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The men who swallowed everything: This campaign season, some of America’s richest people promoted, and even seemed to believe, ludicrous hoaxes

If there’s one salient feature of the 2024 election cycle, it’s that rich people—rich men, particularly, and even more particularly ones who support Donald Trump’s reelection campaign—fell for things at a previously unimaginable rate. Separate from simply supporting Trump or advancing right-wing talking points, they promoted ideas and stories that almost no reasonable person could possibly believe: cartoonish lies, absurd leaps of logic, and clearly fake documents.

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  • The wealth of a person doesn't show in what the person believes.

    Conspiracy, fake news, misinformation are not for the poorer, the masses. It's here for everyone.

    People often wrongly think that wealth protect you from these believes. The second wrong assumption is the intelligence protect you. It's not. And, wealth and intelligence aren't correlated. Another myth.

    • Tbf, intelligence helps:-).

      But yeah, definitely not a guarantee - see e.g. Ivermectin.

      It seems more like emotional agility is the more primary key - a willingness to look (inwards, outwards, at others, at the world, and accept what one sees).