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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@rish_gpt
i've had ppl confidently report that i do a drug roulette game at parties, which i have *never* done. sometimes ppl confidently say i have a college degree in [insert field here]? have had ppl say they know me irl and i'm rude, but i don't remember their name or seeing their face
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Colin Wright
@SwipeWright
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@Aella_Girl
Yup, you get a true idea of how bad it is when you start seeing how badly they make up or distort "facts" about you. Then you realize that they do the same for everyone they're reporting on. It's bad. Really bad.
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out blind spot
@TPSReport
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@Aella_Girl
people instinctively try to balance status. it's not a problem with human nature. it's a problem with our culture. high status people should be criticized but they are rarely forced to talk to their critics. they usually stonewall. we let them do it to shield our lies about them.
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Chickadee
@starling_ts
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@Aella_Girl
Gossip has always been a thing. We need leaders to discern facts when targets are too overrun to clarify themselves. We each have a responsibility too. When I stopped attending school kids thought I was teaching somewhere, was a YouTuber, some thought I may shoot up the school.
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Balmoral
@Balmoral225
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@Aella_Girl
The malicious lies are scariest, but the wildest moments with this are the totally mundane falsehoods. Easily checked stuff that there’s zero payoff for lying about *still* gets totally falsified and confidently passed around.
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