More information given by the woman has been backed up.
  • cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Obviously every piece of evidence against is valuable given the unjust world we live in, but I have to think for a moment about how crazy it would be for anyone not currently convinced of his crimes to see this and then suddenly change their mind

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Human beings are bayesian. Nobody changes their mind instantly on almost anything. They collect information and compare it against their internal view of the world and update that view accordingly. Confirmation bias makes us interpret data in a way that more likely agrees with what we already think and believe (yes - all of us - you to dear reader).

      A slow steady push of data and facts may change some folks over time. But you can’t expect to just flick a switch and see all of MAGA change at once. But nobody reports on that one guy who read this and suddenly thinks “yeah - he probably did something”.

      • fonix232@fedia.io
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        8 days ago

        To be fair, there IS information that can make you immediately re-evaluate a person.

        To me, it was Musk’s “pedo guy” rant back in, what was it, '16, '17? Up until then, I thought he was an okay guy, doing tech things to improve humanity in general, and all the negative stuff being just… him being on the spectrum. It took me the moment he started throwing a very heavy accusation around quite baselessly to realise how shitty he is. A singular moment, a singular event, a singular piece of information made me re-evaluate everything I knew about him and see him for the shitstain he is.

    • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      And to think, we don’t even know what could have been covered up or erased during Trump’s first term when him and Barr were fully in control of the DOJ/DOC.

      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Right? We are dealing with the crumbs that are left over after two terms of trump that have come out despite total control of all three branches of the government plus the local jurisdictions in which this stuff occurred plus whatever other state actors were involved in the whole operation. It is a miracle anything made it out of that.