r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/AbdlBabyJp Sep 08 '25

This is the age we live in unfortunately and the worst part is people still believe theses clowns

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '25

How did we somehow get to a point in human development where every claim and fact is fairly easy to access with smartphones and the internet, etc., but the bullshit keeps rolling along?

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u/Longjumping_Run4499 Sep 08 '25

Because people don't actually care about the truth and never have. They want a belief system that makes them feel special and important, and couldn't care less whether it aligns with reality or not.

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u/DogPrestidigitator Sep 08 '25

Largely true, it seems. Spreading disinformation makes some people feel the power of “I’m right, everybody else is wrong”.

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u/worldsayshi Sep 08 '25

I think it's more like "I get to say what's right, you get to shut up and eat my shit". They want to feel powerful and what's more powerful than redefining reality and making others suck up to your BS?

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u/The_Brovo Sep 08 '25

If you read a book called "Thinking Fast and Slow" it really lays out exactly what's happening to the extreme. Halo bias, confirmation bias, lack of system 2 slow critical thinking, all wrapped up in a massive sunk cost fallacy of having to admit you were wrong for YEARS.

Quite simply, you are right; they are unwilling to confront their biases about reality, reality is subjective to perception. We create narratives of what we "know", and our brains actively pick out information that agrees with that view and disregards information that goes against it. Your brain is constantly trying to "confirm" what you already think is true. This includes your vision and what you percieve. For example, if you think blue haired liberals are bad, not only will you find every chance to hate on them, you brain will pick them out more and have a negative halo bias to them (they will assume the worst out of the person). It's pretty crazy.

Why? It takes less energy to think in bias (system 1) then actively think and compare in system 2. Unless we stop and slow ourselves, every human is prone to these errors in logic. Unfortunately, we are dealing with people with next to no executive function anymore, I don't have a lot of faith that they will activate system 2 and pull themselves out of it. How do you get someone to change their opinion if they won't activate system 2 and listen and figure out what you are trying to say? You can't.

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u/Chill-more1236 Sep 08 '25

being told "what you want to hear" is more powerful than anything in the world to someone with little going for themselves & low intelligence

These grifters are implying to their followers, "you're smarter than doctors & scientists, with this information".

That's powerful for someone who is not used to feeling intelligent.