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The Trump administration is about to learn that you can't BS your way past a disease. Viruses don't care that you are denying reality and falsify your claims when you do. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Viruses don't care that you are denying reality.
Viruses don't care that you are denying reality.
Viruses don't care you are denying reality in Iran either
The Republican governor of Arizona knows viruses don't care you are denying reality
Viruses don't care you are denying reality
Viruses don't care you are denying reality
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Brendan Nyhan
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At some point, this stuff will be everywhere (and there's a lot). The only question is when. washingtonpost.com/outlook/damned…
Cognitive dissonance has not proven to be an obstacle thus far
For context, see this thread. The clip is only one part of a much longer video that is more balanced. My point is that he has a pattern of surprisingly positive statements about various awful regimes that will be used against him (but hasn't been yet)
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Very worrisome - we've never seen such an ambitious and coordinated effort to destroy confidence in the American information ecosystem. Many tactics are disturbingly reminiscent of those used in authoritarian countries.
In the @mckaycoppins piece, he notes that Republicans plan to attack the local news ecosystem as well, including using the fake local sites I wrote about in @UpshotNYT (nytimes.com/2019/10/31/ups…) to seed damaging articles about opposing candidates theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
@mckaycoppins @UpshotNYT However, warnings about the persuasive effects of microtargeting are overstated and the corrosive effects of misinfo exposure on trust in news that @mckaycoppins experienced have not been definitely established. We need to learn more quickly, though, given the plans in place.
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Consider the counterfactual: How long would this be permitted if the people who did it were not white men?
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Trump's letter:
+appealed to reputation/community sanction
+appealed to historical reputation
+appealed to good-faith negotiation
+used common sense reasoning & cost-benefit analysis
+made explicit threat against Turkey's economy
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Authoritarian to authoritarian rhetorical strategy, no doubt.

It's interesting to think about what Trump thinks will persuade someone like him.
I mean, the letter is incredibly informal, but he is actually making appeals to what he thinks will motivate the guy to comply. <this is not a defense of Trump, his foreign policy, or anything else pro-Trump>
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