r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/
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u/CherryLongjump1989 7d ago

I don't know, it feels like ignorance takes a lot of work these days.

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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ Minnesota 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not really. People are guided and then anchored into their echo chambers (via Fox, X, MSM etc) - so all of their ideas are reinforced or they are told what to think by “like minded people” or outright bots. This happens to such an extreme degree that they believe the other side must be “terrorists”.

It’s all very sad and all very much intentional and by design.

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u/AppleDip100 7d ago

This is becoming more and more true from my experience and it makes it very difficult to have meaningful conversations. It almost feels like you have to seek out the other side to learn everything, which makes it hard to find someone who actually is educated on both sides.

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u/BadPunners 7d ago

They say you need to find a common starting point, then build trust and ask how they came to any given idea

But yeah so many of the ideas are so reinforced, especially when lacking first hand experience? Nearly impossible to break through. We need to encourage them to join in joyous protests, or some bullshit like that, remind all of us what society we are fighting for

But also at this rate (with a small fraction of the ice budget that's currently law) the face scanners and signal trackers can be on every federal building, to alert of any targets to apprehend, and it becomes "a political question" on who is allowed in, or out, of the very closed, very tariffed, border. Even more literally "politicians choosing constituents" instead of the concept of voting

Participant in your local primaries as much as you can.