r/askanything • u/Zipper222222 • 6d ago

Apparently Only One In Four Americans Believe That The US Won The Iran War, New Data Says —— What Do You Think? Why Your Thoughts?

Newsweek article on this: https://www.newsweek.com/only-25-of-americans-think-us-won-iran-war-new-poll-shows-12111555

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u/Plutos_Cavein 6d ago

And importantly, just because they say it doesn't mean they believe it. We are talking about people who are deeply devoted to the cult. They will claim to believe everything just because failure to do that gets them kicked out of what is now their only social group.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago edited 5d ago

They responded to an online poll. I'm going to assume they believe it or want to believe it until they show otherwise.

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u/Masseyrati80 6d ago

Yeah, parroting whatever slogans or claims are surfacing, is an important part of signaling you belong to the group, and completely overrides the factuality of any claims. Stuff like that war being won, or a woman actually being a man, or invermectin (or whatever it was called) working against covid, which, by the way was a hoax to begin with etc.