And why wouldn't we have believed it? What was the alterative evidence/point of view that would have permitted a different conclusion?

Start producing the goods or stop making the claims.

Evidence.

Have you figured at that no one here will accept what you say based on your supposed authority.

We have no clue who you are. Problem is you present yourself as an insider w/ special knowledge we can't possible have.

Not sure who u r but I can tell you that Q never spoke this way.

Q seems strategically designed to place authority in evidence and the truth rather than the speaker.

I'm a Socratic. When I don't have the evidence "I know that I do not know and cannot know."

I don't think you've learned well the lesson.

You act like a smug elite who has been removed from ordinary life with ordinary people for some time.

Like HRC not driving a car for decades or H.W. not knowing how a grocery scanner works.

We trust people who put their pants on one leg at a