"dead cat strategy" or "deadcatting" is when a shocking statement is made to divert media attention away from problems or failures in other areas.

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[–] 91 points 1 month ago (1 child)
  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    TIL that Trump is a bunch of dead cats in a trench coat.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They’re eating the cats and dogs strategy

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    also the firehose of false hood. and its mostly to distract from the epstein and the BBB.

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    better late to catch on than never

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Makes sense. trump always said "you can grab them by the cat". /s

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Kojima predicted everything in mgs2, now the problem is: did he predict everything in mgs4 too?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    "They're eating the dogs! "

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    at what point will we see zombie cats?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    It should be called the "cat eating" strategy because it's the most ridiculous, unbelievable and unimaginative shit anyone can make up.

    They can't even lie correctly, the feckin' losers. What a liberty!

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Can the mods of this sub make more firm principles on posting rules? This title has nothing to do with the definition it's describing. Instead, it's an example of it. I'd consider opting out of here if nothing changes. Posts like this would've been removed on reddit. It's a place for what people learned, not for what people feel about what they learned. It's impossible to remove subjectivity but this post imo crossed the line.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Rule 6 - one could post a [meta] post to comment on this sub and it's rules instead of distracting from the parent post (potential rule 8 vio if the mods were really particular). I would encourage you to [meta] post and propose the new rule or amended rule you think would address the problem you have with this sub; don't just complain, try to make the community in better. (And since you're new to Lemmy, please be aware "well, reddit did it this way" does not carry water with a lot of folks here. I would encourage you to include more independent justification for your proposed rule).

    Or one could try to argue I violated rule 5 for "promoting an agenda" but since the Wikipedia article specifically mentions Trump as an example of the technique, I think any such argument would be a stretch. Again, up to how particular our mods are.

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