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9 Jan, 20 tweets, 3 min read
List of possible topics for a series of short articles on Media Literacy:

1. Lying with numbers (percentages, averages, mean)
2. The dishonesty of saying Person X is "linked to" Person Y
3. Controlling the conversation on Twitter (aka why do they quote tweet each new reply in a conversion instead of just, you know, replying?)
4. Headlines versus text
5. Are they teaching you HOW to think or WHAT to think and can they disguise one as the other
6. The gish gallop and why it works
7. "Let's define our terms" as a strategy to create an unwinnable/unloseable argument
8. Overwhelming reason with fear/panic/anger
9. Identifying the argument and goals (technically I've already done this one but it needs editing into a new format)
patreon.com/posts/democrat…
10. Unfalsifiable claims versus truth
11. The perils of the "common sense" argument
12. The myth of "transferable expertise" (when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail)
13. I'm not sure how best to phrase this but I like the suggestion very much
14. Understanding the algorithm
15. Good suggestions here too, falling I think generally under "confirmation bias"
16. Frequency bias
17. Misleading data sets
18. The medium is the message
19. What is research (versus what is watching a video or reading a blog)?
20. Look backwards, but don't work backwards (do not begin with a conclusion and seek evidence to support your conclusion).

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8 Jan
I've read the chatlog all the way through. There are outside links to docs that I haven't fully explored. Some links are dead.

The log seems to support Arturo's claim that he was the primary source of the foundational evidence and theories Jim would promote and build upon.
Now, whether Jim "stole" anything is harder to quantify. If Arturo convinced him of a theory, and Jim repeats it, is that stealing?

What I can say is that Jim repeatedly promised him that it would be Arturo's story to tell when CNN was interested. And clearly that didn't happen. ImageImageImage
Then again, it also never happened because CNN was never interested. By the time Jim was getting the attention he felt he deserved, he and Arturo had fallen out.

But the *spirit* of that initial promise was violated, so I can understand why Arturo would feel this way. Image
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PSA: automated tweets like this have been showing up a bunch recently, promising a solution should your account get suspended. Image
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6 Dec 21
Michael's common tactic to exert control over his group is to threaten that he won't keep talking to them. Image
"Everybody, let's remember to try to not interrupt him, so can stay in his flow."

"Amen."
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"They want you to diet, because they want you to DIE-et."
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1 Dec 21
After jumping into the fight against Lin, Dan Bongino is now being accused of being in the 'black eye club.'

Most conspiracy believers think that a black eye is an indicator that someone is in the Cabal/Illuminati/Masons/etc but there are competing theories around *why*.
This comes up time and again, as a near constant in conspiracy circles, and has existed for years.
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30 Nov 21
wow, the Q Clock, that takes me back
this is the first post directly referencing the Q Clock I've seen in about six months

it used to figure very prominently in decodes
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For me, the best part is that this guy's not even using the Q Clock correctly, the 01/23 he's circled as the Proof is 01/23/2019, not 01/23/2018, and Q did not make a Drop that day.
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30 Nov 21
I can't say for certain in every case, but I know that spelling mistakes like these can be purposeful, and useful if structured like this.

They ultimately benefit the writer: diverting criticism from the subject at hand while not upsetting the target audience even a little.

1/ Image
Not *everyone* will get distracted, of course, but the most popular responses will always be people harping on the spelling error.

Which means they're not engaging on the rest of the statement.

2/ Image
Whenever the spelling error appears in the last sentence, I'm particularly suspicious because in argumentative structure, that last line is supposed to land hardest. It's the 'punchline' of the tweet. You know this subconsciously.

An error there hijacks your brain.

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