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as i've recently gotten to know more public figures, i've become increasingly horrified at the amount of outright lies there are about their lives. the public doesn't give a *shit* about the truth. news outlets and mobs just say blatantly false things, zero fact checking

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

its a creeping uncanny disgust. i *knew* media wasn't trustworthy, but I don't think I realized the *degree*. Some part of me believed that people cared at least a little bit about the truth before they tried to destroy others, but I was wrong. we're no better than lynch mobs.

5:59 AM · Dec 16, 2022

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i've only barely begun to taste it happening to me; sometimes i stumble across tweets or forum posts where people confidently say a wrong thing about my life history or beliefs and i'm like ???? how the fuck did you get so confident about something so untrue?

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Dec 16, 2022

if the rest of the world just outright lies about you and believes it and tries to destroy you based on things that aren't true and they refuse to believe any evidence to the contrary, i am *not* surprised some public figures turn bitter or aggressive. it's gotta be a nightmare.

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Melanie

@ignoblerot

Dec 16, 2022

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@Aella_Girl

Who is doing the lying, then? Largely those public figures or their manicured assistants trained to interface with the media

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just... random people! the public figures aren't lying, or at least not the ones I know, or at least not about the things that the media/mobs are confidently reporting incorrectly. I have *been present* for events that I saw mobs later claiming happened differently

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Media is both politically and profit driven.

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I think we would all be absolutely shocked and horrified if we could see how corrupt and evil the power dynamics of this world really are. I'm reminded of Jesus saying that Satan is the ruler of this world. 🙏🙏

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I noticed it when both the police report and testimony for a court case I was tangentially involved in were wildly out of synch with the recorded 911 call, which the prosecutor played in front of me prior to court.