this is most of why the Covington thing was such a shitshow once people had strong feelings about the initial, 100% bullshit story, their brains handled it as real, and debunking it was then largely indistinguishable from a gaslighting attempt and was usually reacted to as such
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the opportunity to narrativize a virgin sequence of events is too much power for any human to wield
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as of the time at which they had strong feelings about it
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some false things are truer than true
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