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Iran begins mining Strait of Hormuz as Washington's tanker escort claim collapses - Türkiye Today
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For an administration that relies so heavily on propaganda lies, they are remarkably terrible at lying.
In any case, even if it were true and not a pathetic lie, Donald Trump would deserve no credit for slightly mitigating the problems Donald Trump caused when Donald Trump decided to start bombing Iran and slaughtering its civilians.
The trick is the people they’re lying to won’t look past the surface, so the lie does not have to be good.
I used to work for Anthroplogie (kinda bougie clothing store). We sold bound copies of On Bullshit, marketed largely because the title is funny and would look good on a coffee table. One day, while it was slow, I started reading it. In case folks don't know, it's actually a guy's doctoral thesis for his philosophy degree and aims to establish "bullshit" as a philosophical category. It's brilliant and completely changed the way I see things.
See, philosophy is battle between truth and falsehood. The author argues that bullshit is a greater threat to truth than a lie. This is because a lie needs the truth in order to be effective, whereas bullshit does not care one way or another. What we're seeing now is not the US government lying to people. It's the US government spouting bullshit. So yeah, they don't care if the lie is good. Because they're not lying. They're bullshitting.
EDIT: Apparently there are now two books with that title! The one of which I'm referring is by Harry Frankfurt (and is available online as a PDF if I'm not mistaken).
So there is apparently two different books titled that. Is it the Harry Frankfurt one?
Ah, yes. That one.
Some people just want to believe I guess. Like they could start pushing lies that trump cured cancer and there would be some people that believed it with no credible evidence even as they died from cancer. The media would spin words to make it not sound like complete fabrication but rather everyone being misdiagnosed, and then appease some moderates by stating cancers are all different issues really, so they don't really have cancer but a more acutely defined illness and at the end of the day 30% of Americans would answer polls that Trump cured cancer, 30% say he didn't cure cancer and 40% didn't know how they felt or if their head was infact in their ass at that very moment. Because yes, several of them look around and only see shit.
They have always been bad at lying. Every lie this administration tells is obviously transparent, if they were good enough to concoct a reasonable lie they would be intelligent enough to not get involved in a war with an oil producing country without first restocking their oil reserves. No one this administration has any brains at all.
the timeline in which the IGRC's public statement are more trustworthy than US officials...
At a certain point the propaganda stops making any sense on purpose. It's not designed to deceive. It's used to identify resistance.
1984 ass
"Flood the zone with shit" means it's more important to many lies fast than to tell any lies well.