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“I’m sorry, David. I know how much you loved her. We all did, fella. But the chances of us finding her alive are-”

   "No!“ David cried from a place deep within, a place he had hardly ever dared reach into. “She’s not gone. She’s not gone. She can't be gone.” He felt Liz’s warm arms closing around him and fell sideways into them, dropping the phone.

   "Shush,“ she whispered, singing sweet dragonsong into his ear.

   Russ’s disembodied voice spoke out near the floor.

   "I want her back,” David wailed to Liz.

   "I know,“ she said, and muted the phone. "Listen,” she whispered. “Listen to me now.” And she sang him a lullaby that could have calmed a dragon.

   And long before she was finished, he was still.

It has literally always been a lie.  These lies have killed millions of Americans over the years.  It has cost the US Trillions of dollars in lost efficiency and higher healthcare costs over the years.  It has helped drag down the life expectancy of the US, meaning, ultimately, that Americans have lost hundreds of millions of years from their lives.

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It’s almost impossible to change someone’s mind using facts.

This happens due to ‘motivated reasoning,’ a psychology term that refers to the way people usually believe whatever they want to believe and use the flimsiest piece of evidence to justify that belief, even when there is plenty of verified evidence to disprove it.

Want to know the reason for blocking it? It would put a strain on employers. The capitalist class will always prioritize their well-being over their less wealthy fellow humans, and this is yet another example.

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