@Leyonhjelm @LostInCalifornia @polarisera This particular thing I have actually had some success with telling people, I think it's that generally everyone believes they have good insight into politics so they'll argue with you but if I come into a thread and say "hey so this COBOL thing, I happen to know something about this, it's just not true and there's literally no evidence for their claim on the Internet" people are willing to concede it because they know they don't actually know anything about COBOL. Also the simple math just doesn't add up.

The COBOL explanation sounds great so I totally get why people want to believe it and share it with other people. But it just doesn't hold up to investigation.