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emanymton69

(125 posts) Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:27 AM 20 hrs ago

Constant Lying

A hellscape is coming ...

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."
Attributed to Hannah Arendt

Keep in mind, mass media are owned and operated by corporations spreading lies for profit. What ever the market will bare and market is lies; it costs less to tell a lie than expend the energy to find the truth. Leaving consumers ignorant cynical and empty.

The people of USA are in for some seriously dark times.

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Constant Lying (Original Post) emanymton69 20 hrs ago OP

The firehose of falsehood Mike 03 20 hrs ago #1

Republicans head the corporations that own the media. live love laugh 18 hrs ago #2

It's true. bronxiteforever 18 hrs ago #3

It's literally our JOB to boycott msm and cable...period! PortTack 17 hrs ago #4

Yes, as long as lies are profitable, corporate America will do what it's designed to do. Magoo48 17 hrs ago #5

who will see 'dark times' ? kiri 17 hrs ago #6

Mike 03

(16,770 posts)

1. The firehose of falsehood

Reply to emanymton69 (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:44 AM

20 hrs ago

Over time it creates passivity and a sense of powerlessness. But for people who are curious and hungry for the truth, and can discriminate between news and propaganda, we can still know the truth--although it's sort of a thankless, hopeless task trying to convince MAGA cultists. We will have to be content just to know the truth for ourselves, and for the sake of knowing.

live love laugh

(14,395 posts)

2. Republicans head the corporations that own the media.

Reply to emanymton69 (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:03 AM

18 hrs ago

mass media are owned and operated by corporations spreading lies for profit.

bronxiteforever

(9,401 posts)

3. It's true.

Reply to live love laugh (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:35 AM

18 hrs ago

PortTack

(34,642 posts)

4. It's literally our JOB to boycott msm and cable...period!

Reply to live love laugh (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:50 AM

17 hrs ago

Magoo48

(5,336 posts)

5. Yes, as long as lies are profitable, corporate America will do what it's designed to do.

Reply to PortTack (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:07 AM

17 hrs ago

Profit.

kiri

(883 posts)

6. who will see 'dark times' ?

Reply to emanymton69 (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 10:35 AM

17 hrs ago

"The people of USA are in for some seriously dark times. "

No, only certain people. The great majority will be oblivious, they go to their jobs, get their paycheck, and believe. The "rule of law", great institutions, are all meaningless abstractions. Trump has preyed and prayed on this for years, and always gets away with it. His maga people will not see "dark times", not even cloudy ones.

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