It's also like perfectly reasonable to forget if two events happening 35 years ago within a few months of eachother were contemporaneous or not. Fact checking really jumped the shark over the past decade lol

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really don't think it's reasonable.

Like if you were in the US on 9/11, or travelled there a couple months later.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You really don't think there are people who went to NYC in like November, and are convinced they were at ground zero on 9/11?

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Like some sort of Chinese Tim Walz?

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

A succulent Chinese Walz :democracy-manifest:

[–] edge@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No it’s not really? He was part of one event and can easily look up when the other happened.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I forget when events I was a part of happened all the time. For him to misremember by a few months something that happened more-than-my-lifetime ago seems pretty reasonable to me.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

This seems to happen even more when an event is a part of your life narrative. Like I regularly hear friends and family members reshape events of their life as they're telling stories. Uncomfortable fact but our memories are really unreliable, and as we retell stories to ourselves and people we know they often get changed with time. It's probably not worth obsessing over when politicians do it with their own life stories (though obviously important with historic narratives).

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

Amazed thry didn't pull the evil censorship card: "I was minding my business in an exchange programme, nobody told me they killed 420 billion people 3 blocks down the street!"