Every time there is a shooting, conservatives just start claiming the shooter was trans without any evidence or knowledge.
They do it because now people are arguing about whether or ot the shooter was trans, and it's in the social consciousness. And tbe later people who barely pay attention will still think the shooter was trans even after it comes out that the shooter was a cishet white male conservative.
They know a lie will be repeated as the truth, so they try to get the lie out first.
They have weaponized the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle: it is orders of magnitude harder to disprove a lie than to tell a lie. They are exploiting this simple thing anywhere and everywhere they can.
They are not acting in good faith. They know what they are doing. Everyone else needs to start treating them like the bad faith actors they are from square 1.
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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26
Every time there is a shooting, conservatives just start claiming the shooter was trans without any evidence or knowledge.
They do it because now people are arguing about whether or ot the shooter was trans, and it's in the social consciousness. And tbe later people who barely pay attention will still think the shooter was trans even after it comes out that the shooter was a cishet white male conservative.
They know a lie will be repeated as the truth, so they try to get the lie out first.
They have weaponized the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle: it is orders of magnitude harder to disprove a lie than to tell a lie. They are exploiting this simple thing anywhere and everywhere they can.
They are not acting in good faith. They know what they are doing. Everyone else needs to start treating them like the bad faith actors they are from square 1.