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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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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 74 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Communism=Authoritarianism

I was taught in school the characteristics of authoritarianism and a couple weeks later, when i was being taught about communism, the same characteristics were said

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

Going a step further, the idea of authoritarian. Every ideology with a state relies on some type of authority to function, as a term it is an attempt at equating fascism and communism and serves as holocaust trivialization.

[–] zenitsu@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They usually come packaged together. You'll have a hard time naming democratic liberal communist countries/leaders.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago

But a very easy time naming democratic communists. Even Stalin wasn't a dictator, according to liberal historians such as Conquest who are experts on the soviet union. Socialism is more democratic than capitalism.

[–] Cras@feddit.uk -2 points 11 months ago

You're right that they're absolutely not the same, however at a nation state level, I'd be very surprised if you could point to any communist regime at any point in history that wasn't also authoritarian or didn't end up that way