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On one hand I can see your gas tank analogy being correct but I may be saying this out of habit of how we have been disarming disinformation that originates from random sources the whole time we have had social media but disarming disinformation that is backed and distributed by a authoritarian regimes that have a military force and possibly assassins and other means to physically shut people up it’s a bit harder especially when you’re going against them on a platform that they control and own
When me and my folks were deciding wether to get a kill trap or have a heart trap to trap coons and thank goodness we picked the have a heart trap as our cat Vlad got trapped the very first night then the next we caught the neighbors cat then the 3rd night we finally caught a raccoon