my tribe: everything is an op ; believe nothing you read, and doubly so if a journalist wrote it also my tribe: omg, omg, omg, this book written by a journals says that a general contacted the Chinese. That's it; it's time to start killing people
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4/ Hillary Clinton claimed that she ran under gunfire in the Balkans Obama claimed he remembered black churches burning Biden claimed he visited a certain synagogue a general claims he called the Chinese first 3 proven false put that in your Bayesian equation & smoke it
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5/ we will never know if it happened no one will ever be punished you have no control over either of the first two points ignore it; plan next year's gardenhttps://twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1438209740010516481 …
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6/ every regime faces one massive question of narrative creation: "what story do we tell the peasants to justify our position at the top of the pile / first in line at the trough full of spoils?" many narratives have been tried >>>
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7/ "we senators descend from a long line, originating with the gods Romulus and Remus" "we emperors are literally gods [ at least upon ouyr deaths ]" "we kings are appointed by God" "we presidents and seators represent the god / demiurge known as 'The Will of the People' "
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8/ what an absolute coincidence it would be if the first n-1 of these were just pure propagandistic con jobs, but we - we lucky denizens of 2021 American - are lucky enough to just HAPPEN to live in an era where the legitimacy store / divine blessing is true !
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9/ is he denying it? is he not? I've never met the guy anything I might possibly know is intermediated by journalists and editors why would I derive any conclusions from what journalists tell me? why would I even have an opinion on this topic?https://twitter.com/Davejb70/status/1438213960105345029 …
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10/ 10 or 15 years ago I was running a small ~ $1M/yr firm (that's revenue, not profits...which were closed to $0 !). My bookkeeper told me "ok, I've balanced the checkbook for the year" I handed the books to my accountant, to prepare the taxes she called me up >>>
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11/ at 9pm one night and freaked out "the books aren't balanced! I looked at June, and your bookkeeper claimed it's balanced, but it's not!" me: "ok, well, I'll go into the office tomorrow and figure it all out"
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12/ she continued: "I looked at July, and your bookkeeper claimed it's balanced, but it's not!" me: "ok, well, I'll go into the office tomorrow and figure it all out"
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13/ she continued: "I looked at August, and your bookkeeper claimed it's balanced, but it's not!" me: "ok, well, I'll go into the office tomorrow and figure it all out"
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14/ She continued freaking out: "Travis, you don't seem to be upset about this!!!!" I replied "Sharon, would it help things in some way if I acted more upset?" <long long silence>
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15/ so, anyway I am not upset about some journalist claiming that a general claimed that he called the Chinese "online frens, would it help things in some way if I acted more upset?"
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