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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like i wouldnt have expected playing this strategy while showing ones hand the entire time would work. i cant explain why i wouldnt have expected it to work but i wouldnt have and yet! much to ponder
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three common effects of telling everyone your plan before acting on it: 1. hurts your cause bc plan becomes known to your enemies and they can react accordingly 2. has no effect on your cause 3. helps your cause by coordinating action by allies or overaweing your enemies
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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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I think this is part of it, if you know you’ve got the stronger hand it seems like an effective strategy.
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i wouldnt have guessed going in he had the stronger hand. attribute his doing it anyway to some mixture of courage of his convictions, social vision, and joyful madness
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Yeah I wouldn’t have guessed that either. Seems he saw something most didn’t and is really good at executing
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