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Longstanding myths and tropes - about facts as singular and incontestable, or Reason as a heroic exercise of masculinised aggression - are strategically remixed for this purpose. Broadly, such patterns emerge from a broader, pernicious fascination with certainty that haunts all that we do with data and AI: that the facts can be known, that human behaviour and social problems can be settled with objective finality, and that to be rational is to 'win' the debate and dominate others with my truth. Hence the popular slogan, often sold as T-shirts at Trump rallies: \"Fuck Your Feelings\". 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I argue that such amplification of bad information is often facilitated by fact signaling: the performative claim to being on the side of facts and Reason, which is then weaponised to denounce political opposition and build affective solidarity. Longstanding myths and tropes - about facts as singular and incontestable, or Reason as a heroic exercise of masculinised aggression - are strategically remixed for this purpose. Broadly, such patterns emerge from a broader, pernicious fascination with certainty that haunts all that we do with data and AI: that the facts can be known, that human behaviour and social problems can be settled with objective finality, and that to be rational is to 'win' the debate and dominate others with my truth. 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