I really hate the way things work in the fight-wing disinfo sphere, where Trump and his cronies can make up something about Democrats "manufacturing ballots" and repeat it a bunch, and a million people on Twitter just automatically interpret whatever they see in terms of htat.

Votes come in for Biden? Someone is on video filling out a form? There's a typo on some state's election site? No matter what happens, it's read in terms of the narrative of "fake ballots made by Dems" and then also taken as proof of that narrative.

I have seen five different videos of completely innocuous activity in a counting site captioned with "IS THIS WHAT I THINK IT IS?" and have to scroll through 50 people saying "YES THEY ARE SO SHAMELESS" and "WHERE IS THE DOJ?" before someone explains what they think they see.

And it'll be like someone crumpling up a tiny scrap of paper that's obviously not a ballot and throwing it away. "They're tossing ballots!" Or people filling out forms. "They're marking new ballots!"

And it's like, you can actually look at the video and see it's 100% not what they say it is, what they think it is. But they have been given their assigned narrative, and believing is seeing. They choose to see what the narrative says must be true.

And so they are all *swearing* that there's mountains of evidence of fraud in plain site and no one's doing anything. If this were true, Trump's lawyers would take it to court. Instead they are going to court with nothing, and being laughed out of the courtoom.

And so all these people, who only believe something is wrong because they were told to believe it, are getting angrier and angrier that nothing is happening, and not once do they ask themselves, "If this were really fraud and it was this obvious, would Trump be winning in court?"

You can't reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. They choose to believe these things; only they can choose to stop believing them, and they have at present no motive to do so.

I understand how it works. But I hate it.