ive mostly stopped paying attention to afghanistan after i concluded last week that were/theyre just totally fucked. but it is interesting to me that the administration just keeps on flatly lying about it with easy video access and news coverage contradicting them dailyhttps://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1430630064085942273 …
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I've been thinking through an alternate theory, which is that the narrative approach to communication simply cannot coexist with the new high-fidelity world of mass video and information. Narratives dimensionality reduction simply cannot reconcile with the actual info in reality.
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I think the closest people get to succeeding here, are like, Scott Alexanders 10k word posts, that interleave multiple narrative and data.
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This will be the situation that proves that there is no fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals when it comes to ignoring realities that they don’t like.
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You can lie successfully to anyone about anything as long as they want to lie to themselves.
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Tens of thousands successfully evacuated every day, versus one anecdote where it sounds like the UN member was indeed successfully evacuated, but was first beaten by the Taliban. Calling this "a lie" is outrageously misleading. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-conflict-un-staff-exclusi-idUSKBN2FQ1LE …pic.twitter.com/Xq9xVaHd2x
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die outraged
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why stop now it's worked since... *checks watch* literally forever
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I think this is the correct take
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They are right. Press is on their side, and for most commentators only polls of American opinion matter as a yardstick.
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