My dad is 73 and trusts the mainstream news. I can’t show him anything because “I don’t want to see anything you found in the internet.” Even if it comes from government websites. That traffic stop where the MS-13 “Maryland Dad” was trafficking people was “AI” - it’s pointless to argue anything.
I have family members who get rabidly furious if I do anything like this. The News is right and everybody else is crazy and stupid.
End of discussion, because after that they tell you to fuck off and want nothing to do with you.
Family members with whom I spent a lifetime.
I keep going back to what Q said: The choice to know will be yours. Well, they've chosen against knowing. All we can do is try to be there if and when the truth finally does pour out to an extent that even the mainstream news can't make it stop.
It is hard to break the spell. Even those of us who "knew" the media and left were bad had no idea just how bad until the events of Q and Covid revealed the extent of what was going on behind the curtain. Even after that, it continues to get worse as DOGE has revealed the whole USAID and related schemes.
I don't mean educate them about what's going on, I mean educate them about cognitive dissonance and basic psychology using subjects other than politics so they become more aware of when it's happening to them. It definitely worked for me, I'm much more able to change my mind about something when presented with new info instead of rejecting it because I have a self awareness of my own psychology I haven't had in the past until it was explained to me.
It's so bizarre and counterintuitive - but it's also true. It's that "kill the messenger" mentality. People will do anything to avoid admitting they were fooled.
Hey, I was fooled, too, for a long time. I really thought that people like the Obamas and the Clintons and all the rest did at least have the best interests of the USA at heart - it never occurred to me that they didn't -
Wake up and admit their whole life is a lie, or stay asleep and keep drinking the sickly-sweet poison thats intended to kill them?
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."
Amen.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
We don't call them retards for nothing....
Spiritual retardation is nothing to sneeze at.
For some reason, they think MSM tells nothing but the truth, and everyone else must be lying to them.
My dad is 73 and trusts the mainstream news. I can’t show him anything because “I don’t want to see anything you found in the internet.” Even if it comes from government websites. That traffic stop where the MS-13 “Maryland Dad” was trafficking people was “AI” - it’s pointless to argue anything.
I have family members who get rabidly furious if I do anything like this. The News is right and everybody else is crazy and stupid.
End of discussion, because after that they tell you to fuck off and want nothing to do with you.
Family members with whom I spent a lifetime.
I keep going back to what Q said: The choice to know will be yours. Well, they've chosen against knowing. All we can do is try to be there if and when the truth finally does pour out to an extent that even the mainstream news can't make it stop.
It is hard to break the spell. Even those of us who "knew" the media and left were bad had no idea just how bad until the events of Q and Covid revealed the extent of what was going on behind the curtain. Even after that, it continues to get worse as DOGE has revealed the whole USAID and related schemes.
You can lead an ass to water but ya can't make em drink
It’s easier to fool someone than convince them they have been fooled.
Cognitive dissonance. Educate people about it and make them self aware of it and maybe then they'll be able to change their mind.
It’s difficult to do when they don’t trust anything you “find” on the internet.
I don't mean educate them about what's going on, I mean educate them about cognitive dissonance and basic psychology using subjects other than politics so they become more aware of when it's happening to them. It definitely worked for me, I'm much more able to change my mind about something when presented with new info instead of rejecting it because I have a self awareness of my own psychology I haven't had in the past until it was explained to me.
It's so bizarre and counterintuitive - but it's also true. It's that "kill the messenger" mentality. People will do anything to avoid admitting they were fooled.
Hey, I was fooled, too, for a long time. I really thought that people like the Obamas and the Clintons and all the rest did at least have the best interests of the USA at heart - it never occurred to me that they didn't -
until it did
and now I know better