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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's a TVTropes page for things like this, of course.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Capitalist realism

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

That the 2020 election was stolen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Liberalism.. that is classical and neo-liberalism, as they were invented by a bunch of lords and sir's who were angry that the monarchy was getting a cut. It's the preferred ideology of the finance industry, as they can't have liberationism or lazze fair capitalism because the guillotines would roll out much too quickly. But they sure can define global markets and the value of currencies.

Watch US pundits harp on and on about the monarch's of Europe, but not a squeak about the aristocracy or the barons. It's also funny to note that because of goal post moving, liberalism which technically is slightly right from center, has become "left wing". So when you tell Americans that technically they have two right wing parties, they lose their absolute shit.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

That the 2020 election was stolen via widespread voting fraud.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (22 children)

That the USA could have won the Vietnam War in the early years but went easy on them and it back fired

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

98% of everything that Americans especially but the people of white countries in general have heard about North Korea is false, and the general ethos of being some kind of psychotic tin-pot dictatorship with no grip on reality is purely an American invention (with the help of the sellouts and agents in the South). There is plenty to criticize the DPRK for -- even including stereotypical lines about the less-social elements of its Confucian heritage coloring state ideology all the way back to Kim Il-Sung -- but the image that most "westerners" have in their heads is fundamentally a fabrication, despite how confident they are in it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the entirety of trump. Tell the lie on a TV show to accelerate results

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (13 children)

That there was a protest against something in Beijing from April until June 4th 1989.

Heard the glorious communist party rolled over the protestors with tracks but that's impossible!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

The council of nicea verifiably, empirically did NOT collect the gospels to make the new testament as we know it. The gospels were already being bound together, seen as a whole, etc before the council, and after the council there was still a bunch of what's now considered apocrypha.

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