I don’t know about y’all, but if I grew up in a country that never has the news criticizing its leaders, I’d be very skepical and deduce that there is censorshop going on and the offical news could be exaggerated or entirely falsified. Do people in authoritarian countries actually just eat the propaganda? To what extent do they believe the propaganda?

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    I find way too many people talking about “common sense” as if that was even a thing. It frustrates me to no end.

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        I’m wondering how you are measuring “common sense” that arrives at “usually false.” Are you ignoring obviously common sense things, like “the sky is up” – since that’s just common sense?

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          If you are in North America and you draw a line straight up, will you reach the sky in Australia?

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            Well I didn’t say the sky isn’t also down. (Begrudging upvote.)

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              You know, you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

              I respect your technical smartass response to my technical smartass check attempt.