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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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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Shd declare your rhetorical strategy, then do the opposite
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It's a good rock paper scissors tactic to tell your opponent what ur going to do apparently
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We live in an information-oversaturated age. So much info floating around you always have a more appealing option to believe than truth, and the evidence to support. This means people can - and very often do - get away with sharing plans openly. People just don't hear, or dismiss
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It can work—Penn & Teller do this, for example, and it signals that they’re confident enough in their skill that even if you know it’s a trick it will look like magic.
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Also effective in this case because as long as Rufo can make CRT a term with negative connotations, people aggressively saying “That’s not CRT *are still talking about CRT and keeping it salient*.” Nobody remembers “I am not a crook” as the moment Nixon exonerated himself.
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tangential thread but there is a very similar principle to social interaction which I think is at play also, it's a mild form of the hypnosis dynamic at play--i.e. those who protest "I can't be hypnotized!!" are the most hypnotizeablehttps://twitter.com/sadalsvvd/status/1324602074320035840 …
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