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Theyre the ones that we saw heading up the stairs of the capitol building, in a stacked wedge formation. ♪ [people shouting] messaging and storytelling has the power to kind of disconnect our higher functions with decision-making and critical thinking. cognitive dissonance, if you will. - well, people like to get riled up now when theyre consuming news and information. they almost want to be angry at the other side, and it works. controversy sells. - fuck antifa! [crowd chanting] fuck antifa! ...

And theyre giving sean spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. but the point remains-- - wait a minute. look, alternative facts are not facts. [glass cracking] [dramatic music] ♪ [indistinct chatter] - i was previously employed with the oath keepers, which is one of the largest militia organizations in the world. [engine rumbling] theyre the ones that we saw heading up the stairs of the capitol building, in a stacked wedge formation. ♪ [people shouting] messaging and sto...

I’m so tired of catering to her anxieties about this.

- youre saying its a falsehood, and theyre giving sean spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that. but the point remains-- - wait a minute. look, alternative facts are not facts. [glass cracking] [dramatic music] ♪ [indistinct chatter] - i was previously employed with the oath keepers, which is one of the largest militia organizations in the world. [engine rumbling] theyre the ones that we saw heading up the stairs of the capitol building, in a stacked wedge formation. ♪ [pe...

To kind of disconnect our higher functions with decision-making and critical thinking. cognitive dissonance, if you will. - well, people like to get riled up now when theyre consuming news and information. they almost want to be angry at the other side, and it works. controversy sells. - fuck antifa! [crowd chanting] fuck antifa! [shouting, grunting] - [screaming] - talk is cheap. talk excites, and agitates, and inflames. and talk binds you to a personality and often a point of view. - despite c...

Because wed be doing something really illegal. if i thought somebody was doing that, they should go to jail. >> there has to be some degree of trust in those who serve the public that theyre doing something for the public good. and that we have lost. i dont know our way out, but this is the world we live in right now. >> theres some kind of cognitive dissonance out there where people are saying, well, weve got to save democracy by overturning an election. thats more of a dictatorship than it is ...

Army intelligence analyst and whistle-blower. she leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wikileaks. now, to some, manning is a hero. to others, shes a traitor. but after serving seven years in a military prison, including time in solitary, she was granted freedom when then-president obama commuted her sentence in 2017. chelsea manning is now trying to reclaim the narrative about why she did and what she did. in a new memoir titled "read me .text." chelsea manning joins us now. t...

Chelsea manley joins us now. thank you so much for joining. >> thank you. >> so the book is about offering your side of the story about why you lead 750,000 documents, classified and sensitive, to wikileaks. what ultimately pushed you to take that extreme step? >> right, so, what if you boil down to was this incredible discrepancy, this cognitive dissonance i had between what the public was--i consider myself a very educated and informed member of the public, prior to enlisting in the military a...

There are constraints. the portuguese government has dealt with constraints for a very long time and the european union is a very big constraint. it forces a kind of fiscal responsibility to the government. liz truss came in and thought that she was able to set up and to enrol and implement a radical agenda for which voters had not voted in, in 2019. if she would be a student in my class, i would be doubted one of the first things i tell my students is that they need to learn the constraints, po...

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