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Convincing somebody that they're hallucinating is almost impossible because they're seeing it with their own eyes. They feel it. You can't talk somebody out of it. But here's the best thing you could do. The best thing you could do is get them to arrive at it through questions. So rather than say you're wrong, you're seeing it wrong, and people just harden in their opinion, you could say something like this: Really? It looks like you think that the German situation is like the beginning of maybe some kind of a Nazi lockdown. And they say yeah. Then you say how different are things in Germany compared to all the other countries who are dealing with the same thing? Are they treating it differently? And then your friend says well I don't know, I haven't looked at other countries. You say well it seems to me if you did, they're all doing the same thing. Seems like every country is going through exactly the same thing. I'm wondering why only in Germany it looks like the beginning of a Nazi takeover but in every other country such as you name it it's not. But you also realize that every country is having the same conversation, right?

So I would broaden it away from Germany so that they could see that your situation is essentially identical to most of the other industrialized countries. And just say if it's happening everywhere I don't know, is the whole country going Nazi? I don't think so. Or the whole world, probably not. So that's the best you could do is just point out that it's everywhere so you shouldn't worry about it specifically. That's not going to talk anybody out of it but it might make them pause a little bit because that's the sort of thing they have to talk themselves into. So you just want to ask the questions, let them deal with the new expansion of their thinking. Maybe they go away and come back better. But mostly you're not going to be able to change minds on that stuff. Only events themselves could change it, which means we get past this and things go back to normal. But thanks for the question.

Before you go, correct me if I'm wrong but I got disconnected from following you and then I re-followed you. Does that sound... what I meant basically following back. You never followed me before so no glitch. I never followed you before. Okay I've interacted with you so many times I thought I had. So I'm following you now but thank you. You're one of my best favorite Twitter personalities because one of the great things about being in my position if you've got, I'm closing in on half a million followers, is that it attracts some people who are just unusually good at commenting on stuff. And you're one of them. You're in my top two or three I think. And so it makes what I do so much more valuable because I'll say something crazy then people who actually know how to analyze things, sort of know how to look at the world, they come in the comments and say yes or no or should have thought of this. And then I start with these bad ideas and then the commenters such as yourself, you're definitely one of the best, just carve it down into something real. And it's kind of wonderful honestly. So thank you for that. Thanks a lot. Bye. All right take care.

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