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[ SECRET POST #3987 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3987 ⌋

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[Book Series: The Temeraire Novels by Naomi Novik]

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When did you learn the fact was not true?

I totally believed Bush about the WMD in 2003. I was 100% pro-Iraq.

I didn't even like Bush, so I'm not sure why I bought into all that.

I can kinda get that. It's hard to believe that a president would either be that flagrantly wrong and still be confident enough in it to go to war, or would be willing to flagrantly lie to go to war. The enormity of it makes it harder to believe.

I saw someone on Twitter making a similar point about the tax bill, actually: it's just genuinely hard for people on the center/center-right to believe that the bill is as bad as it actually is.

I was anti-war in 2003. My dad locked me in the car and drove me in circles describing what WMDs do and various Afghani and Iraqi human rights abuses in some detail (I don't remember what he said well enough to verify any of it, because it was 14 years ago) until I agreed that the invasion was a good idea.

I was 10. Parenting!

i'm... still sorta pro-iraq?

in the sense that "it was a war that was always going to happen so let's get it over with", not the clusterfuck the aftermath turned into

Same here.

Like, Iraq was a fucking shitshow and I'm 100% against how we handled virtually every aspect of it. But I never had a problem with going to war with Iraq in general. I think it was inevitable after 9/11.

I remember thinking Amanda Knox was guilty. I wasn't even into the case/trial. It was just based on random tidbits and headlines I had heard.

Global warming R Fake

When I learned how much money the fossil fuel industry made, and pumped back into that assertion...and suppressing other tech :(

It still was confusing for a long time and i know that was no accident. :(

also they've buried as much as possible the extremely well proven link between Alzheimer's and gasoline exhaust :( :( :(

Everything about birth control that my sex-ed class had to teach us to scare us into never using it and never having sex unless we wanted babies.

I learned the truth when I found an internet debate about abortion and birth control and decided to be a smartass neutral party who was just there to correct everyone's statistics. Everyone was like, "Oh honey, you had sex-ed in one of THOSE states, didn't you..."

birth control was never even mentioned in my sex ed classes. neither was female orgasm, anybody being gay, masturbation or a whole lot of other things. it was just BABIES BABIES BABIES and some STD scare tactics.

Yeah, all I remember about sex ed was being shown a slideshow of STD riddled dicks.

I hope they at least paid those poor SOBs.

all i remember is biology/science gender sex organ in my school year. they even teach plant have their own "sex" organ.

wtf?....

My family were big time conspiracy theorists, so when I was a kid I believed the moon landing was faked, among a few other things, but that's the biggest one.

Columbus had to convince people the Earth was round. In fact, everyone important already knew and also suspected his estimate of the circumference was about half of reality. Didn't discover this until after college.

flat earther?

More like Columbus thought he could sail to India. Technically you can, but you need to head south first (or these days through Panama), so what he landed on ended up called the "West Indies".

oh, the north, south, west, east counter.... the compass.

i don't understand flat earther people asked, when those "compass" was even existed....?

also, magnetic. how do they work?

Yes, I kinda don't understand their logic either.

True, but the court of Portugal probably didn't know about the Americas when they denied Columbus funding, the court of Spain may have had reports of a landmass in the North Atlantic from another source.

Skepticism regarding Columbus's claims was entirely due to the fact that he thought the Earth was half its size. Educated men and women in Europe knew the Earth was round, they knew it's approximate size, they knew how many days it took to reach China the "long" ways, and they knew Columbus's ships were not capable of traveling that distance without resupply.

That is interesting information. I do believe people in those times knew more than modern folk often attribute to them because there were plenty of very good scientists and mathematicians who were the builders of the fields.

No, it was just "common knowledge" when I was a teen that everyone except for Columbus was a flat-earther in the Renaissance and he was a radical for proof along with Galileo. In fact, most educated people knew he was full of shit and he couldn't have reached India with his ships in that time.

That "antioxidants" are good for you. Didn't realise that one had been suckering me until I read Bad Science.

I thought the book version of Misty of Chincoteague was true.

I didn't learn the truth until I convinced my Mom to detour to the island on the way home from Washington DC in the summer of 2001.

Edited 2017-12-04 06:41 (UTC)

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