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What's the underrated quote that will stick with you for life? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by needthosepylons@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Even better if you can provide your own understanding of its meaning.

Mine would be :

"Nothing kills a man as much as being forced to represent a country" (and err considering the context, I must stress it has nothing to do with the current US shitshow), by a WW1 soldier, illustrator and writer named Jacques Vaché.

For me it just means being forced into representing a group (national, of course, but maybe also social, racial, sexual, professional, any kind of group) or defining one's identity only by reference to a group is to be avoided at all costs.

Note : Its not the same, imho, as engaging in a collective struggle or defense against a common oppression.

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is said that cameras don't lie, but we must remember that liars use cameras. - Michael Parenti

This is a statement on the bias of all media, i like to use the same quote regarding statistics too.

[–] Toekneegee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've heard that something like 67.3% of statistics are made up on the spot and 95.2% of people believe then whether they're accurate or not - especially if there's a decimal involved.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Even if its not straigh up made up, data can be easily manipulated by omission of other data, disingenous presentation (countries military spending graphs for example), outdated methodology, or straigh up meaningless indexes (freedom index lmao).

There are just way too many ways to manipulate data to paint a narrative and people that are just politically asleep, think of STEM area people, are easily fooled by these tactics.