The cognitive equivalent of driving backwards to lower the odometer. "What would have to be true in order to justify my beliefs? Oh, that's what must be true."
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I honestly cannot understand how people can be so stupid as to believe that something so vast can be faked. Every example you can find of a conspiracy theory that was found to be true involved quite a bit less than millions of conspirators. Somehow that's easily ignored by morons.
Not terribly surprising, but no less horrific. A lot of my extended family either died or fled the continent in the Holocaust. As vague napkin math, I think about 30% died, half managed to get out to Canada, the US, the UK, etc, and I'm a descendant of the 20% who managed to stay and hide.
All that said, fuck all genocide deniers, regardless of the specific genocide you're talking about.
it gets worse - a couple of days ago right after a missile attack reddit was full of threads discussing how ukrainians have death wish forcing russians to kill them instead of stopping the war and the killings.
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united states and soviet union both find evidence of a thing and agree on its existence
ignore it because AOCIA and Zionran Obamadami think the holocaust happened, so believing the holocaust happened is imperialism
This implies that they do not trust Soviet sources either then I suppose.
Name one historian named "Victor".
The tankies are an exercise in overcorrection. Don't swing the pendulum so far, as the Buddha once said, it's all about balance and staying in the middle.
This too is the wrong reaction. The truth is the truth. You find out the truth by finding evidence. It's rarely in the middle of 2 extremes. It's just what it is.
At the very least, don't assume the exact opposite of a false position is true.

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