"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.

  • dnick@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I think the point is that it’s difficult to attribute that to communism in any meaningful way where you’re comparing it to non-communism. Like if those 100 million people would have died anyway, how to do you say ‘it was communism that did it’ since maybe more would have died under the next most likely form of government that would have been in it’s place. How many people have died for Democracy, assuming that both world wars and countless other ones were fought to defend it.

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      11 months ago

      Like if those 100 million people would have died anyway, how to do you say ‘it was communism that did it’

      Ehhhh, because you can tie it directly to communist policies like collectivisation?