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by Traubenfuchs 1964 days ago
Is there really someone who believes this video was not planned / manufactured? Are you that gullible?
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Lots of things happen in the world. Some of them are hard to believe. If there is 1 billion cameras in the world they are bound to catch some 1 in a billion events
Exactly! We seem to process “unlikely” as “impossible”, but very unlikely events happen all the time. Just because there are also many, many opportunities for them to happen.

It’s also funny to see skeptics who think they cleverly avoid being manipulated when they see a cut off shadow fall into that trap because they are not skeptical enough of their own hypotheses.

They're at one of the biggest attractions in the capital city of a country. It's not exactly a stretch to think someone would capture this in the background.
I'm okay with them downvoting us now. Hopefully these comments will jolt something awake a few months (years?) from now when the story is "corrected".