To be fair, in the speaker's mind, saying "I've said it before" means that there was a previous context where the perceived majority were aligned with that sentiment, and the speaker noticed and called it out. So it isn't really referencing the speaker's own speech, but the situation that was supposedly obvious.
So, just another example of cognitive and semantic dissonance.
To be fair, in the speaker's mind, saying "I've said it before" means that there was a previous context where the perceived majority were aligned with that sentiment, and the speaker noticed and called it out. So it isn't really referencing the speaker's own speech, but the situation that was supposedly obvious.
So, just another example of cognitive and semantic dissonance.