Comic #4043: truth-and-politics

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Panel 1: Person 1 (light skin, brown hair) and Person 2 (medium skin, curly hair) talking.
Person 1: You can get people to believe anything just by lying about who said it.
Person 2: There’ve been studies where you tell a person that a certain policy was created by a Republican or a Democrat.

Panel 2: Person 2: Participants will tend to support a policy almost entirely based on what group they believe proposed it.
Person 1: You can get people on the left to support extremely right-wing positions, or vice versa.

Panel 3: Person 1: Is this causing you to reevaluate the logic you think forms your beliefs?
Person 2: Nah. But, I do have an idea for a completely new type of gym.

Panel 4: Text Box: A prominent Republican strategist says that you can’t deadlift 400 pounds.
Person 1 (yelling): WROOOONG!
Person 2 (lifting weights):

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