• ferristriangle [undecided]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    I love how if you’ve even been paying a passing amount of attention to this atrocity propaganda campaign over the past several years you will have seen a thousand instances of sensationalized claims and accusations that are inevitably walked back a few months later.

    But there’s just something about the cognitive dissonance of the average liberal who is desperate for a justified conflict with a scary foreign adversary that they are allowed to feel “uncomplicated, nationalistic/patriotic pride” about that makes them keep saying, “sure, you may have fooled me the first 1487 times, but I’m feeling really good about lucky number 1488!”

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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      9 days ago

      They’re being walked back less and less, nowadays they just say something and shut up about it a week later, then it becomes “common knowledge” (it-is-known)