whats most interesting to me about @realchrisrufo is not the object level nor even the absolute extent to which hes managed to shape Discourse by pure force of will and animal cunning but the fact that he managed to do so while being completely open about his strategy and tactics
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generally i would expect "here are the rhetorical tactics i will use to advance my strategic aims" to be counterproductive because it would give advance warning and because it might lead observers to see you as insincere or manipulative, or leave you open to accusations of such
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i wonder if here the coordination/banner-planting value substantially outweighed this potential cost. and further that costs were not actually that high vs counterfactual because Certain People were going to call him a bad racist regardless of whether he announced his plans
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a further issue is that there might not actually be any effective counter to these tactics at current margins and so announcing them openly is a massive flex on ones opponents and quite demoralizing for them which matters in a preference falsification regime
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anyway this is just spitballing. i have no idea how i would test any of this and you shouldnt believe any of it. enjoy your Wednesday
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one other thought this may work especially or specifically when an opponent has been occupying a bailey for so long theyve don't know how, or that they need, to retreat in the face of a capable assault rufos opponents may have very much overextended themselves in this manner
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At some level, it's a power move. The best shit-talkers tell you exactly what they are going to do, and then they do it anyway, even though you know they are going to do it. Michael Jordan and Larry Bird lore is full of stories like this.
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There was a whole series of McDonald's commercials that revolved around them competing to see who could call and make increasingly unlikely shots
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People who say they've revealed their deck usually have multiple decks on standby. Known knows revealed vs unknown unknowns unrevealed
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Six dimensional poker
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You’re forgetting 4) it’s extremely based
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