bitlax

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Why did they lie?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/charlie-kirk-shooter-groyper/684244/

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Why People Fell for an Outlandish Charlie Kirk Theory

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8 pointsby bitlax10 mesi fa2 comments

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l’altro ieridiscuss

So true.

l’altro ieridiscuss

"You're in Plato's cave but everyone is bed rotting."

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"He considers himself well-informed..."

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Plot twist: Monet is actually garbage

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They like it as a punishment for boys exclusively.

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This but unironically.

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Peter Schiff was right!

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no

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-readies-1500-soldi...

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false dichotomy

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I absolutely do, I just don't want to wear BCGs.

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Oh are we not making bad faith arguments now?

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Suspects cheating.

Finds evidence of cheating.

"Try not being so paranoid."

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This was the theory with the universities.

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I see where you're coming from.

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> you're unlikely to permit yourself to empathize with anything else besides your ingroup.

But in your example you described an attitude of depraved indifference, which is exactly how I described the motivations of many drug dealers, including ones I know and that you do not.

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On re-read I may have been caught by Poe's Law here, in which case Thank God. I need sarcasm tags.

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There goes that empathy. Glad you do in fact realize that dealing fentanyl is wrong. Not something fantastic people do.

Edit: After your edit you seem to have found a rationale for rounding up and executing drug dealers "because reasons" so I think we're all done here.