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This was supposed to be a longer thread, but whatever. Dear people. The Trumps & Exxons & climate deniers & dictators & so on don't care about truth, integrity or nerdy stuff like reality. They care about exercising their power one more day, and one more day after that. 1/
The sooner we stop debating the substance of the stuff they say, and start attacking their purpose in saying it, the sooner we will stop losing so very badly.
I don't know how I can say this more simply.
They. Don't. Care. About. Being. Wrong.
They. Care. About. Power.
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I don't know how I can say this more simply.
They. Don't. Care. About. Being. Wrong.
They. Care. About. Power.
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Remember Karl Rove? I do.
"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. ...
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"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. ...
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We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
He insulted leftists as "the reality-based community", where as the US empire was a reality creator. That's how power works.
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He insulted leftists as "the reality-based community", where as the US empire was a reality creator. That's how power works.
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Trump, Exxon, dictators, all of them: they don't care about our understanding of reality. They don't care about future on a livable planet. They care about exercising power to create a reality where they stay in business one more day, day after day.
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They lie deliberately to that purpose. And that purpose, not the lies themselves, is what we must learn to argue against and attack. The lies are a tactic, a distraction, in support of a larger goal. Don't be distracted.
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