"I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis," the Democrat said. "And I will do that until I am six feet in the ground.”
  • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    Yeah AOC is wrong here, more than half of people voted for a clear nazi sympathizer. If we hated nazis so much we wouldn’t have done that.

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      repeated words lead to ideas which lead to changed thought processes. we have witnessed this with the rapidity of an intravenous injection since 2016.

      we cannot hope to take control of the zeitgeist (yeah, I went there) without pushing back hard on words and ideas. “america hates nazis - do you love nazis?!”. now go out and repeat it ad nauseam. I am doing it.

      • EisFrei@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 months ago

        It’s not like the Nazis already had this exact same idea. Oh wait. They did.

        https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot

        If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.