Translating Pretzel Land

Let's troll Pretzel Land to unravel some scripts that are obfuscating realities for lies, lies, lies.

Shall we?

Translating Pretzel Land

In Pretzel Land there are some terms that are widely bantered. 

These terms assume realities that generate unwarranted conclusions that ultimately fuel scripts that obfuscate realities, if not also truths, for fictions, lies, masques, etc., verily fabrications.

Insofar as these fabrications further agendas to advance interests, these fabrications remain largely unchallenged and predominately believed, despite indiscriminate reliance on assumptions, conclusions, scripts, and realities that may be

in part if not in whole

lies, lies, lies.

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Caveat

I am not fluent in aggressively asinine.

Nor am I fluent in contemptuous duplicity.

Insofar as dialects of aggressively asinine and contemptuous duplicity dominate Pretzel Land... I recognize that there are limitations to the following endeavor...

Nevertheless... to the extent that that which is lost in translation is offset by the utility of that which is gained... here goes...

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undecideds ~

True undecideds ostensibly describe undecideds.

But even among true undecideds, there are decideds.

Including decideds who have decided none of the above.

Needless to say.

Such undecideds are decidedly not undecided.

Moreover.

Among undecideds are untrue undecideds.

Who, for lack of a better word, are deceivers who demonstrate swaying hither and thither.

As if, by virtue of pretensions of undecidedness, such sways legitimize deceptions for the purposes of demonstrating conversions from undecidedness to decidedness.

(Or, more banally, for the purposes of dramatic effect or for the purposes of concocted import of that which is inherently unimportant, etc.)

Notwithstanding that all registered voters are inherently undecideds

Until decisions are officially decided.

Because decisions affirmed no more determine decisions decided, than any of us can predict the future with conclusive certainty.

Because anything can happen between affirming and decided.

Including, changing minds and gasp

changing ballots.

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polls ~

While there are hundreds of millions of citizens in Pretzel Land

Polls reflect infinitesimally small representations of citizens

As well as infinitesimally small representations of registered voters.

(A number smaller than citizenship per ruthless disenfranchisement.)

Which is to say.

Any assumed mandate of citizens cannot be assumed

Simply per voters.

Because voters are a fraction of citizens.

Moreover.

To the extent that there are untrue undecideds and deceptive undecideds and undecideds that are decided and undecideds that are fickle (a condition that is wholeheartedly fine, despite condemnation otherwise), etc.

Poll respondents are also correspondingly diverse.

Such that polls that polarize responses, for example

That arbitrarily limit respondents to two responses, for example

Achieve polarization

Regardless of whether or not polarization exists.

Often.

Polls that polarize responses that arbitrarily limit respondents to two responses, polarize respondents in order to fabricate scripts.

As if, by virtue of ostensibly 'scientific processes' of 'data collection', such scripts are laundered from illegitimate fabrications to legitimate 'facts' with respect to 'extant polarization'.

Meanwhile.

Voting as a private and solemn affair has devolved into public spectacles vigorously endorsed by stakeholders and surrogates and pop up soap box hucksters from here to Oz.

Likewise.

From polls to focus groups to analyses bloated by the thin air of desperation, the attempt to divine the future, though unrestrained in fervor, remains as futile as ever. 

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sides ~

Ostensibly sides are sides.

However sides are no more certainly sides than undecideds are certainly undecideds

Without qualifications.

Verily.

Among sides are unsides

That are decidedly not sides

Regardless of side.

That is.

Among every side is any side but and any option but and if these are the only options and if I must choose one side and if my only choice is death or one side and since meteor isn't an option, etc.

Indeed.

That spectacles abound

That polarize us

There are assumptions disseminated by many of us

As to sides being sides or unsides that fuel foundations of sand upon which houses of cards are scaffolded by conclusions of mandates and buttressed by scripts of realities.

As if assumptions of sides being sides or unsides

Are always true and sacrosanct and indisputably inviolable

By virtue of nothing more our say so that assumptions are 'facts'

Whereupon such 'facts' validate agendas that advance interests

That are hardly likely to advance interests of citizens

Much less the truth

So much as the interests of sides playing fast and loose with mutuus et aequum for all.

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Needless to say, there are far more terms that proliferate the landscape of Pretzel Land than above...

Likewise, there are far more realities that are assumed that generate unwarranted conclusions that ultimately fuel scripts that obfuscate realities, if not also truths, for fictions, lies, masques, etc., verily fabrications that further agendas to advance interests that remain largely unchallenged and predominately believed, despite blatant reliance on assumptions, conclusions, scripts, and realities that may be, in part if not in whole, lies, lies, lies, than above...

Nevertheless, to the extent that the terms above illuminate that scripts can be manipulated and furthermore are fabricated to further agendas to advance interests...

Here's to unraveling obfuscation and exposing transparency in Pretzel Land and beyond.

Addendum

Aside from terms widely bantered, Pretzel Land is also rife with strategems and tactics that obfuscate realities as certainly as terms

Including mischaracterizations and demonizations

By which characterizations of sides, for example

For ballots, for example

Are reduced to caricatures that legitimize distortions for the purposes of mischaracterization and demonization

As well as for the purposes of bloating the import of that which is inherently unimportant, and for the purposes of convenience, generalizations to enhance the dramatic appeal of that which is inherently banal, etc.

That are as utilized by one side as by all sides

For effect beyond the obvious.

Including.

Assumptions of mischaracterizations and demonizations propagated by one side

Disseminated by other sides

In order to legitimize conversions of sides

Without which conversions are less compellingly zealous sans emotional leverage.

In other words.

Defenses of distortions, including mischaracterizations and demonizations, indefensibly rely on fanatical justifications of winning at all costs.

Even at the cost of truths.

Such that honesty and integrity are expendable when sides play to win by repudiating that which is fundamental to fair and just competitions:

Honesty and Integrity.

Needless to say.

The use of emotional leverage to sway decisions hither and thither

Invariably circumvent categorical recognition of truths in plain sight

Often with relentless pressure to succumb to the illogic of extremism and the intolerance of absolutism

In order for one side to win over other sides.

Even as competing so

Elevates dishonor for the sake of sides at the expense of mutuus et aequum for all.

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Note to Addendum

There is as much to be gained by assuming that sides mischaracterize and demonize others

Even if such assumption is nothing more than assumption.

Likewise.

There is as much to be gained by concluding that such mischaracterization and demonization means realities and actualities

Even if such conclusion is in part or in whole unwarranted.

Moreover.

There is as much to be gained by disseminating scripts that mischaracterize and demonize sides as mischaracterizing and demonizing

Even if such scripts blatantly further agendas that advance interests of sides.

Such that.

Insofar as all sides are profoundly incented to distort realities in order to further agendas that advance interests of sides

Insofar as no tangible reality meaningfully deprives sides of the wherewithal to flagrantly distort realities in order to further agendas that advance interests of sides

It is unlikely that any side

Legitimately embodies honesty and integrity

Much less to a degree deserving of honor

Including honors high and especially honors noble

Of Pretzel Land and beyond.

- M.