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pbmus

(12,422 posts) Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:30 PM Jun 2020

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'Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it'...Goebbels

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'Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it'...Goebbels (Original Post) pbmus Jun 2020 OP

I Guess Bull Connor and George Wallace Are No Longer Availiable Stallion Jun 2020 #1

Goebbels was just channeling a phrase attributed to Lenin DFW Jun 2020 #2

Thank you empedocles Jun 2020 #3

If you look at how the Republican Party has done things since Nixon, Blue_true Jun 2020 #4

Stallion

(6,474 posts)

1. I Guess Bull Connor and George Wallace Are No Longer Availiable

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Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:42 PM

Jun 2020

DFW

(54,370 posts)

2. Goebbels was just channeling a phrase attributed to Lenin

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Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:59 PM

Jun 2020

"A lie, shouted loud enough and often enough, becomes the truth."

Professional propagandists know their field.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

3. Thank you

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Tue Jun 9, 2020, 09:41 PM

Jun 2020

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)

4. If you look at how the Republican Party has done things since Nixon,

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Tue Jun 9, 2020, 10:54 PM

Jun 2020

it is all about putting out lies, then saying them over and over in chorus. And a very large number of Americans have fell for that.

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