fabricating facts simply torches your credibility and should be avoided. That's what chat GPT does.

Can't we just say at this point "maybe he was a grouper, he might have just been a nobody politically, but we will get more evidence soon and it doesn't matter anyway"

Obviously the trans roommate storyline doesn't hold up at all. The only thing we have solidly on his "political opinions" is hearsay from an uncle or something

But there are also a lot more important things going on around this issue, the admin will use it for further repression regardless

Not sure if I fully agree but you make a good point

I would really appreciate links about Tyler's groyper affiliation.

I agree though it does actually seem that the shooter wasn't a groyper like I previously predicted from the current evidence

I do however agree that you should lie and keep lying because no one cares or has cared about the truth in the US political environment for what is over 10 years now

Not just any chud anchor, but Andrew Neil. A man who runs infamous right wing magazine The Spectator, which pretty much sets the news agenda for the other papers and whose yearly garden party is as close to a public British media/politics 'Illuminati' meeting as there is. He's personal friends with Trump, owns an apartment in Trump tower. His magazine has published some of the most unhinged rightwing things written beyond the mid-forties, including a passionate defenses of both the lufwaffee and SS in the 2000s.

Ben is a fucking moron.

Gotta let'm know.

Kill the cop in your head & all that, but first thing I notice is his & the Dark Cowboy's (5 years ago when making a video to Pelosi) lil armalites look 2 or 3 parts too scary for CA libs.