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"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I'd rather hear about things that are actually happening.

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Park for a walk

Can't you...just walk?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

I live in an area that is not safe for the kids (or adults) to walk. It's a hilly windy area outside city limits of a smaller touristy place. Lotta state park area if you go at least 4 miles away, though.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not if the American automotive industry has anything to say about it. The whole country has been built around making walking impossible or too dangerous to attempt, just to maximise car sales at the expense of citizens' freedoms.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't doubt it, I just don't understand it.

You don't have to walk on the roads. Is there no grass or dirt nearby to walk on?

[–] leftzero@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why have grass or dirt when you can have roads..? Grass and dirt sell no cars.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But what is next to the road

[–] leftzero@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Judging by the pictures I've seen of the US, and google maps street view, more road, or parking lots. Sometimes, but not often, short stretches of sidewalk, often not wide enough to walk on safely, regularly interrupted by lampposts and whatnot.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Do you have any examples? I'm picturing suburbia with houses next to houses and fences blocking everything except driveways that lead to roads that go nowhere except driveways for miles until hitting the highway.

But that just seems like a lazy video game set piece. I can't imagine it in reality