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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 11 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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[–] brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Except that the 'higher estimates' are the obviously nonsense ones that massively inflate the numbers. More than that, in no other context are famine deaths attributed to an ideology. If you were to count the famine deaths under capitalism, the number would be in the billions.

Also no, in order to get to 100 million, Nazi soldiers killed by the Red Army, soviet soldiers and civilians killed by the Nazis, and hypothetical babies who were never conceived had to be used to pad the stats, so your claim that 'your not far off' is just you repeating the lie another time in the hope that people will believe it this time.