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More likely is that most if not all of them saw something innocuous, but constant screaming about corruption from certain public figures colored their recollect
by snakeboy 6y ago
More likely is that most if not all of them saw something innocuous, but constant screaming about corruption from certain public figures colored their recollection a bit.
It's like when you hear a muffled audio recording but it's incomprehensible, and then you're told by a headline, "Can you believe Mr. X just said Y?". Then you listen again, and voila, you interpret the audio as Y. You've been primed to hear Y, so your brain hears it.
When you've been primed by all your anti-establishment media sources to see fraud, then you think back to that time 3 weeks ago when you thought you overheard two coworkers at the mail-sorting center talking about "post-dating the ballots". Well, maybe they didn't say "ballots" exactly... But it was "post-date the fourth", and surely they meant "November 4th", right? I mean election day was the 3rd, and they weren't trying to count late ballots, were they? But what else could they have meant? And they sure looked suspicious when I came over and interrupted them. I mean they didn't mention ballots again that whole conversation because I guess they were worried I would tell someone.
Reading through some of the affidavits and watching the interviews gives the impression that these are well-intentioned folks who just wanted to report something without understanding the context, and they've been primed for fraud. Unfortunately, they get picked up by politicians and media figures who have a clear pro vote-rigging agenda, and get made a martyr for the cause by plastering their face all over OANN, Project VERITAS, etc. It's depressing to watch.
Edit: For fun, here's a tweet demonstrating the audio-priming example you can try for yourself!
https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1086436669413183488 https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1086436669413183488