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   cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:42:10 JST cjd
   The bottomwit lives by his instincts passed down from thousands of generations & serve him pretty well.
   
   The midwit has been "educated" not to trust those instincts & instead trusts people.
   
   The topwit knows that people are unreliable & reasons things out for himself.
   
   In an information warfare environment, topwits thrive, bottomwits survive, and midwits get wiped out.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:42:08 JST cjd

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     • Pawlicker
     It's not just that people *lie*, people make mistakes, they are overconfident, they repeat someone else's lies.
     
     Trust The Experts is a really sure way to eventually get wiped out.
     
     And right now we're living through what can only be described as persistent information warfare. Forget about mis/dis/mal-information, the real misinformation attack is when the attacker gets the censorship team to censor the truth so that their attack message is totally uncontested.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 07:42:09 JST Pawlicker

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     @cjd I've had to learn the hard way not to trust people and I'm better off as a result
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 22:54:00 JST FourOh-LLC

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     The Wise learns more from the Fool than the Fool learns from the Wise. I was always fascinated by what a devastatingly consequential proverb this is...
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 23:00:07 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Morghur the Sealgave
     • Pawlicker
     @jeff @PurpCat @cjd @Morghur someone pointed out to me years ago that there are a lot of russia experts in washington that don't even speak russian. some portion of the expert class only exist to make decisions by the powerful look legitimate, but actual experts are costly and risky (they might disagree with you). it is frustrating because there are real social scientists and political scientists but I think they work behind the scenes and the ones you see prominently in the media or on twitter are just the puppet ones
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     autism :verified: (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 23:00:08 JST autism :verified:

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     • Pawlicker
     @cjd @PurpCat @Morghur the experts get paid by the powers that be to be pigeonholed as a profession. when you are the expert on russian disinfo everyone looks like russian disinfo to some degree, it's intellectual colorblindness, much easier to hide in plain sight with that kind of world.
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 23:00:09 JST cjd

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     There's so much potential payoff from getting The Scientific Community to agree on something that is in fact completely retarded, that there is an incredible amount of information-warfare pressure being applied to doing just that. After the fact, they look like the dumbest people on earth, but the reality is they're getting poached.
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     Morghur the Sealgave (morghur@seal.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 23:00:10 JST Morghur the Sealgave

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     In current year, being mistrustful is extremely healthy and not jumping to conclusions helps save a lot of heachaches.
     
     If anything, these years show that experts are experts on nothing