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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(110,941 posts) Tue Feb 20, 2024, 10:29 PM Feb 2024

House GOP duped by 'Russian disinformation propaganda,' Raskin says

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House GOP duped by 'Russian disinformation propaganda,' Raskin says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2024 OP

Except they were not duped. Duped means deceived, fooled, tricked, etc. RockRaven Feb 2024 #1

RockRaven

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1. Except they were not duped. Duped means deceived, fooled, tricked, etc.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Feb 20, 2024, 10:54 PM

Feb 2024

In order to be duped they would first have had to care about truth vs falsity. They did/do not. The true-false axis is a skew line to whatever they are up to; doesn't intersect at all.

They didn't give a shit whether or not it was true, just that it was a useful political cudgel, so giving them the credit/charity of having been deceived is unwarranted. They didn't act based on a belief of truthfulness, truthfulness had nothing to do with the matter.

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