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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
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
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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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Rish
@rish_gpt
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@Aella_Girl
That must feel horrible. I don’t know what’s Easier having faceless strangers misunderstand you and misrepresent you or having know Peope to do so
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Ilzolende
@ilzolende
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@Aella_Girl
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@rish_gpt
I think "I know so-and-so IRL and they're rude" is the sort of thing someone could genuinely believe after, say, seeing a person and trying to interact and being unnoticed a few times? Not fair to you ofc but seems like a thing someone might think.
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