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"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I'd rather hear about things that are actually happening.

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[–] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 92 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Americans with their 'greatest nation on earth' charade.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has a name: American exceptionalism. It's used both by people who know it's a lie and by people who believe it.

[–] creamed_eels@toast.ooo 9 points 9 months ago

So it worked!

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Most of what people believe about America's history is post WWII mythmaking and revision. It's a shame because the labor movement in America has a fascinating history, and we're about to relive it.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The shoot-outs are going to be 100x better this time

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 2 points 9 months ago

Can't wait to be teabagged by a Boston Dynamics robo dog after it murders my whole family for paying my Amazon Prime 2 days late!

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

Not even that. Politicians in even just the generation after Washington deified the framers of the Constitution, even when the remaining alive ones protested against it.