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The US Treasury Claimed Doge Technologist Didn't Have 'Write Access' When He Did
- calvinmorrison 2y agoThe USA also Claimed there were weapons of mass destruction and killed over 1 million Iraqis.
- bananapub 2y agoit seems underappreciated just how much permanent cultural destruction has been caused by this shift by Republicans to just lying about almost everything almost all the time. sure, politicians have lied about stuff in the past, and massaged the truth and spun, but Trump & Co just get up every day and tell you the sky is made of bananas and water is naturally fluorescent pink. it would be bad enough untangling that, but something like a third of US adults have just completely checked out of consensus reality and either believe all that or just think the banana-ness of the sky and natural luminosity of water is some sort of debatable value that's been hitherto suppressed by woke muslims transes or something.
- wordofx 2y agoYou can replace republicans with democrats and it’s just as valid if not more.
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- greenavocado 2y ago> The thing that paints a clear picture to me is, the Republican party are always on the assault. They have endless bad things to say, blame to cast. They are out for destruction. Are you suggesting this effect is somehow not applicable to other political movements?
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoOh, no, not at all: any political movement built around negativity & anger is probably highly dangerous and bad and should be thrown out! We absolutely need to be struggling again the things that dog us & hurt us too. But when that dominates your party, when you have more blame than concrete useful things you are offering, that's usually an incredibly fantastically bad sign. The virality of negativity only further heightens the crisis of concern here.
- AnimalMuppet 2y ago> If the Democrats are lying to defend trans people or immigrants or school lunch or head start... is that really a bad lie? Yes. Yes it is. If you want to defend things that are worth defending, use the truth to do it, not lies. If you use lies, then all the other side has to do to destroy your defense is to expose the lie.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoThe thing that paints a clear picture to me is, the Republican party are always on the assault. They have endless bad things to say, blame to cast. They are out for destruction. If the Democrats are lying to defend trans people or immigrants or school lunch or head start... is that really a bad lie? I think that's extremely telling, about what's a lie and what isnt. But let's just say, both parties are liars: there's still only one party trying to destroy opportunity & excellent, trying to cut the throat of the USA.
- akimbostrawman 2y agoPosts like this make me wonder how far the overton window has to shift until someone notices they have left the continent. Maybe take a step back and look around to notice that the destruction you describe after less than a month has been happening to the other side for almost two decades. But the other side is evil and wrong so why even bother.
- garyrob 2y agoI understand that people on the right believe that to be true. But, in fact, things like anthropogenic climate change that the right refused to acknowledge, and believed that the media was lying to them about, are true. It matters what is actually true. The fact that the two sides may have felt the same isn't relevant. The truth is that it wasn't the same. Another factor: Republicans think it's authoritarianism when the mainstream media doesn't tell them the things they prefer to believe. But here's another clue for them: It's only authoritarianism when the government uses its monopoly on power to force the media to say what they say. It's not authoritarianism when the media says something because they think it's true, or even when they say it because they are trying to please an audience that mostly thinks it's true.
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- garyrob 2y agoSorry, but I reflect a LOT. I'm well aware of the media's limitations the limitations of scientists and that, for example, the CDC is wrong at times. But the situation being discussed is not comparable. I understand however, that for someone on the right who believes Trump's constant lies, a way must be found for understanding how those on the left can disagree.
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- belter 2y ago100% lying with questions given to journalist: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-06/bessent-projects-normalcy-while-completely-aligned-with-musk?srnd=homepage-europe&embedded-checkout=true https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-06/bessent-p... You can always count on Bloomberg to do the dirty work...
- belter 2y agohttps://youtu.be/a5bWFIVyLyo https://youtu.be/a5bWFIVyLyo https://youtu.be/w-BdI2WQPLY https://youtu.be/w-BdI2WQPLY
- blurbleblurble 2y ago18 U.S.C. § 1001 is a federal law that makes it illegal to knowingly lie or make false statements. This includes falsifying documents, concealing information, or making fraudulent statements.