Comment by ekjhgkejhgk
3 days ago
You don't have to worry about projecting truth. The truth gets through. This is about projecting lies.
3 days ago
You don't have to worry about projecting truth. The truth gets through. This is about projecting lies.
> The truth gets through.
It often doesn't at all, drowned amongst lies.
And sometimes it takes a lifetime or two.
It took Boris Yeltsin, who had just become the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, actually visiting a random grocery store in Houston before he realised what the truth was:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_visit_by_Boris_Yeltsin_to...
most common people were aware of the cliff in economy between capitalist and communist states. Hence we had so many revolution and communism lost.
This was a communist apparatchik. Its like showing truth to MAGA people. Most wont accept it.
> Its like showing truth to MAGA people. Most wont accept it.
Could be. That was the other example I was considering using besides Yeltsin, but I figured it would immediately get met with "no u" responses from those who, as you say, won't accept it. That makes for boring conversations where I learn nothing.
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> You don't have to worry about projecting truth. The truth gets through. This is about projecting lies.
I wouldn't be so sure. Significant part of Russian population believes that they are purging Ukraine of evil nazis, for example. Or that WW2 started on 22 June 1941.
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"The truth gets through."
Yeah I agree, we shouldn't be too concerned about Iran, Russia, or China, censoring the internet, the truth gets through.
No need to go so far.
"Global tariffs all over the spectrum help the US economy! Look at my Beautiful Big Chart !" ... yeah, right.
In other words, a free system is inevitably ruled by hypocrites, while in dictatorships they are rejected that opportunity. This is another variant of “in democracy, people cannot rule because they’re stupid.”
Statists, failing to admit their guilt, blame everyone but themselves.
And no, the truth does not get through, even after centuries.
What if the truth is that something is a lie?
Promoting truth and opposing lies are the same thing.
Truth does not get through.