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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 94 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Smells strongly of retrofitted justification BS to me.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 50 points 15 hours ago

Yeah. The dude that came up with the term cognitive dissonance described this process in his book When Prophesy Fails. Basically when you are in a cult and your doomsday ends up being a normal day you have a freak out of cognitive dissonance. This isn’t great because people don’t like having their strongly held beliefs shown to be invalid. So they must come up with a post hoc rationalization as to why their doomsday didn’t come true and why they are still right.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 14 points 14 hours ago

May also just be a troll tactic. Sowing retrofitted justification with ai. The first comment is bait.

I honestly cant tell anymore. Dead internet theory moving fast on that site.