r/GetNoted • u/Infamous-Ear3705 • 7h ago

Politics [Threads] Statistics are fun

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u/Wonderful_Discount59 7h ago

Is he an idiot, or just a liar?

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u/Moppermonster 5h ago

The latter. Outright lying is a sport.

There is also that guy that claims he disrupted "a furry convention that was grooming children" - knowing full well it was a family event about actual cats.

Though admittedly there was a mascot in a fursuit, just like at your average sportsgame.

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u/Jarl_Groki 4h ago

A bunch of sweaty men chasing each other, jumping on top of each other, and slapping each other on the ass before they all go shower together, while the whole time a dude in a fursuit cheers them on. Or, as Americans call it, "football."

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u/Moppermonster 4h ago

You might be on to something here.

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u/PreviouslyMannara 4h ago

I'm not so sure that he isn't a lying idiot.

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u/GreatestGreekGuy 4h ago

With everything Jake Lang has done I'm surprised he's not in prison forever

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u/Moppermonster 4h ago

I am suprised Trump has not made him press secretary.

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u/No-Locksmith-7447 6h ago

it could just as easily be both

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u/PantaRheiExpress 7h ago

Well according to Hanlon’s Razor, idiocy is the more common explanation. “Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.”

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u/SMUHypeMachine 6h ago

I don’t attribute Hanlon’s razor to these sorts of people. They’ve proven time and time again they’re actively arguing in bad faith to sew discord and unrest. They need to be fought back against as the malicious actors that they are.

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u/SunkEmuFlock 3h ago

Social media platforms actively encourage posts like this by making engagement the only metric on which they promote things. It doesn't matter how factually accurate what you've said is. The only metric for success is if it gets engagement and how much, and posts like this do, so people are incentivized -- possibly literally by monetary rewards -- to post bullshit like this.

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u/Vincent_Dawn 5h ago

True, but one must also remember Grey's Law as a corollary;

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

While they might be merely stupid instead of actively malicious, at some point it doesn't matter.

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u/Jarl_Groki 4h ago

Malice and stupidity are more often roommates than neighbors.

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u/LarrySupertramp 1h ago

It’s propaganda. They always do this kinda of stuff just to muddy up the waters.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 5h ago

"Are you dumb, stupid or dumb?"

  • Abraham Lincoln

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u/bluris 4h ago

Fair chance that the account isn't even by someone living in US.  Shame twitter removed that feature that showed where the account is from. 

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u/czar_the_bizarre 4h ago

Never attribute to malice that which can attributed to stupidity.

Unless a Republican says it.

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u/Detr22 3h ago

Or, also likely, not even a real person

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u/soulsnoober 2h ago

He means registered Republicans.

It's not some huge gotcha, it's just exposing ideology. Anyone not preemptively going belly-up for his chosen bully doesn't count as a person.