2026-07-25, A new post series

Starting now, I am going to start a blog series about, what I call, "bad faith techniques in political discourse". This is going to be very poltical, so be warned. But it's not about my personal views, but rather techniques, I'd also like to preface that, if I discuss a bad faith technqiue on one side, that doesn't mean I support the other side automatically (though, it is unlikely I'll actually support the side who is using bad faith).

What this series is about is analyzing bad faith techniques in discourse (primarily political), explaining how they work, and explaining how you can notice them and counter them.

I will reference real events and discourse, but like I said, I am not using this series to outright declare my stances on an issue or debate (although, you can probably figure out my stances based on who I oppose, and other things I've said over time), if I do, it's usually incidential or I felt like it's a good perspective on something.

Also, When I say "fascism", I mean "far-right reactionaries who have unfortnately became common (thanks, among other things, social media algorithms and russian disinfo!), and people who share similar beleifs." While I do believe that there are ideoloiges/governents/etc that resemble fascism but aren't considered fascism (i.e. stalinism), and that they should be called fascism, I'm not sure if doing so would be appropriate for this series, so I've left them out.

When I say "far-left", I don't mean "people who just want healthcare and equal rights", I mean "people who actually support terrorism, wars of agression made by non-western aligned countries, and other forms of violence. "

There's not much else to say, other than, welcome to the series!