We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
-Karl Rove
I hate to say it, but listen to Karl Rove. We have to do way more than just study what these people do after the fact with “rational takedowns of their delusions.” Our rational takedowns have done fuck-all in ten years. We’re fighting a misinformation war, and information like this, while true, doesn’t sell or speak to the fucking jabroni brownshirts that back Trump.
We’re way way way way way way way way past being able to just reason a third of the country back into being decent people.
Like we’re watching Project 2025 in Shock and Awe action. Maybe we should have done more about that before he was President again, yeah? Instead of waiting to write rational takedowns after they’ve already succeeded.
Years ago I had a coworker fall down the online rabbit hole of denying the moon landing happened. I told him that in college I used the astronomy department’s large telescope to look at the moon landing site myself, so I could guarantee that the landing actually happened. He knew me and trusted me, so he believed what I told him and stopped trusting the online conspiracists.
Of course you can’t actually see the moon landing site through a telescope. I was lying. My lie countered their lie, so my friend believed the truth. The left needs to understand how this works and use it. The average person will believe an easily understood lie over a complicated truth.
We need to tell people fossil fuels cause autism. We need to tell people the covid vaccine makes it so aliens can’t track you. We need to tell people that Trump is secretly sending out ICE to confiscate all guns from American citizens.
Just like we always needed to fight Republicans breaking the law to fuck everyone with breaking the law right back to fuck them. They always accused the left of doing it anyway, why not fucking just do it then?
Like Merrick Fucking Garland should have never been given the AG position as a consolation prize. Too much trying to gladhand these fuckers who are literally stabbing you in the back every time you shake their hand.
You’re a hundred percent correct. It’s a misinformation war, not an information war.
My advice to Opinion Column Writers:
-Karl Rove
I hate to say it, but listen to Karl Rove. We have to do way more than just study what these people do after the fact with “rational takedowns of their delusions.” Our rational takedowns have done fuck-all in ten years. We’re fighting a misinformation war, and information like this, while true, doesn’t sell or speak to the fucking jabroni brownshirts that back Trump.
We’re way way way way way way way way past being able to just reason a third of the country back into being decent people.
Like we’re watching Project 2025 in Shock and Awe action. Maybe we should have done more about that before he was President again, yeah? Instead of waiting to write rational takedowns after they’ve already succeeded.
Years ago I had a coworker fall down the online rabbit hole of denying the moon landing happened. I told him that in college I used the astronomy department’s large telescope to look at the moon landing site myself, so I could guarantee that the landing actually happened. He knew me and trusted me, so he believed what I told him and stopped trusting the online conspiracists.
Of course you can’t actually see the moon landing site through a telescope. I was lying. My lie countered their lie, so my friend believed the truth. The left needs to understand how this works and use it. The average person will believe an easily understood lie over a complicated truth.
We need to tell people fossil fuels cause autism. We need to tell people the covid vaccine makes it so aliens can’t track you. We need to tell people that Trump is secretly sending out ICE to confiscate all guns from American citizens.
We need to fight liars with liars.
Just like we always needed to fight Republicans breaking the law to fuck everyone with breaking the law right back to fuck them. They always accused the left of doing it anyway, why not fucking just do it then?
Like Merrick Fucking Garland should have never been given the AG position as a consolation prize. Too much trying to gladhand these fuckers who are literally stabbing you in the back every time you shake their hand.
You’re a hundred percent correct. It’s a misinformation war, not an information war.
Exactly. People and media need to realize what looking glass we have just traveled through.
My advice to opinion writers at the NYTimes: You are the genocidal avant-garde of delusions and misinformation.