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That's why the exploit of a social media savvy government is to overflow the system with so much slop (literally and figuratively) the law can never catch up. Y
by avaer 20d ago
That's why the exploit of a social media savvy government is to overflow the system with so much slop (literally and figuratively) the law can never catch up. Your bug is their feature.
- inigyou 20d agoThey call it "flooding the zone", it's an explicit strategy
- theshrike79 20d agoAnd Gish Gallop. Basically lie so much and so fast that the fact checkers can't keep up. It also helps when their voter base literally couldn't care less about "truth".
- inigyou 19d agoGish gallop is a name that came from an opponent of the strategy, and refers to a localized usage of the strategy within one argument. Flooding the zone is what the people who are doing the strategy call it when they do it globally.