# People changing their minds on significant issues - then denying that they had **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-changing-their-minds-on-significant-issues-then-denying-that-they-had/1012148 "2024-12-25T15:28:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-changing-their-minds-on-significant-issues-then-denying-that-they-had/1012148/22 "2024-12-28T02:19:25Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > And sometimes, some people’s memories are just flat-out bad. There’ve been times when I’ve told someone about a viewpoint they held even just 8 or 9 years ago and they genuinely had no recollection of having ever said such a thing. But the thing is, that cuts both ways. [Here’s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-universe-can-we-get-some-better-trump-defenders-on-this-board/845663/382) something from, of all places, this very board, making pretty much the exact point in question: > [@](#): > > Two years ago or so, I Searched for the earliest posts to mention “Trump” by **The Other Waldo Pepper**. Most amusing! You thought he was a supreme genius, an enviable human, perhaps the greatest businessman since Henry Ford. I know you’re trying to hide from that now — (Did you also vote for Nitwit Johnson? 😛 ) — but it was quite telling. > > Do you know how to do that Search? If so, quote a few of your old posts and tell us if your opinion’s changed. And the thing was: I _didn’t_ remember saying any of that! But it wasn’t that my opinion had changed, and that I genuinely had no recollection of having held the old one; it was that the other poster simply hadn’t been remembering things right, which he noted after I brought it to his attention: “_ **I strongly apologize!** _ :o :o Mea culpa. Yes, I confused you with **Starving Artist.** ” But if I’d been banned by then, and no longer able to offer a timely suggestion, he presumably would’ve gone on incorrectly figuring that, _yep, thought one thing, changed his tune; says he doesn’t remember, maybe he doesn’t; oldest story in the book._ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-changing-their-minds-on-significant-issues-then-denying-that-they-had/1012148)._