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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 10 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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[โ€“] ArtieShaw@kbin.social 38 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Off the top of my head:

-Anything involving babies and incubators is immediately suspect. (Or babies and bayonets, for that matter).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

-And this one is pure conspiracy, and I know it's not what you asked for... but it's ridiculous and 'tis the season. My mother in law is convinced that the lyrics to "Oh Christmas Tree" (O Tannenbaum) were changed by people who wanted to erase the true and original lyrics. By who? Big Tree financiers? Communists who are stealing Christmas and replacing it with trees?

Anyway...

The original lyrics, according to this conspiracy, praise God and never mention trees at all. It's completely ridiculous and always ends with the whole family singing along with the "true lyrics" from a badly photocopied paper that she hands out. I hope this doesn't come up again this year because it really makes me want to fight. Which would make me the bad person, because who initiates fights on Christmas? The next couple of days are going to be tough.

[โ€“] Birdie@thelemmy.club 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, the lyrics of a song with a title that literally translates to "Oh, Christmas tree" originally had absolutely nothing to do with trees?? I'd ask how she wraps her mind around that dichotomy, but I know people who believe in conspiracies do not need proof nor logic to believe.

Good luck. I'll be entertaining my Trumpster QMIL, so I'll be fighting along with you to control myself.

[โ€“] Classy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Q" MIL?

[โ€“] Birdie@thelemmy.club 4 points 10 months ago

Yep. She believes it all.

[โ€“] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Quasi, I guess if you're not actually married?

[โ€“] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Q here is referring to their mother-in-law's belief in the QAnon conspiracy.

[โ€“] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I just hoped for a better acronym.

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