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Grifters have worked out that "I'm just a fearless truth-teller willing to propose the necessary but politically incorrect solution," is a magic formula whereby if you're offensive enough the conversation focuses on whether you should have said it, and misses how your ideas are dumb as hell.

26/2/26, 2:32 pm45 reposts212 likes

Dmitry Grozoubinski

@explaintrade.com

26 Feb

Many politically incorrect opinions are also literally incorrect. Vile and wrong can and do frequently coexist.

krajewskib.bsky.social

@krajewskib.bsky.social

26 Feb

Senator John Iselin in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒: "There are exactly 57 card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the Department of Defense at this time!" The idea is to get the press to focus on the number rather than the substance of the general claim.

Arthur

@arthur.qeng-ho.org

26 Feb

Based on the real Senator McCarthy's claims that wrecked many people's lives.

Repair Shop

@clockworkshaun.bsky.social

26 Feb

And you can grift donations to do this from foreign soil whilst citing 'threats to life' as the reason to prefer a warmer climate.

Henry Gordon Jagoff

@henrygordonjagoff.bsky.social

26 Feb

Well said!