[[Wondermark presents: HOW TO LIE]]
[[Step 1: boldly assert a non-fact, implying it is new information.]]
Did you hear? Zebras are a hoax!
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It's like crop circles! People just <> and call them zebras!
[[Step 2: Invent a mountain of evidence.]]
Harvard just published a huge study, surveying every zoo in the west <> the so-called "wild" zebras in africa.
Every zebra they looked at was just a weird horse with paint on it.
[[Step 3: Sympathize with incredulity to desarm it.]]
It blew my mind too! Apparantly it's this tourist trap thing that's gone on for centuries, like a snipe hunt.
There's some unspoken rule among zookeepers that you just keep the horses painted. Nobody wants to be the whistleblower.
[[Step 4: Frame the truth as absurd.]]
In a way, though it makes sense. What's more likely, that every zebra individually develops a perfect stripe pattern totally naturally?
Or that some dude just paints it on? Occam's razor, you know?
[[Step 5: If proven wrong, refocus the discussion onto intangibles.]]
<> everybody knows about <> indicates that that is untrue.
You <> let me be right ever! Always have to nitpick <> I say. When did you get so <>?
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{{alt-text: Identifying this technique in politics is an exercise left to the reader.}}
Identifying this technique in politics is an exercise left to the reader.
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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