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Bernardo de La Paz

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6. Yes, and more: to get Americans to distrust all information

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #2)

Thu Nov 6, 2025, 12:41 PM

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Per Hannah Arendt, the reason for so much fascist lying is not get people to believe the lies, but to believe nothing.

You see it on DU now, where some people are automatically cynical. They don't realize that they've bought into the fascist playbook, become willing stooges. They don't realize they are carrying the tyranny's water for them.

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Waiting it out will by my neighbor's choice. Attilatheblond Thursday #14

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Jobs and kids in school Attilatheblond Thursday #21

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Yes, and more: to get Americans to distrust all information Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #6

Today being cynical is not propaganda. Irish_Dem Thursday #7

There is cynicism and there is default reflex cynicism. Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #10

Hannah Arendt, who self-deported from Nazi Germany Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #11

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