brief good threadhttps://twitter.com/bobpoekert/status/986359072994689024 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Yeah but "sufficiently large quantity is a quality itself" and multiply proliferation oh horseshit by 1000000% is kinda new I think what we just saw happen is analagous to first uses of broadcast radio for propaganda
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
The last decade really made it blatantly clear that dishonesty from official sources of all kinds is the norm, which provided a fertile bed for all manner of dubious narratives to flourish.
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Replying to @theheathenjohn @danlistensto
hmm we've known that since forever though :/ don't you think? see: 1960s-70s
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the pentagon papers blew the lid off the credibility of the media-military-industrial complex for sure, but the issue there was far more narrowly constrained. "they're lying about the war" is different than "everyone is lying about everything".
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