Misinformation drove these people to vote for Trump. This is going be leopard eating their faces. Sad and shows just how much fake videos and misinformation can influence our elections.

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    14 hours ago

    remember when talking about “dumbing down the country” got you labeled as a tinfoil hat conspiracy loon? peppridge ranch remembers

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      10 hours ago

      Shit, I remember reading about a quasi-secretive government agency called the NSA that was listening in to your phone calls and it was called batshit insane.

      After Snowden, they just pretended like of course it was always there and why would anyone ever not know they were monitoring communications of course they were it’s national security - and nobody said another fucking word.

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        10 hours ago

        denial. “i don’t like this fact that i just learned, so i’m going to pretend i didn’t hear it and carry on like nothing ever happened”