I've been working on a unified theory of Lou's lies, and I've come up with a few preliminary conclusions. The first significant observation I've made is that
Lou's lies are materially different when he's posting original tweets vs. when he's being a Reply Guy.
When observing Lou in the middle of a Twitter slapfight, someone familiar with his grift might be tempted to conclude that he simply asserts whatever he believes would be the best possible truth for him, regardless of the actual truth or falsity of the statement. This is the Donald Trump model of lying: Would it be best if he had the biggest inauguration crowd in history? Fine, then he had the biggest inauguration crowd in history. Would it be best if we had COVID-19 on the ropes and a vaccine is on the way? Fine, then we have COVID-19 on the ropes and a vaccine is on the way. He'll happily tell the truth if it benefits him, but if telling a lie would benefit him more, then that's what he'll do without giving it a second thought. This is a decent explanation for Lou's behavior, but it doesn't go far enough, and there's a subtlety to it that can be easy to miss at first.
Rather, when Lou is engaged in an argument,
he lies to give himself more intellectual or moral authority than his adversary. Fighting about Israel? Say "I think Israel is the most evil country in the world" and you just come off like an anti-Semitic piece of shit. But say "As a Jew, I think Israel is the most evil country in the world," and suddenly you're a brave iconoclast speaking truth to power. Take that, Twitter rando! Saying you had relatives who died in the Holocaust is even better; that one can be pulled out on almost any occasion. Claiming to
be Native American is also a remarkably versatile lie that will score you a lot of points in the oppression Olympics.
To understand how the process operates, let's take a look at
the first time we saw him claim his mother was dead. It started when some furry used the word "colored" and then apologized for it, and Lou got called out for being a dick about it:
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Someone else gently takes him to task, and he doubles down.
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Longtime Louwatchers can see that the amygdala hijack is already building. Increasingly pissed and unable to control his emotions, Lou ties Christianity to the slave trade, drawing a response from a different furry, whom Lou then calls dumb and racist.
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The other furry then delivers the finishing blow: he is, or claims to be, black.
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Lou has now lost his moral authority in this argument, and the situation has become a crisis. This all started because he got put on blast for airing his deep-seated grudge against Christianity by someone he doesn't even know. Embarrassed, he tries to defend himself, which as usual takes the form of lashing out at others. He might sense he's losing at this point, but he battles on... and then the enemy not only claims the moral high ground for himself, but chastises Lou for his privilege. He must be on the verge of tears at this point. In a blind rage, without thinking ahead, Lou takes back his authority by any means necessary:
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Defeated, exhausted, at an emotional low, Lou capped off the night by suicide baiting and then, presumably, collapsed into bed around 3 am local time.
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You will never see a mention of Lou's mother being dead in any tweets that he originates, because those are the ones that get seen by his few remaining orbiters, who know she's alive and well and tormenting him on the daily. The authority-seizing lies only show up in reply tweets that the orbiters will probably never see because they're not involved in those slapfights. The lies he tell his friends have to be more internally consistent than this.