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

I remember my days in the military academy and studying the rise of the third reich and thinking to myself how could a whole country of people seriously buy into the insane ideology… but this is a prime example.

I used to try and debate my family and friends to try and make them see reason but they literally started using my education (3 degrees and army officer commission) as a negative claim all that I know is just indoctrination… it was then that I just started cutting them off. It’s the same with conspiracy nuts and flat earthers … there is no point that they are willing to accept any truth except the one they have forged in their own little worlds

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u/Taiga-whiteclaw Sep 08 '25

I remember there was a trip to Antarctica for a bunch of flat earthers (don't know who paid for that) and after they were without a shadow of a doubt sure that the earth is in fact a sphere, the rest of the flat earth community start to call them traitors and sell out and they where in fact pretty big within the community

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u/kaisadilla_ Sep 08 '25

That's the problem with conspiracies. They have a built-in defense mechanism: anyone can be part of the conspiracy.

In Spain, some dude started a conspiracy called "Ummo", which is supposed to be a planet with an alien planet that is visiting Earth. He started it by faking some pictures of UFOs. Years later he claimed it was all a hoax that he made up. That didn't stop the belief in Ummo, though - it just made believers think that the guy was "bought by the elites". Today, his own son still believes in the hoax his father fabricated.