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Feb 7, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

A deer is a horse.

Vaccines are safe, effective, and the only way out of this pandemic.

Lia Thomas is a woman.

2+2=5.

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Anyone who says differently is dark maga and an enemy to the republic

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May 3, 2021Liked by Mathew Crawford

Good start for your InfoWa...... Information Wars series!

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Thanks.

I definitely never want to sell any of this out into tabloid material. I wanted to reclaim the concept, too.

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I'd seriously like to meet the man who can ride a f---ing deer for more than six seconds. Or woman. Or precocious child.

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There may have been some opium involved.

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The Emperor has no Clothes.

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Cool story. I asked my Chinese friend and she said it is a very common idiom in China, to look at a deer and call it a horse. But what idiom do we have like that in English? I can only think of the opposite, calling spade a spade. We have the story, The Emperor's New Clothes. I wonder if that is based on this Chinese tale.

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We may be beyond the forming of an idiom that implies conspiracy, which would necessarily have to be theoretical. Sigh.

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We have the idiom of “piss on my leg and tell me that it’s raining”, a partial match

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Thanks! I think i may have heard that once.

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