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[–] nolannice@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How to say whatever you want and not get in trouble:

  1. Lie to the public to rile up your base
  2. Conservative news reports on your lie
  3. Wait until you're in court to say 'lol jk'
  4. Conservative news conviently doesn't find retracting your statement to be newsworthy
  5. Your base still believes your lie
[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's important to note that the #1 rule of Misinformation is: Be First.

The information doesn't have to be accurate, verifiable, etc., it just has to Be First and it'll get repeated often enough that people will start to believe that it's true. "Oh Shirley, how can 'Biden Eats Babies' be wrong when I've already seen 18 shared posts on my wall this morning [Meta/Facebook] talking about it. I've received 3 e-mails from other family members talking about it. Why I even saw 4 articles on my favorite websites last night and this morning reporting on it. They can't all be wrong!"

Then when the truth tries to assert itself there's so much noise that it gets drowned out.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

[–] dub@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's pretty crazy. Say what you want about the Democrats, and you can say a lot, but at least they hold each other accountable to some extent. This is brazen

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

And he wants to argue that the defamatory statements he's admitting to are protected speech. ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/26/politics/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers/index.html

If that's the case I guess it's OK for me to say he's not allowed to visit farms anymore because he got caught sexually molesting livestock.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how much Ghouliani was sweating as they were raking him over the coals. Such a horrible shity peraon.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And was he sweating hair dye?

[–] style99@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That thumping sound you hear is Trump getting thrown under the bus.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hopefully that bus does forward-reverse moves for the next 17 months and wipes him from the election.

[–] norb@lem.norbz.org 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure he'll be on the ticket for president as either a convicted felon (possibly running from jail) or actively on trial for federal offenses. There's nothing in our laws or constitution to prevent such a thing. The old assumption that the "party of law and order" voters would toss a criminal to the curb are pretty much out the window as well.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Sue this motherfucker to oblivion

[–] root@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago