• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    16 hours ago

    What did it say that the president of the USA is non-stop pulling attention seeking stunts like your crazy aunt on Facebook? Guess it must be lonely being surrounded by sycophants.

    • lenuup@reddthat.com
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      12 hours ago

      Nah, he is just gaslighting overwhelming everyone. Tons of insane and insulting shit to occupy the media and people, so that he can pull all the stunts he he wants. Drowning everything in noise so that no one knows what to focus on anymore.

      Don’t get me wrong, he is batshit insane bud there is a certain method to his madness.

      Edit: Looks like I was using ‘gaslighting’ incorrectly.

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        14 hours ago

        It’s a terrifying mix of a Gish gallop (a stampede of lies and half truths, delivered so fast they can’t be countered) and razzle dazzle (camouflage via a swarm of irrelevant or counter intuitive points).

        It’s terrifyingly effective, and very difficult to counter.

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          12 hours ago

          Would be much easier to counter if there was a functional system of checks and balances or a well-educated population that’d hold their leaders accountable, but here we are.