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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Very disturbing thing I have noticed recently is that U.S. officials no longer care about being perceived as lying. After the "SignalGate" scandal several top officials went public to claim that the information they shared was not classified (immediately disproved after it was then published) or that it was somehow "planted" there by a nefarious infiltrator, for which no evidence at all was provided. The reason they are doing this is because they don't care about convincing people necessarily, they just have created their own separate right-wing media echo chamber that just need to feed narratives to run with. We are well past the era of reasoned debate or persuasion. We are still far from that point thanks to separation of powers and a strong judiciary, but this is how dictatorships operate. Over time it generates a level of cynicism in the system that makes it unsupportable.
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@tricil.eth
oh we've *been* in a post-truth society since Trump Era One. It's just the mask is fully off now
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
I think what's more disturbing is the general acceptance that either it's okay, or nothing can be done about it, or a bit of both. First they came for (fill the blank in with whatever you want) and I didn't speak up etc. It's frankly terrifying reading what seems to be going on in the states right now.
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@johngalt13
When a lie becomes so obvious that there is no attempt to convincingly hide it, it is no longer just a matter of simple disinformation - it is the creation of an alternative reality for its supporters.
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@jonathancolton
Well said @mazmhussain !
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@badadvicehq
I think it's raining dictatorship, because Africa (especially Nigeria), is having her fair share of it. The future is scarier now, the government doesn't fear or respect the people anymore.
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@sydneyjason
It’s straight out of 1984. The cabinet officials talk about sending “Truths” Just like the Ministry of Truth, designed to push propaganda/lies in 1984…
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@nounishprof
It's not a lie, if you believe it. -- George Costanza Been fascinating to watch this play out.
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@olystuart
The US is a fascist dictatorship of capital and idk why people still call it a democracy or that we have separation of powers .. it's all just illusion. The US is on the brink of ending humanity by nuclear war and we still sit around going oh well at least there's still checks and balances. Anyway I'm not directing this frustration at you Murtaza to be clear, but the media and population at large. More bearish on humanity surviving every day.
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@aviationdoctor.eth
My surface-level take is that unapologetic lying among the leadership leads to an erosion of the social fabric and a more mendacious society overall (in a “leading by example” way that normalizes this behavior at all levels). It’s worrying, because (in my perception) a defining and enduring trait of the American ethos has been its ability to reliably speak the truth (hence the big deal about perjury that doesn’t really translate in other cultures). However I’m listening to Nate Hagens’ The Great Simplification podcast, and Izabella Kaminska (as guest) makes the contrarian point at the 32.5-minute mark that Trump lying so reliably paradoxically places a cap on how much disinformation can seep into society. It’s not that we’ll end up believing the lies or lying ourselves, it’s that we’ll stop making trust assumptions about others so readily because lying is expected. https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/the-great-simplification-with-nate-hagens/id1604218333
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@gigamesh
Any theories on why Goldberg is letting Mike Waltz claim they don’t know each other and letting them all tar him?
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@lostmidas
Did they ever care?
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