How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’

[jc456]

The Following has been lied to about the economy so when the orange Dotard gets sworn in he can begin taking credit for a strong economy. Like he did last time.

well excuse me, if it's such a strong economy why did homeless numbers go up by 30% under this economy?

 

[jc456]

Passing through. I drive for a couple auto dealers. It's right on 70 and it's been a convenient food stop.

So how many people did you discuss eating pets with if you were passing through?

 

[pknopp]

So how many people did you discuss eating pets with if you were passing through?

As many as you. Not as many as those who live there who have all said it was complete B.S.

 

[jc456]

As many as you. Not as many as those who live there who have all said it was complete B.S.

I don't believe you ever were near Springfield, Ohio you fking liar. Fk you you scam fker.

 

[berg80]

Biden let 15 million legal immigrants sneak across the border? Liar.

Maybe you should spend some time deprogramming yourself from trump's lies.

Fact-checking Thousands of Trump's Quotes About Immigrants

Trump repeats false and misleading claims on immigration, an analysis of 12,000 statements shows.

www.themarshallproject.org

The effects of repeating a lie​

Beyond Trump, there is a growing partisan divide around the way politicians talk about immigrants. In a 2022 article published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe how they analyzed over 200,000 U.S. congressional speeches and 5,000 presidential communications on immigration since the late 1800s. While there has been a general trend toward more positive language on immigration, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to use words like “crime,” “legality” and “threat” and to use dehumanizing language, the researchers found.

Politicians across parties and nations continue to reap rewards by blaming immigrants for social problems. “Politicians, from far-right populists to centrist liberals, use anti-immigrant narratives to deflect attention from deeper systematic issues such as affordable housing shortages, economic inequalities and failing public services,” Yvonne Su, director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, wrote last month.

 

[berg80]

well excuse me, if it's such a strong economy why did homeless numbers go up by 30% under this economy?

Are you disputing the empirical data showing the economy, by normal metrics, has been strong for the last two years?

 

[jc456]

Are you disputing the empirical data showing the economy, by normal metrics, has been strong for the last two years?

Yep. Psst, if it was strong there'd be no reason for Trump right?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Maybe you should spend some time deprogramming yourself from trump's lies.

Fact-checking Thousands of Trump's Quotes About Immigrants

Trump repeats false and misleading claims on immigration, an analysis of 12,000 statements shows.

www.themarshallproject.org

The effects of repeating a lie​

Beyond Trump, there is a growing partisan divide around the way politicians talk about immigrants. In a 2022 article published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe how they analyzed over 200,000 U.S. congressional speeches and 5,000 presidential communications on immigration since the late 1800s. While there has been a general trend toward more positive language on immigration, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to use words like “crime,” “legality” and “threat” and to use dehumanizing language, the researchers found.

Politicians across parties and nations continue to reap rewards by blaming immigrants for social problems. “Politicians, from far-right populists to centrist liberals, use anti-immigrant narratives to deflect attention from deeper systematic issues such as affordable housing shortages, economic inequalities and failing public services,” Yvonne Su, director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, wrote last month.

Was it 12 million?

 

[berg80]

Yep. Psst, if it was strong there'd be no reason for Trump right?

trump could bring on a recession if he implements tariffs.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

trump could bring on a recession if he implements tariffs.

Why would tariffs bring on a recession?

 

[jc456]

trump could bring on a recession if he implements tariffs.

Explain

 

[Foolardi]

Are you disputing the empirical data showing the economy, by normal metrics, has been strong for the last two years?

Then why did the Electorate reject Biden/Harris.
The Economy was not important enough ?

 

[BluesLegend]

And Trump will continue with his fire hose of lies.

Lib please, YOU PEOPLE put the biggest liar on the planet in the White House. God does Biden ever speak without lying??

 

[Foolardi]

Lib please, YOU PEOPLE put the biggest liar on the planet in the White House. God does Biden ever speak without lying??

In his Dreams.Where he is On top of the world.
First sign of aged Dementia.

 

[Lesh]

Then why did the Electorate reject Biden/Harris.
The Economy was not important enough ?

The Electorate was reacting to the PERCEPTION that the economy was bad… not the reality.

IN other words they were reacting to Trump’s LIES

 

[berg80]

Which you can’t point to

Pointing to them is not a problem. Getting you to believe the facts is another matter.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-mar-a-lago/index.html

I predict you will disparage CNN but not factually refute any of trump's lies they note.

 

[EMH]

Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding this effect can help you avoid falling for propaganda, says psychologist Tom Stafford.

“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists something like this known as the "illusion of truth" effect. Here's how a typical experiment on the effect works: participants rate how true trivia items are, things like "A prune is a dried plum". Sometimes these items are true (like that one), but sometimes participants see a parallel version which isn't true (something like "A date is a dried plum").
After a break – of minutes or even weeks – the participants do the procedure again, but this time some of the items they rate are new, and some they saw before in the first phase. The key finding is that people tend to rate items they've seen before as more likely to be true, regardless of whether they are true or not, and seemingly for the sole reason that they are more familiar.

How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’

Repetition makes a fact seem more true, regardless of whether it is or not. Understanding the "illusion of truth" effect can help you avoid falling victim to this trick.

www.bbc.com

I've not seen a better explanation for how so many lies spewed by trump have become adopted by The Following as the truth. Most of us intuitively know it to be so. What else accounts for the persistent belief in the Big Lie, and so many others?

But he can't do it alone. What doesn't get enough attention is the crucial role conservative media plays in reinforcing the lies trump tells. If Faux fact checked trump on a regular basis the country would be a far different place. But then Faux's on air personalities lie inveterately as well. It's an essential part of their business model. Not correcting a lie being almost as bad as starting one.

There's another name for the "illusion of truth" trump so ardently believe in. Coined by trump's former chief propagandist, Kellyanne. It's called "alternative facts."

Kellyanne Conway: Sean Spice shared ‘alternative facts’ in Trump's crowd size

Kellyanne Conway, adviser to President Trump, joined “Meet the Press”on January 22, 2017. Chuck Todd pressed her about Trump’s decision to have Press Secretary Sean Spicer lie about inauguration crowd sizes. Conway said Spicer provided the White House Press Corps with “alternative facts.” Chuck...

www.nbcnews.com

What began as a tortured excuse for Sean Spicer's inaugural crowd size lie has blossomed in to the belief in what is tantamount to a parallel universe. A safe place for The Following to retreat to when reality becomes unbearably inconvenient.

Gosh, you have a PhD in the OP Title subject...


Got the courage to answer basic climate questions yet???

1. Why does one Earth polar circle have 9+ times the ice of the other?
2. Why is there ice age glacier south of Arctic Circle on Greenland but no such ice age glacier north of Arctic Circle on Alaska?
3. If the oceans are "warming" why is the record decade for canes still the 1940s?
4. If the oceans are "rising" why can't we see one single photo of land sinking?
5. How did Co2 thaw North America and freeze Greenland at the same time?

 

[GLASNOST]

How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’​

I knew all along Zoolinsky is not a Jew.

 

[berg80]

Explain

The kinds of tariffs he has threatened are inflationary and historically have resulted in retaliation from the affected countries. Meaning trade will slow and prices for imported goods will increase while exports decrease. A return of inflation will cause bond yields to rise and the Fed to raise interests rates resulting in an economic slowdown. That's a recipe for a recession.

 

[Mac1958]

What began as a tortured excuse for Sean Spicer's inaugural crowd size lie has blossomed in to the belief in what is tantamount to a parallel universe. A safe place for The Following to retreat to when reality becomes unbearably inconvenient.

As we've seen with the GQP, the Big Lie is bad and dangerous enough when repeated over and over by an influential person.

But it becomes exponentially worse when the lies are spread and supported by others for their own personal gain.

And again, the world has seen this before. It's like we're re-living history.