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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?

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  • Just another hated boss. Not too uncommon. I'm sure plenty of people who work for him don't like him either. SpaceX does get plenty of positive recognition and feedback, too.

    • A Palestinian student deleted her social media. Israel revoked her permit

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  • “They asked me why I didn’t approve [friend requests], and why I deleted and blocked people on Facebook and Instagram,”

    What an insane thing to be questioned about by police.

    • Afghan schoolgirls are finishing sixth grade in tears. Under Taliban rule, their education is over

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  • Yes sir! Only Bible!

    Anyway, pretty fucking weird society where they have to wrap 6th grade girls from head to toe to avoid feeling attracted to them.

    • Considering today’s film/TV ratings, do you think they reflect audience fatigue, industry shifts, societal changes, and new viewing habits, not quality drop?

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  • This is fairly easy to disprove as I can think of in say, video games, a company releasing 5-6 remakes of games they made 30 years ago. So... 30 years ago, the games they released that year were the originals. This year, it's 6 remakes. Someone on reddit analyzed this, though it's kind of vague as there are no units for the vertical axis. I suppose it does show proportions by year.

    • Judge rules that Twitter violated contract when it withheld millions of dollars in bonuses

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  • Sure, though not as wealthy as he is currently.

    • W rule

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  • Great! When can we start?

    • When two vegans get in an argument, is it still called a beef?

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  • It's a beet.

    • "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?

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  • Right, I agree. The progressive side of the US is not fairly represented by Democrats nationally.

    • Parkable cities

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  • It's true though that many Americans have never lived in a city with functional public transportation, so they don't even consider it. I lived in a city with a decent light rail system and it wasn't really reasonable because I would have had to walk 1.5 miles across hellish intersections (or taken an uber?) to even get to a train station, and I lived in a fairly urban area.

    • Parkable cities

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  • Saying "I want to know how they deal with parking", assuming they have vast parking garages and a shrug emoji is what I interpreted as puzzled. If you're not clear it's a reference to access to public transportation.

    • Parkable cities

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  • There's a Christmas market about half that size in Denver. I've never been puzzled about how people get there.

    • "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?

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  • A lot of leftists (and I hardly ever saw it before coming on Lemmy) use 'Liberal' to mean Classic or Neo Liberal - basically a synonym of capitalist.. That's not at all what it means in American politics, where it means the opposite of Conservative. If we used that definition, Conservatives would be called Liberals as well as Liberals being Liberals, which obviously makes no sense for US lingo. However, they both are Liberals in the neo/classic sense as most US Liberals aren't calling for communism.

    • "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?

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  • You know what the word 'mostly' means, right?

    • Judge rules that Twitter violated contract when it withheld millions of dollars in bonuses

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  • Some people say stuff like "well bet he didn't get rich by paying his bills! Yeah!" He didn't get rich by not paying his bills either. I knew a lady who inherited a large urban motel and was quite wealthy, and she'd buy 65 cent dozens of expired eggs on sale and be all excited that it was a bargain. It's part of their pathological attachment to having more money, and in Elron/Trump's case, complete disregard for other people and moral principles.

    • Judge rules that Twitter violated contract when it withheld millions of dollars in bonuses

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  • So far Elron's excuse is basically "well, I had my fingers crossed"

    • "Hey Google, find the nearest Burger King" - "Sure, here is one on the other side of the globe!"

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  • Lillipad Cafe in Sydney, AU. I was going to order a kangaroo burger with deep-fried saltbush, but turns out they're closed :(

    • "Hey Google, find the nearest Burger King" - "Sure, here is one on the other side of the globe!"

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  • I was reading an Apple Maps “best restaurants” guide and it had a button to get Uber Eats from a restaurant listed as 7,900 miles away.

    • Chill. They didn't actually tell their family to buy crypto.

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  • Sometimes they even just repost something they found on the internet

    • Blinken calls out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender and ‘stop hiding behind civilians’

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    • Maybe I'm just straight boomerposting rn

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  • 'fanum tax' = some streamer or tiktok or youtuber or something called fanum who takes people's food and says 'fanum tax'
    'ohio' = I think it's about "ohio vs the world" which has something to do with the entire US being Ohio
    'gyatt' = exclamation about a big butt
    'skibidi' = reference to this bizarre series called skibidi toilet which features toilets with heads sticking out of them doing battle with robots with cameras on their heads