Harry TurtledoveMar 7, 2023

On the Muskbird site, my bio includes the phrase "I tell lies for a living": a mild joke for a writer.

When I drag Trumpnazis there, over and over again they seize on that phrase as if it proves something about my calling out their bullshit. It's as if they have no idea what novelists do. These people are genuinely and aggressively stupid. That makes them more dangerous, not less, of course.

Show threadCharlie StrossMar 7, 2023
@hntdove I'm convinced that a large proportion of our fellow hominids fundamentally don't understand the concept of fiction, on any level. If they did, they'd be less susceptible to authoritarian grifters. (An inability to recognize fiction is symptomatic of a broken or never-installed bullshit detector.)
Jeff FurlingtonMar 7, 2023
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@cstross @hntdove You can tell when they try to review fiction. You do not want to be letting Ben Shapiro tell you what movies to like.
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Show threadsaul b   🎡Mar 7, 2023
@smitten @cstross @hntdove omg, listening to a conservative talk about fiction is MADDENING. Just such deeply incurious people.
Show threadDCMar 8, 2023
@smitten @cstross @hntdove His comments about Glass Onion revealed a staggering ignorance of what detective/mystery fiction is and how it works.