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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a lot of people in agreement that the truth was out there, but bitterly divided as to what it might actually be.

This has been my take.

They're not there for the truth. They're there for validation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A lot of people are predispositioned to believe that the official story is automatically true.