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It's quite old but german philosopher Schopenhauer wrote about it in "The art of being right"

He talks about dirty tricks to win an argument regardless of the content

You can easily see that behavior in politics

Number 14 is “Claim Victory Despite Defeat” - coincidentally, there was a lot of “14/88” being thrown around in recent weeks in USA politics.

And a metric shit-ton more than that thrown around in 2020.