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A Big Enough Lie

A Big Enough Lie | IF YOU TELL A BIG ENOUGH LIE AND TELL IT FREQUENTLY ENOUGH, IT WILL BE BELIEVED. YEAH, I'M QUOTING HITLER | image tagged in trump,hitler,guilfoyle | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
946 views 2 upvotes Made by ifurusato 4 years ago in politics
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2 ups, 4y,
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Since you say it's a quote you might be interested in learning that it isn't.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/49147/what-is-the-origin-of-this-hitler-quote-regarding-lying
0 ups, 4y,
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Yeah, I know that it wasn't a quote from Hitler. I think you're kinda missing my point: "If you tell a lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." ...or maybe there were too many layers of interpretation to this one, i.e., I was being too meta.
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2 ups, 4y,
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Too many layers? Being too meta?
No, you're just a f-cking idiot. Bank on it.
0 ups, 4y
Everybody you disagree with or fail to understand isn't an idiot. Insulting someone you know nothing about just shows you have no honor in how you conduct yourself publicly, and it says a great deal about your intellect. I don't know who you are but I know how you act when you act anonymously, which is as a coward. I'm fine with you having no honor. But are you? Are the people around you? Do you act like this in person? Why? Why not?

I'm really tired of the way people treat people when there are no consequences. If insulting me you might end up losing a few teeth you might not be so bold. And if you were willing to fight me over something so stupid as this you wouldn't be worth fighting.
0 ups, 4y,
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“Yeah, I know that it wasn't a quote from Hitler. I think you're kinda missing my point...”
If that’s your point, why does your meme say “Yeah, I’m quoting Hitler”?
0 ups, 4y
Having to explain a joke, aaahhhhhhh.

Look: the quote is well known as being misunderstood as one from Hitler. But the whole idea of the "colossal untruth" is actually from Hitler. If you don't believe me, check out the "Big lie" page on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie) which describes where Hitler was quoted: in his book Mein Kampf. The quote I'm using is the common "false Nazi quotation" attributed (wrongly) to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda. Goebbels did however say:

"The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous."

Now if that doesn't describe the current situation in the US I don't know what does.

The joke is meta, i.e., the quote has been repeated both as a truth and as a lie, enough times that nobody is clear about whether it is or isn't. That's actually the *point* of propaganda, and it's actually what Steve Bannon was on about when he said "flood the zone with shit." All of you who actually believe a word coming out of Trump's mouth are falling prey not to whether or not something is true or isn't -- that's not the point -- it's flooding the zone with so much shit that nobody can figure out what's true or not anymore, to devalue truth and to distract. That's propaganda. QAnon and the rest of this "shit" is purely cheap and rather stupid propaganda, and sadly people are buying it.

So yeah, I'm the f-cking idiot.
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Her and Jr are making millions from the sheep donors. Enough apparently to buy a lot of cocaine. All that yelling and glossy eyes
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