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rtunity for the people who put money into it. It might be, but it also would suggest that the prior owners, the Palestinian well the Gaza residents presumably they would be losing everything to these investors or almost everything. I saw an article by Red State saying that the Democrats are losing credibility because they cried wolf too often. In other words, they deny the obvious too often, like…

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hey did a study and they found that in both countries people's trust of the election increased after receiving both a warning that they might see some misinformation. Now do you see that this is propaganda? They say that when they warn people that they might see misinformation that those people are better equipped to know what to trust. Well, why is it that there's one entity that knows what's true and what isn't? That doesn't exist. How in the world can they pre-bunk stuff? So they call it pre-bunking where they tell people in advance that people will make claims and they won't be true. And they also call it inoculation. If you see pre-bunking and inoculation in the same story, that's propaganda. They're trying to tell you that there's somebody, the people in charge, who know what's true, and here's the important part. Not only do they know what's true, unlike you, but they really want to tell you the truth. Do you live in that world where your government knows what's true and they want you to know the truth? We don't live in any kind of a world like that. The government wants you to believe whatever is best for the government. You know, it might also be best for the country, but no, that's all propaganda. It's all brainwashing.

So then you also have to watch out for the documentary effect. If you could have just asked me, Scott, if you can make people sit down and pay attention to an argument that says that the election mechanisms are all trustworthy, and there's no counterargument. It's just you have to listen for half an hour while we tell you why cheating would be almost impossible with this election. Of course it would work. It's a documentary effect. If anybody gets to give you one side of an argument and you'll listen to it for half an hour, you will go away thinking there was something to it, even if there isn't. It's just how we were wired. So yeah, of course, pre-bunking and inoculation work. But the only people who talk that way are the people who are trying to hide the truth, not reveal it. That's what I say.

According to Eric Dolan writing in PsyPost, people who believe in conspiracy theories process information differently at a neural level. So they're not saying that people's brains have different big areas and active areas. Well, maybe active areas, but that they can actually look at what your brain is doing when you're processing conspiracy theories and they can find this. Some people use a structure of the brain that other people don't use. So didn't you all know? Didn't you all know that conspiracy theorists, their brains are wired differently? I feel like we all knew that because you know what? Your brain is very involved with what your choices and your beliefs are. Yeah, that's right. So people have different choices and different beliefs are obviously using a different set of neural pathways. And it's not a matter of being more gullible. It's a matter of which parts of the brain are part of the processing. They say I don'

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t know. I think everything's so it doesn't matter what part of your brain you use, you're not going to get the right answer that is not available to usually. Speaking of crazy people, Illinois Governor Pritzker he's now floating the conspiracy theory that Trump has other reasons for wanting to flow the National Guard into our cities and that he wants to do it so he can come up with some excuse fo…

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