For those who aren’t familiar with the term, it means believing something that probably shouldn’t be believed, or being influenced to believe something that’s not necessarily in your best interests.

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    2 days ago

    I thought the Mueller report was going to be a big bombshell and end a bunch of shit but it did almost less than nothing.

    I thought “loose change” had more merit than it did when it came out. still sus on wtc7.

    i thought 'What the bleed do we know" had more merit when I first saw it.

    so there, I admit being human and getting swept up in confirmation bias, etc.

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      11 hours ago

      Me too. I really thought that one day my dad would say “You were right. I’m sorry.” There is nothing that can change their minds, and I don’t know what the solution is.

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      2 days ago

      The Mueller Report was hamstrung at release by William Barr’s summary that effectively contradicts the contents of the report.

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      If it makes you feel better, political bombshells don’t work anymore because nothing will ever phase the Republican voters enough to turn against their own politicians. Nothing, ever.

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        they had fox, newsmaxs, OAN, russian backed grifters to astroturf with propaganda to, hypernormalize it. its very effective with conservatives, because they are terminally drama/emotionally stunted driven people.

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        what can I say, it took me a second watch for bs alarms to trigger. I was familiar with the double slit experiment but their framing of it was …unique.