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by bena 1509 days ago
It's real, it exists.

But people who want to ignore it like to pretend it's something that it's not. It's raw intelligence. It's saying "Hey, here are things we heard you should check out."

It's a lot like the VAERS database. It doesn't prove anything on its own, but it can indicate things we should look into more closely.

And that's how a lot of people treated it: These are things we should probably check out.

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> But people who want to ignore it like to pretend it's something that it's not. It's raw intelligence. It's saying "Hey, here are things we heard you should check out."

“Hey, I heard a few things about Biden raping babies, you should check it out.”

See how it might be important to use more than “raw intelligence” about “stuff you should probably check out” as the basis for an investigation and media witch hunt?

You check into things in accordance to the credibility of the person making the claims.

It would not take long to see that Biden doesn't rape babies. Hell, a lot of what was in the Dossier was not looked into because they just dismissed it out of hand.

This kind of casual dismissal and reductio ad absurdum you're engaging in is an attempt to distract from the very real crimes very real people were very really arrested for doing regarding things described in the document.