A keystone of leftist psychology that "the others" are dumb. This leads directly to "fact checking" and ultimately memory holing information that the masses are "too dumb" to see. This idea that one is correct in deciding what history others can see is a form of mental illness; _throughly_ anchored in human history.

The Wayback Machie is the latest 1984 example: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/information-war-interne...

(note yc already shadow bands 0h links by not allowing comments on submissions, this (yc) is an awesome place, it's sad really)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495333

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486135

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823044

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20623177