Bingo. These are the same people who will say that most political violence comes from the left while removing a study showing the opposite: a study about a statistical trend that has been well known and documented for longer than I've been alive.

They don't care. Their beliefs shape shift to fit whatever is most expedient in the moment. They will openly lie to your face, without even trying to hide that it's a lie while they smile and say they're being honest. The people who gaslit the nation about project 2025 only to have cabinet members gleeposting about implementing it on social media.

Truth is irrelevant and reality is an inconvenience. Hypocrisy is as dead to them as the corpse of civility they prop up whenever it suits their narrative.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They lie because they believe they'll be part of the "in-group", while in reality, they are going to be censored the moment their higher-up has the ability to turn on them without retribution.

They are fools, but not to be underestimated.