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.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I remember watching one of the Flash animated “truth” “documentaries” on flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon.

    It talked about missiles being used and similar stuff, I was 13-14 at the time and I showed my parents, they rightfully explained that this was just a random video that anyone could have made.

    They brought up the importance of using trusted sources, but also emphasized that they didn’t have the facts either.

    They told me to calm down and wait for verifiable facts to surface.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah the Pentagon impact site never made any sense and the government was never open about the evidence. I was never convinced the official explanation made sense based upon the damage to the building.

      The US government could easily clear it up by realizing the footage, but they won’t.

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        3 hours ago

        It makes perfect sense to me, what issues do you see with it?

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          2 hours ago

          I don’t really care to talk about this unless you have researched this thoroughly because the damage to the building was always inconsistent with the official narrative including the wreckage that was extracted from the building.

          This makes me skeptical and the government has never released the footage when they definitely have lots of video evidence that can demonstrate exactly what happened.

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            2 hours ago

            Ok, if you are going to play this game…

            1. Please list your qualifications for doing research on the subject.
            2. Please let me know what research you have done, understand that I expect more than just facebooking and googling.

            This will let me know both were you stand and what level of discussion you expect.

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              2 hours ago

              Hard pass. I can already tell what you are up to. Acting like an asshole isn’t the move you think it is.