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Sun Shade ☀︎☂︎ @sunshade.blue

It’s some debate tactic that I can’t remember the name of, but the exhaustion is the point. It keeps you too tied up addressing bullshit to accomplish anything else

aug 24, 2025, 12:59 am • 11 0

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Aminaerin @aminaerin.bsky.social

Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” or in the original language Eine Lüge muss nur groß genug sein, man muss sie nur ständig wiederholen, dann wird sie geglaubt.

aug 24, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
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PRMcKelvey (nb indefinitely frozen egg arc; he/they)γ @prmckelvey.bsky.social

aug 24, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
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D I C K S Q U A D @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social

Gish-gallop is the term, I think

aug 24, 2025, 1:05 am • 12 0 • view
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R.J. Gerber Jr. @fathitler.com

That's also the firehose of lies theory. Lying is ALWAYS involved in the Gish gallop.

aug 24, 2025, 1:06 am • 8 1 • view
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Sun Shade ☀︎☂︎ @sunshade.blue

Yeah, that sounds right. Thanks!

aug 24, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view