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Blind Frog Belly White5/27/2018 10:56:18 am PDT

re: #270 Anymouse šŸŒ¹

Call it an asterisk on my hyperbole. /s

Calling him a liar (amongst other things) kept spurring the investigation (and the press) to continue looking into his behaviour.

ā€œNot accurateā€ isnā€™t ā€œlie.ā€ Example: For quite some time Iā€™ve noted the population of my town is 128. The actual population (per a recent survey by the public library) is 132. I did not lie (the last census had our population at 128), I did not have up-to-date information.

What Trump does is lie. He lies about his golf scores. He lies about his inauguration size. He lied about the Central Park Five in an advert he paid for.

There are people out there who, either for pay or for free, take pictures from the internet that they know are not related to a particular event about which they wish to propagandize. They use them to create memes to push their particular ideology.

These people are liars. They are spreading falsehoods knowingly.

Other people see these memes, and because they share that ideology and believe the pictures are truth, they share them with all their friends.

They spread falsehoods unknowingly. Are these people liars?

Similarly, there are people out there who make up fake statistics to push their ideology.
For instance, thereā€™s a false statistic out there, that 81% of white murder victims were killed by a black murderer.

Thatā€™s a lie, and the person who created that ā€œstatisticā€ told a lie.

Trump retweeted an image containing that false statistic back in November of 2015.

Itā€™s a lie, and Trumpā€™s a liar as well as a bullshitter. But in retweeting that lie, did Trump himself lie? He probably believes it.