To some extent, you can map a similar logic onto the recent controversy over Eileen Gu competing for China. Like, yes, it's true that other people have exploited heritage citizenship rules to compete for countries they don't have particularly strong connections to (usually just as an easy button to qualify for the Olympics without competing at the U.S. trials), but I stuggle to think of a prior example where they've done so as a credulous participant in such transparent propaganda operations.
I think wrt footnote 1, Trump really fried the brain of a lot of ppl - like he constantly lies so often and I think he’s punished for that more than ppl think but it also is true that he has a bit of superpower being that habitual constant liar (and entertaining)
I feel like Vance is the one who literally took the wrong lesson from it
I think what is going on there is that the thousandth lie will not damage you as much as the 10th, because most of the people who would not be willing to support a liar have already abandoned your ship. So I think he does pay an electoral penalty on account of being a liar, but that also means that when he goes and lies, nobody who still supports him is likely to abandon him over that since they’ve ignored that kind of behaviour in the past for years. This does not mean that he would not benefit if he was an honest man, although perhaps his specific base would find that quality unattractive, but he doesn’t get punished for additional lying as he has already paid all the penalty that it would have caused due to his past behaviour. It is even possible that if he stopped lying for an extended period of time, this will improve his reputation and get him more support, but going one or two days without flagrant lying, isn’t going to change his perception or people’s opinion on him.
And these days what I think about is, being a pathological liar has a high correlation with saying stuffs (some) ppl want to hear - and I think in this case, Trump stop lying prob implies he says what those ppl want to hear way less
To some extent, you can map a similar logic onto the recent controversy over Eileen Gu competing for China. Like, yes, it's true that other people have exploited heritage citizenship rules to compete for countries they don't have particularly strong connections to (usually just as an easy button to qualify for the Olympics without competing at the U.S. trials), but I stuggle to think of a prior example where they've done so as a credulous participant in such transparent propaganda operations.
I think wrt footnote 1, Trump really fried the brain of a lot of ppl - like he constantly lies so often and I think he’s punished for that more than ppl think but it also is true that he has a bit of superpower being that habitual constant liar (and entertaining)
I feel like Vance is the one who literally took the wrong lesson from it
I think what is going on there is that the thousandth lie will not damage you as much as the 10th, because most of the people who would not be willing to support a liar have already abandoned your ship. So I think he does pay an electoral penalty on account of being a liar, but that also means that when he goes and lies, nobody who still supports him is likely to abandon him over that since they’ve ignored that kind of behaviour in the past for years. This does not mean that he would not benefit if he was an honest man, although perhaps his specific base would find that quality unattractive, but he doesn’t get punished for additional lying as he has already paid all the penalty that it would have caused due to his past behaviour. It is even possible that if he stopped lying for an extended period of time, this will improve his reputation and get him more support, but going one or two days without flagrant lying, isn’t going to change his perception or people’s opinion on him.
This is so well said and I wholeheartedly agree!
And these days what I think about is, being a pathological liar has a high correlation with saying stuffs (some) ppl want to hear - and I think in this case, Trump stop lying prob implies he says what those ppl want to hear way less
Sad: I've read this article before.
Happy: Apparently I'm among the 10% who can claim to have been in on Infinite Scroll before it was cool.
Congrats on all the growth!