Political Memes

This is gonna sound gross and I hate thinking about stuff like this but…

The truth of it, or even plausibility of it, is irrelevant. Whether the people claiming it believe it, is irrelevant. What’s important is that it’s compelling and dominates the discourse. It prevents the discussions from being “Murder is bad VS had it coming”. Instead of getting to use the event to justify crackdowns on opposition or painting them selves as victims, they have to waste time denying allegations that they staged it.

Even if it’s not true, even if it’s absurd and conspiratorial, it’s still the right thing to say because it doesn’t let trump’s camp steer the conversation to benefit themselves. I hate it, it’s gross, but, the public conversation shifting in his favor is worse than me feeling a bit uncomfortable about a bad faith argument. I want conversations and discourse to be honest, reflective, and in good faith, but… both sides of a debate need to do that for such a discussion to exist.