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n. He's not talking to the operator, right? Now you can say to yourself but the military general has to comply with an order from the commander-in-chief. So therefore it really is just Biden making the decision and other people just implementing it. Not in the real world. In the real world that general gets to decide, period. Does anybody disagree with that? The general gets to decide even though…
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All right, moving on. Is there a name for the psychological disorder where you see white supremacists everywhere? Because you know we had — what am I hearing? There's something bad happening around my house somewhere. Okay. So we had Trump Derangement Syndrome to describe people who were temporarily crazy about Trump. But now we're seeing like legitimate people who think they see white supremacy everywhere. And is there a name for that medical condition? And there is: apophenia. So A-P-O-P-H-E-N-I-A is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between seemingly unrelated things.
No, it's not specific to seeing white supremacy everywhere. But the examples you see are when people are putting together unrelated things. So they'll say yeah yeah if you look at any one thing, not a lot of white supremacists. In fact when the KKK had their big gathering they got what, a dozen people? So if you look at any one example it seems trivial. So you have to look at the whole tapestry. It's the connected, you know, largeness of it. It's not just the one example here or there. And that actually has a name: apophenia.
So for example, just I guess it was yesterday — was it? Who was it? Sheila Jackson who was just corrected on the fine people hoax by Representative Biggs. So Joel reported on this and I probably have that in my notes somewhere but forgot. Yeah so it was Representative Jackson Lee of Texas. And what's her real name? Jackson Lee is her Twitter handle anyway. She tried to use the Charlottesville fine people hoax at a House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday. Imagine bringing up the fine people hoax after it had been completely debunked at the Trump impeachment trial. But Representative Andy Biggs responded to it by playing the entire video to show that the whole thing was a hoax. So yeah, Representative Jackson Lee — getting the name correct finally — was completely just faced.
Somebody says it's Sheila. Oh it's Sheila Jackson Lee. That's the full name. Thank you. All right, fact check. It's Sh
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eila Jackson Lee anyway. She got fact-checked hard and good for Representative Biggs. So this should happen every time this hoax plays. Every single time somebody should just say stop and just play the hoax. Now the fine people hoax is one of the biggest parts of the tapestry that says the world is full of white supremacists of the United States. So apophenia is what it's called. My new first cho…
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