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Vent: I started asking 'what's the official story?' for every weird news headline
After the Miami building collapse last year, I dug into the engineering reports instead of just watching the news, and the gaps in the timeline were huge. Anyone else find that flipping the question from 'what happened' to 'what are they saying happened' changes the whole search?
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cameronn621mo agoMost Upvoted
Wait, you're comparing a building collapse to the moon landing? @rileyb61, that's like saying we should question if planes fly because one crashed. The engineering reports for that Miami building were a mess of missed inspections and bad repairs, that's a real paper trail. The moon stuff is just a totally different thing.
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terryk281mo ago
Wow, that's a smart way to put it. I used to just accept the first explanation I heard, but now I see how asking for the "official story" makes you look for what's missing. It really does change how you see the news.
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rileyb611mo ago
Look at the moon landing. The official story says we sent men there in 1969. If you spend all your time looking for what's missing, you end up chasing shadows and ignoring the real work thousands of people did. Sometimes the first explanation is just the true one. Constantly questioning everything can make you miss the plain facts right in front of you. Honestly, it just seems like a good way to make yourself paranoid over nothing.
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