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#mashagessen

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DrALJONES

"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.

Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.

Choosing to side with truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".

Trump's "Bully Lies" are from the autocrat's handbook.

thisamericanlife.org/855/thats

Reading from Surviving Autocracy:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

#ThisAmericanLife #Trump #TheBullyLie #USPol #Autocracy #MashaGessen .

This American Life · That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About - This American LifeUnnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?
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DrALJONES

"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.

Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.

Choosing to side with truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".

Trump's "Bully Lies" are from the autocrat's handbook.

thisamericanlife.org/855/thats

Reading from Surviving Autocracy:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

#ThisAmericanLife #Trump #TheBullyLie #USPol #Autocracy #MashaGessen .

This American Life · That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About - This American LifeUnnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?
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DrALJONES

"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.

Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.

Choosing to side with truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".

Trump's "Bully Lies" are from the autocrat's handbook.

thisamericanlife.org/855/thats

Reading from Surviving Autocracy:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

#ThisAmericanLife #Trump #TheBullyLie #USPol #Autocracy #MashaGessen .

This American Life · That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About - This American LifeUnnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?
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DrALJONES

Interview: Trump's "Bully Lie" is from the autocrat's handbook.

"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.

Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.

Choosing truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".

thisamericanlife.org/855/thats

Reading from Surviving Autocracy:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

#ThisAmericanLife #Trump #TheBullyLie #USPol #Autocracy #MashaGessen .

This American Life · That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About - This American LifeUnnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?
Public
DrALJONES

Interview: Trump's "Bully Lie" is from the autocrat's handbook.

"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.

Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.

Choosing truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".

thisamericanlife.org/855/thats

Reading from Surviving Autocracy:
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

#ThisAmericanLife #Trump #TheBullyLie #USPol #Autocracy #MashaGessen .

This American Life · That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About - This American LifeUnnecessary and outrageous lies that make you wonder — why lie about that in the first place?
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AK

#MashaGessen over Trump’s type of lying

mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez ff. 🧵

Cover of the book Surviving Autocracy, by Masha Gessen. It has a big red vertical line in the middle of the cover, doubtless symbolizing the effect of autocracy on our lives.
MathstodonJohn Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)Attached: 1 image Masha Gessen explains Trump's use of the "power lie" - the deliberately unbelievable lie, designed to show you can get away with lying: MG: "Lies can serve a number of functions. People lie to deflect, to avoid embarrassment or evade punishment by creating doubt, to escape confrontation or lighten the blow, to make themselves appear better, to get others to do or give something, and even to entertain. However unskilled a person may be at lying, they usually hope that the lie will be convincing. Executives want shareholders to think that they have devised a foolproof path to profits. Defendants want juries to believe that there is a chance that someone else committed the crime. People in relationships want their partners to think that they have never even considered cheating. Guests want the host to think that they like their fish overcooked. These lies can be annoying or amusing, but they are surmountable. They collapse in the face of facts. The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie or the bully lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show I can say what I want, when I want to. The power lie conjures a different reality that demands that you choose between your experience and the bully's demands. Are you going to insist that you're wet from the rain or give in and say that the sun is shining?" (1/n)
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Roger Gathmann

I'm all for , but I do believe that something is lost in the comparison of what is happening in to what happened in the Ghettos all across Europe in the 1940s. For a more recent model is Falluja - the Iraq city that the U.S. razed in Nov- December 2004. Fallujah infamously has a peculiarly high rate of deformed baby births. And surely this is connected to the destruction of that urban environment, combination of all those industrial chems plus the white phosphorus.

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