We come around, yet again, to the to-troll-or-not-to-troll question, because I can't quite believe anyone is so thick as to still be spinning this line after Fox made a settlement with Dominion in which they admitted that their claims about "Biden stealing the election" were total bullshit, and that they knew it at the time.
If you were one of my tutees I would literally now have to go through the article line by line in order to get you to understand how subtext works and how lots of what is described in the article is quite irregular. But we do not have the time and I've already decided not to put you in for the higher paper anyway.
Thats what I wanna know. I'd like to see Tea troll Biscuits instead.
It's what I get up for each morning!
So in other words, it doesn't say anything of the sort.
I was being charitable: the writer literally talks about 'conspiracy', 'cabal' etc. in positive terms.
Strawman - I never said they were living saints, and they were obviously acting in self-interest.
It’s essentially collective trauma yes. If we can think of Trauma as a violation and disruption of your reality that puts you in a state of hyper vigilance and sometimes paranoia, you form addictive cycles to cope, you lose trust in people and feel compelled to divide the world up into goodies and baddies to stay safe. I do think this way of thinking is useful in trying to empathise with those lost down the rabbit hole. Painful traumatising info and info we’re addicted to. I have a brother in a similar position to yours and I’ve tried to engage on the level of fact and theory but have come to the conclusion that it’s an emotional issue at heart, and an ego thing, and lots of other things. But I do believe we’re all susceptible to it and it’s good to keep that in mind
side point: don't disagree hugely here but I think the Iraq war and then the 2008 financial crash were both more important in fracturing the consensus than 9/11, spectacular though it was.
