Your Alt-Reality Is Boring......A plea for more interesting alt-realities than the Moon Landing Hoax, Flat Earth, and No Virus.
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Yup. No amount of information will persuade them to believe something that doesn't conform to their pre-held biases, and they will believe anything that confirms those same biases.
Personal example I experienced earlier today:
Had a clip of the White House's footage of some meeting Trump had after a mass shooting, where he was spit balling ideas and said, flat out, that he would support red flag laws. "First take the guns, then do due process".
And the person I was talking to absolutely refused to believe he said that when she saw the video herself. "Deep Fake", of course. Nevermind all the audio recording and other videos being shot showing the same thing. And dozens of other people who were there.
But she 100% believed that Tom Hanks had been arrested on April 1, 2020 because she read a tweet from some random Twitter account that said he was.
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