https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spenc...t-hunters-laptop-was-russian-disinfo-n2606508 this idea that we need govt to manage what is true for us is dangerous.
i have often discussed the rhetorical strategies used these days. one is the constant deflections to accusations of hypocrisy, typically in the format : "if you are about X now, why didnt you care about X when Y did it! HYPOCRITE" remember, the issue is never who is a hypocrite. the issue is the issue. jen psaki employed this technique with regard to criticism of the ministry of truth: https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/biden-disinfo-czar-nina-jankowicz-ripped-over-tiktok/ "“For anyone who’s critical of it, I didn’t hear them being critical of the work under the former president,” Psaki said." well to be fair, jen, i was opposed to trump threatening, for example, action against social media. but who the fuck cares what i think! thats not the issue! lets say i am a terrible hypocrite, so what! we are not trying to uncover flaws in people personally, we are trying to analyze policy! this is a deflection and its very very common today when the only goal is to call the other guy a racist hypocrite. i am amazed that the ministry of truth exists. surely we are not so afraid of information that we need a govt clearinghouse to save us? this is another time to unearth the mencken quote: " The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary" we have to stop paying the govt to control us and telling us what to think.
the woman who poorly judged the biden laptop to be russian disinfo is the person now given this exact task, determining what is disinfo. find the person that is a failure at X, then make them the czar of X, when X is a thing the govt should not even be doing.
