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p that introduces cognitive dissonance in him he just changes the subject. So if you try and discuss it with these people one of the first things they do is they just jump out of the conversation and you know they'll say well he's a dictator so yeah they were even discussing this you know he's a dictator. There's just nothing to discuss. It's funny that anybody thinks that a dictator is still a go…
← Previous segment →people hoax. Well I did. I actually have a little AM radio show out here in North Carolina on the weekends and I did it for a show. And the interesting thing was the fact that like the last caller I don't think you can get too far into the funnel because either people are immediately just said you know what you're lying even though I read the quote to them. But what was really strange was as soon as they admitted — and a bunch of people did — they admitted that the quote was accurate and they admit that this was a false story they immediately jumped to the 1,200 and 13 other things they believe that you know why Donald Trump was the Antichrist. So to them it's like they believe but we have enough examples. We don't care if one is false even though maybe 1,212 are false. It's that 1,213 where he's the Antichrist. So yeah it's impossible.
So the bottom of the hoax funnel is the laundry list? Yeah is where they default to it. Now that's why in my blog post I addressed some of the laundry lists. So I just sort of did one-liners debunking all of the rest of the laundry list that's in the same genre right. But yeah you can't get people to even read the sentence. Well I think it's a two-step funnel. As soon as you read the quote they go right to the laundry list. There's no reasoning. It's oh but you know everything else right. Yeah. Now in your case you weren't doing it in person. You were doing it on the show right? That's correct. Yeah the person as well. But what's been interesting to me is I've done it to people who are Trump supporters not people that are — because a lot of people that are Trump supporters they don't obviously think that he's a supporter of white supremacy and neo-Nazis. They don't think that's accurate. But they think he makes enough verbal gaffes that it might possibly be true. But when I hold them the actual quote because they start to buy into it a little bit they're like well some of it has to be true because you know the wildcard. And I'm like no it's not true. And then they're like and then they get upset and are like oh my God. And I'm like yeah it's the media's been promoting this for a year and you guys have not bothered to even look up the quote. So yeah it's crazy.
Yeah and remember I predicted that we wouldn't get people to be able to read it out loud. So I've got a good — so thanks guys. Thank you. Thanks for the update. Thank you. It's funny as soon as I heard Anthony's voice I thought well this sounds like somebody who's on the radio and sure enough he is.
All right let's see. Stephen you don't have a profile picture. I'm always a little hesitant to allow a guest in who doesn't have a profile picture but I'm gonna trust you. Caller can you hear me? I can hear you. Did you try the fine people hoax? No I did not. No I was calling about something else. I said I could convince you about that the purpose of sports is fairness in two minutes. I'll give you 30 seconds to convince me that sports are about fairness and when can I play in the NBA. Go. 30 seconds. I guess he's gone.
All right let's try Dino. By the way convincing me that sports are fair you're not gonna be able to do that. All right caller can you hear me? Caller did you try the fine people one? A little kill shot for the whole — okay well here's a kill shot. The thing is I've been spending like two three days just some people hoax and the last thing they will say who will ever — a Confederate flag. I get to and then it's like Reuters did a poll and do you support the removal of the statues. Turns out 44% of black people both opposed to removal. All right okay can you — yes I already did and but yeah it's right now because I haven't tweeted anything after it but but amazing like there's a
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lot of things like approval ratings on whatever at the end of African-Americans actually oppose removal. That's great. Yeah I'm definitely gonna add that to my blog. I'm getting a lot. Thanks a lot. All right that's all for now. I'll talk to you later.
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