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Which is why they revoked your math license, we know the story.

No, when you say 2 + 2 = 5, you can put it off as "He can't be serious", and then it's off your mind. But if the person keeps asserting it till you can't brush it off anymore, that's when heads tend to roll. It goes against what you believe, and subconsciously, that goes against you as a person.



To paraphrase a famous xkcd strip, "2+2 = 5" isn't funny anymore when it's being stated by a US Congressman.




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