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I believe the word "also" should indicate that the behavior in the second sentence is distinct from the behavior in the first sentence. There are two behaviors here:

- They contradict themselves.

- They habitually selectively report facts to distort reality

The footnote belongs with the second behavior which is why the [1] was on the second sentence.

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You are using a supposed contradiction as evidence that they have a distorted view of reality. Without the contradiction (which I see none), the argument that they are distorting reality lacks premise.

It banks on inferring, "Joe drank too much last night and we got in a car crash." to explicitly mean "Joe was driving drunk". It isn't a completely off-base interpretation, but it isn't rock solid either. More context is necessary before this conversation has any real value.

Once again: I never claimed there was a contradiction in the example given. It may have been unclear in my original comment, but I have clarified this twice now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29719559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29720636

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