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When mainstream media has been pushing pernicious narratives and outright lies for many years, I see why people would be skeptic about their claims.

Unfortunately, most people don't have the means (technical knowledge, time) to appropriately asses the real danger of this situation, so they have two options:

- Believe the liars.

- Don't believe the liars.

It turns out, the liars weren't lying this time.

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>most people don't have the means (technical knowledge, time) to appropriately asses the real danger of this situation,

That's only part of the problem. The real problem is that they don't want to do due diligence. It feels much better to believe/disbelieve things based on whether they want them too be true or not, rather than actually finding out they are true or not.

Well, it doesn't help much either to put a mainstream entertainment persona as the president of the USA.

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