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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by BurningFrog on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:20AM (#27958994)
"Nobody is perfect" is always true, but also a common intellectual defence mechanism that is only applied to your ingroup.

When the outgroup shows their imperfections, a whole other set of cognitive tools are used.

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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by fortuna86 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:04PM (#27961136)
If your side "owns a mistake" and the other side doubles down on a lie, that's not the same thing. You can't both sides that.
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