The authoritarian elite expect us to not question. If they say "Trust us" they expect your trust. If they tell you it is "classified" they expect you to accept that and stop questioning. If they tell you it is "part of an ongoing investigation" they expect you to back off so as not to compromise the investigation. If they say something "is debunked" they expect you to accept that without question.
If you do this then you are the vassals, servants, and slaves to the authoritarians.
Why should you blindly trust anyone?
What if it is not classified, and they just said it was so you'd stop asking for the information? What if it is classified but it does not meet any criteria for the type of information that should be classified?
If they tell you it is part of an ongoing investigation, what if it isn't? What if they just said that so you would stop asking questions or requesting information they don't want you to have?
I've also pointed out they very often call things "debunked" without actually doing any debunking. I've seen things called "debunked" when they first appear and it is impossible for anyone to have looked at or investigated at that point to call anything "debunked". They often don't even show you how it was debunked. They expect people to "trust them" and not question.
Another thing about "debunked" is sometimes they will reference another outlet that claims to have debunked it and that data may have been proven inaccurate. It isn't retracted and then future people reference something that was false as proof of debunking. They count on the laziness and blind obedience of the masses. They don't want to do the work to see if there is something actually there.
Our system is highly broken.
Highly corrupted.
and our population is being hammered by propaganda at a level so far beyond any other time in history that it is both amazing and scary.
The authoritarians demand your obedience and how dare you question or challenge anything they do, or say.
I will not comply.
I will question.
Once I catch them lying and making up information I am not going to suddenly trust them later.
When they claim to debunk something I am actually going to look at the data and think about it for some time with reason.
I also am not going to avoid listening to certain people, outlets, or information simply because the authoritarians tell me I shouldn't avail myself of those sources.
I am pretty heavily biased at this point against the vast majority of the U.S. government and that extends to other governments as well but I do not know them like I do the U.S. since that is where I reside.
