Fact checking is a worse-than-useless approach to counter programming bullshit. Brandolini bullshit assymmetry principle —“It takes 10x more effort to refute bullshit than to produce it” — applies doubly to fact-checking, so like 100x. You need better refutation models.
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For b, there’s no substitute for investigative digging, whistleblowing, etc. Every big thing he stonewalls on, he also runs a project of interference, obstruction, intimidation, etc. So far he’s won by the “absence of evidence” logic (absence he’s engineered). He’s blameless.
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Trump by himself is unimportant now. He’s done his damage for his handler Mitch, and is already in the trash can of history. But he’s installed a culture of bullshitting that so far has no cure or vaccine 4 years in. Time to build a refutation playbook that actually works.
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And yes, this thread is bullshit too. Takes some bullshit to fight bullshit. White-hat bullshit like Alec Baldwin’s impressions. https://twitter.com/karlmaeser/status/1252390816795918336?s=21 …https://twitter.com/KarlMaeser/status/1252390816795918336 …
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Side effect: this is a blunter, more nuance-missing approach. Bad faith, strawman. Which may be fitting in this case, but builds a habit of crappy discourse. Another way to describe how DJT is damaging politics.
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It's also a bind. Go blunt — miss nuance, get hosed for that, for bad faith. Go nuanced — get tangled in the web, tired out.
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