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Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• iloveDigit@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who are the people who pretend to know nothing about weapons but do?

  Mainly donors and lobbyists, I guess.

  It’s an oversimplification - it’s more like they confuse you about who’s making the decisions, than that they pretend to know less than they do. But when they formulate arguments based on lies, that’s also pretending to know less than they do, so the oversimplification isn’t actually wrong.

  Complex thing being described simply: decisions are made by people who know how guns work, but a public figure announcing a decision might embarrass himself talking about guns. He might know how guns work, and just be pretending not to. But if he actually knows how guns work, the people sending him out to do the public speaking are the ones “pretending not to know more” - or rather, making you think “wow this guy is an idiot” instead of “wow these decisions are being made by lying donors and lobbyists.”

  Simpler thing that makes it kinda correct: even if the guy doing the public speaking genuinely doesn’t know how guns work, it’s still dishonest of his handlers to send him up, and in the process, they still make false arguments that omit their knowledge on the topic, meeting the exact original statement.

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