The system has reached the stage that when a news item appears in the most prestigious official press that it immediately generates belief in the opposite proposition than the one it tries to produce. "Didn't think Barr was in on it before but now..."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/technology/no-barr-was-not-part-of-a-secret-plot-against-president-trump.html …
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
In the Gray Lady's frame, they're debunking popular misinformation. In your frame, the Gray Lady has so much power to determine what is popular that the choice of what to allegedly debunk constitutes ahttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial …
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They feel powerless because people believe things that they choose to suppress (by not reporting on them). "How can people believe those things? There must be some malign force that we're fighting." Totally sealed against falsification causes them to be more and more off.
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