I'm genuinely perplexed at people who say they receive “a barrage of extremely rude, very entitled, often misinformed responses,” or something to the same effect, because when you go look at the responses it is _never, ever_ true.

It's not that I can't see some of them. I went to her instance, so I saw whatever she got. She's lying, plain and simple.

I singled her out as an example, but my point is more general: why do people lie about something that's so easy to check?

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> why do people lie about something that’s so easy to check?

because they get away with it, there are always enough people who will eagerly support this. i think it's classic ingroup outgroup behavior.

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