Ironically the question of "what else are they lying about?" is exactly what sent me down my red pill path years ago. The thing that confuses me though is that I honestly thought I made a breakthrough with one of them on covid, only for him to backpedal and immediately return to the media narrative days later.

I spent weeks trying to convince him that the covid death numbers were inflated and used to fearmonger. I tried a combination of the socratic method and linking data, and one of the links I sent seemed to get through and upset him. I thought, "finally he's getting it." But not even three days later, he's back to being deathly afraid of covid death tolls as if I didn't just show him the lies. He's the type who's incapable of ever admitting being wrong about anything, and I have no idea how to get past his ego. I figured being his friend would at least motivate him to honestly consider my perspective, but he's so quick to pull out the conspiracy theory card.

It's like they constantly swing between the precipice of the red pill and the leftist social media bubble. One of my other friends even voted for Trump, but then immediately bought into that "red mirage" bullshit they were pushing and is now off the train. It confuses me to no end. The only other friend I managed to wake up tells me they're probably in denial.

(P.S.: I'm still pondering the Sandy Hook thing myself. Definitely something off about that whole situation)