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I just remembered another because of your post: "Let's face it/let's be honest" used as magic words to transmute opinion into ironclad objective fact.
I think there's some value in an "I'll be honest," as a signal that one is being forthright despite a potential cost, with a corresponding appeal to the listener to hear the speaker out. But yeah, when it's an appeal to an imagined silent majority that shit is often not very good.