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he’s becoming self aware

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ll always leave room for them, but I would still bet they will be fed their next set of talking points within the next 24 hours and be right back on board the crazy train.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago

That's the real issue. If you have your fundamental beliefs shaken, you might reason through and come to a good, logical, moral conclusion. You might also do the cognitive dissonance thing and suppress the new revelation with bullshit. If, however, you have someone (faux news) right there with the cognitive dissonance spewing 24/7 and are in an echo chamber of others who are agreeing... well, it's a good chance you'll just accept the talking point and not question it.

Maybe the way to go about it is mocking them if they're spouting the propaganda, and trying to help them in their reasoning if they're questioning things.