Masha Gessen explains Trump's use of the "power lie" - the deliberately unbelievable lie, designed to show you can get away with lying:
MG: "Lies can serve a number of functions. People lie to deflect, to avoid embarrassment or evade punishment by creating […] https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114112649885387310
MG: "Lies can serve a number of functions. People lie to deflect, to avoid embarrassment or evade punishment by creating […] https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114112649885387310
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Other #Nazi , #Goebbels and #Hitler , were proponents of the #BigLie. Worked for them
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https://www.thisamericanlife.org/855/transcript
IG: "I have to say, since reading that passage in your book a few weeks ago, I feel like it's like you gave a name to something that I had known was there, but hadn't put a finger on what it was […]
This is what’s been going on there for centuries.
There’s even a word for ”he knows that they know he’s lying but he’s lying anyway” in Russian: Vranyo
#BullyLie