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Well I guess I chose an example of people happily ingesting an obviously fake reality because it's most relevant to an article about propaganda coming from the same source.

There's also the idea that it's far easier to resolve/compromise on disagreements about policy (e.g. immigration) than disagreements about reality. Or, more fundamentally, disageements about if reality matters to us at all or if we'd rather choose the universe that makes us feel better.

It's kind of a tangent but it seems like when you are at full employment, most job growth would go to immigrants without any sort of foul play.

Because they didn't want to appear like the shitty kind of person who'd cherry pick articles about groups of people they're looking for an excuse to hate?