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Think. Again.

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19. That's true...

Reply to yardwork (Reply #10)

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 11:44 AM

Jan 2025

Last edited Sat Jan 4, 2025, 02:12 PM - Edit history (1)

I was surprised to find I agreed with a couple of points the Las Vegas suicide guy wrote in hs last notes.

The problem seems to be they are taking in all this false 'information' and it just settles in their minds as "fact" without any recognition of how it conflicts with all the other actual information they can see all around them. For instance, it's obvious from his many business failures that trump is not a good businessman (running cons and scams is not doing "business" ) and yet they fully believe he is, probably because they once watched a tv show based on the fiction that he is.

I'm sorry I didn't explain that well, but isn't that called "cognitive dissonance"?

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