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You Know, Most Things Really Are Not Hard to Figure Out

You Know, Most Things Really Are Not Hard to Figure Out

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Robert Lindsay
Apr 14, 2025
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This idea that political positions or even conspiracy theories are hard to figure out is nonsense. All you need is good critical thinking, which 90% of the population lacks, and you will get the right answer about just about everything for which a ready answer is available. People who disagree with things like this are either idiots or liars; that is, they don’t believe it because they don’t want to believe it. Once you get over this idea and decide,

I don’t care if I want to believe it or not, if it’s true, I’ll believe it.

you’re set free. Of course most people will hate your guts because you’re honest and that’s illegal in the US, but at least you will be morally correct.

All it takes is a deep dive. Some things are hard to prove, like unsolved crimes. A lot of times there are plenty of good suspects, and it’s easy to come up with the wrong suspect in part because there is so much lying going on with the rumors about unsolved crimes that it’s hard to figure out what’s true and what’…

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