I am only interested in what is true and that we should not build narratives on what is false or what we want to be true.  I think this happens too often and that this is a cause for a lot of divisiveness.  In fact, I have to wonder if the purveyors of these untruths and conjectures have a vested interested in riling up the public.  I think so.  I think this is true.

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