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Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus by DSingularity on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:42AM (#31080877)
What a weak argument — but let’s humor this idiocy. Correct me if I’m wrong, but you are saying that smear campaigns are built exclusively on “solid truth”?

So you think it is impossible for anyone to organize a smear campaign based on lies and/or misrepresentation?

Seems naive to me.

I wonder, are you just trying to add to the “labor is anti-Semitic” smears that Zionists push online? You know the smears they push because they have no answer to the criticism that zionist Israelis are (a) stealing other peoples lands through settlements (b) supporting racist Apartheid laws and (c) supporting a criminal state which regularly oppresses and violates the universally-acknowledged rights of the native population.

Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus by JoBrad on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @07:55AM (#31081951)
I took their meaning to be that successful disinformation includes enough truth to provide some level of plausibility. That doesn’t mean that truth is at the core of the smear, or even that it’s a “whole” truth.

Epstein had many rich and powerful friends. Epstein was a pedophile. Epstein died within an inexcusable lapse in custody. These are all truths. Combine them together into the Q narrative, and now you have a massive conspiracy that is mostly wild speculation but contains some kernels of truth.