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Do you think that Stahl knows the role she played here, and did it on purpose? I’ve encountered so many people whose brains are now basically mush. (It’s hard to say if that’s really a change from the past or if they had a reputation they didn’t deserve.) While there are definitely evil people out there, a bit easier for me to believe she’s lost cognitive abilities than that she was willingly playing that role.

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I don’t think she thinks she is doing anything wrong. Which is one reason things like this are scary. One interview on its own is nothing. But if each individual interviewer thinks like that, collectively it leads to something bad. Kind of makes me think of this story from The Onion: https://www.theonion.com/how-bad-for-the-environment-can-throwing-away-one-plast-1819571260

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