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Thank you. So the context, which the screenshot of a screenshot doesn't show you is that these are the final paragraphs summarizing the rest of the article (which is cut out) was all about how the CIA was very much involved.
Reading the whole thing* in that context* I don't see the cognitive dissonance - more, that it's agreeing that he was right all along that the CIA was in fact fucking around with their country.
Did you try reading the yellow highlighted text in the screenshot?
I sure did! And I read the rest of the words around that!
What's your point? Mine was that if you take a few sentences, remove the context, the meaning is different.
CNN is saying that what people were told previously (that he was just paranoid) is actually justified.
A better example of what this tweet and thus this lemmy post are going for would probably be links to articles previously saying he was just paranoid - particularly if it was also CNN saying it. 🙃
What do the words "without evidence" mean?