"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? - eviltoast

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.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      38
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      11 months ago

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

    • Rooskie91@discuss.online
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago

      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.

        • Rooskie91@discuss.online
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          11 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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        11 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.