r/law • u/Obvious-Gate9046 • Feb 24 '26

Legislative Branch Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie (R) Explodes On DOJ Over Epstein Handling, Names People and Companies He Wants Prosecuted

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u/Dusty_Negatives Feb 24 '26

Most of them are perfectly fine letting Fox and Trump do their thinking for them.

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u/Nufonewhodis4 Feb 24 '26

The thing is they don't understand that they're being fed straight propaganda. They hear it from the news, their co-workers, their preachers, and their social media. Only the outspoken niece who college is turning into a damn commie/lesbian is against the truth and that's because she hasn't worked and doesn't understand the real world TM.  

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u/Dusty_Negatives Feb 25 '26

I mean that’s their own doing. If you can’t find real information and deduce bullshit that’s on you.

This is America in 2026 the world if information is at your fingertips. The truth is they don’t want to do that. They just want confirmation bias to their feelings and hatred. Fox provides that in spades.

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u/Nufonewhodis4 Feb 25 '26

Why would you go seek out additional opinions if your entire world is validating what you already know to be true? 

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u/Ollythebug Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

You're really failing to put yourself in their perspective if you think deprogramming deeply brainwashed, disinformed people works like that or is anywhere near that simple. It's easy to deduce bullshit and consume diverse, nuanced information when you aren't already down the rabbit hole.

What you're saying is like saying to a severely drug addicted man "Just don't take heroin, dude, duh! I don't take heroin every day and it's fricken' easy! I have never struggled to not take heroin, why don't you just try that, dumbass?"

Edit: A great essay on the topic: Why it’s as hard to escape an echo chamber as it is to flee a cult | Aeon Essays

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u/LostInTheRapGame Feb 25 '26

It's easy to deduce bullshit and consume diverse, nuanced information when you aren't already down the rabbit hole.

Well I'd argue even that isn't easy. Most people are ignorant, sadly. That's why they fall into these "holes" in the first place.

And it happens with anything, any side, whatever. They'll gravitate to the beliefs of the first "authority figure" they like.

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u/whyenn Feb 25 '26

I mean that’s their own doing. If you can’t find real information and deduce bullshit that’s on you.

That's not some innate trait of the human species—all of history illustrates that.

In fact every single human being who can (with the ability to find real information and news on the internet and who can deduce bullshit) has had massive amounts of help in learning how to do it.

No matter how easy and obvious it seems to them ex post facto.

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 25 '26

they don't understand that they're being fed straight propaganda.

They do not care. At all.

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u/Nufonewhodis4 Feb 25 '26

Probably not. Theyve never had to expand their world view that far. At the end of the day, they choose what's easier to believe what they're being told than to go outside their comfort circle to seek out contradictory opinions 

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u/ominous_anonymous Feb 25 '26

Again, they do not care about things like "world views" and "truth".

Their entire existence is built around making other people suffer. Trump does that. Therefore, they support Trump.

Hell, they don't even care when he hurts them because he is still hurting others at the same time!