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Link to tweet
Up is down, day is night, on is off and high is low. The problem is 99% of these low information voters that attended this believe this without question.
bif
(22,764 posts)If you keep repeating a lie over and over, people will believe it. Thank you Mr. Goebbels.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Black people have been sparse at dumety's rallies lately.
MerryHolidays
(7,715 posts)who sit prominently behind the Idiot at rallies wearing "Blacks for Trump" t-shirts.
Now that there is no more Russian money flowing into Trump's coffers, he can't pay these fools anymore to humiliate themselves. He needs the cash to fix his plane, instead.
sop
(10,271 posts)"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. - Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannotit confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal
than logic and reason. While the [people are] still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault [them] with another. - Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind
From "The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis Can Sanity Return to an Insane World?"
https://academyofideas.com/2021/04/manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world/
peggysue2
(10,842 posts)referenced, again and again. Because it is so on point and describes exactly what those of us who can still think are witnessing on a day-to-day basis.
The killing of the mind, collective madness?
Menticide.
Fear, isolation (think Covid lockdowns) and perpetual chaos all feed the monster(s).
I need to commit this one to memory.
Thank you for the link!
Initech
(100,107 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And it was only 5 seconds long.
These people have left their brains behind.