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What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom? (piefed.social)

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[–] Koarnine@pawb.social 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Big fan of

"The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth"

Garry Kasparov (2015)

That is to say, don't let them shut you up.

There is a longer, more historical version of this but it escapes me at the moment.

I can only find the Hannah Arendt quote (1974)

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And [to] such a people... you can do whatever you want."

But i swear there was one that finished "When the truth is silent, liars can move onto action"

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago

Idk why but your last line made me think of that line from the offspring song, "when the truth walks away everybody stays because the truth about the world is that crime does pay"

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Love these unveiling of manipulation tactics. Especially in a time where the narrative is usually focused on the face-value of disinformation/misinformation, or straight up lying when discovered.