miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoNoem says LA 'would have burned down' without Trump's National Guard deploymentwww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down110file-text
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minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up93·2 months agoDelusional. But that’s the fascist playbook. Just keep asserting absolutely delusional things and flood the zone with bullshit (as Bannon puts it).
minus-squareFreshParsnip@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-22 months agoMy aunt says if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
minus-square(des)mosthenes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·2 months agoI was gonna say this
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoThe lies are audacious though. Most people know this is a lie but there’s no consequences so it is then taken as a display of power. The word I use for this is mendacity.
Delusional.
But that’s the fascist playbook. Just keep asserting absolutely delusional things and flood the zone with bullshit (as Bannon puts it).
My aunt says if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
I was gonna say this
The lies are audacious though. Most people know this is a lie but there’s no consequences so it is then taken as a display of power. The word I use for this is mendacity.