• qprimed
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    3 hours ago

    repeated words lead to ideas which lead to changed thought processes. we have witnessed this with the rapidity of an intravenous injection since 2016.

    we cannot hope to take control of the zeitgeist (yeah, I went there) without pushing back hard on words and ideas. “america hates nazis - do you love nazis?!”. now go out and repeat it ad nauseam. I am doing it.

    • EisFrei@lemmy.world
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      It’s not like the Nazis already had this exact same idea. Oh wait. They did.

      https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot

      If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.