#Germany is the "world champion in remembrance," celebrated for its post-#Holocaust policies of ensuring that every German never forgot what had been done in their names, and in holding themselves and future generations accountable for the Nazis' crimes.
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If I say “dogs exist” but someone else believes that all dogs I see are “wolves” and not “dogs” then as far as they are concerned I am wrong.
I could give them a book showing the differences in dog and wolf anatomy but that assumes they will accept the differences are big enough to agree that they are two different animals which they won’t unless it fits their belief of evidence or they face social pressure to accept my belief as the truth.
There is NOTHING people won't lie to you about. ANY time someone tells you "nobody would lie about X" just tell them to shut their stupid fucking hole for me.
Angery morning so let me tell you a personal story in the replies.
CW: awful family shit, (false) sexual assault, trump supporters
Donald #Trump weighs in on the #RISCV debate:
"Communist China, they're in your every device. Every camera you see, there is a Chinese communist in there folks, and they're not afraid, no they are not, they are not afraid of what they see. They see a big country like America becoming weak again -- exactly according to their plan, the Chinese plan to make America little again. They call this plan RISK VEE, and while its a risk for America, its no risk for the communist Chinese. Not at all.
Believe me, the unhinged democrats who cheated you out of an election think you're stupid enough to take the RISKKK -- its in all caps folks, and they expect our country to bow down and pronounce the skkk, just like the Chinese do -- they think you're dumb enough to not comprehend their perverse joke and passively take the RISKKKK. Whats the RISKKKK? It means spending billions and billions of dollars to replace the greatest computers ever created with this little chinese trojan horse, sacrificing all of America's great power in the world. They say its a little computer, a computer with a whole lots less instructions than the Intel machines that America created that currently run the world, including #Truth Social, the most American app ever made. Our computers have so many instructions people, huge instructions, its what makes America great. And lets not beat around the bush: even if there are less instructions, you'll be following more of them, on toy computers created by the CCP, you'll follow their every instruction, instructions that tell men to become women and boys to become girls. You'll forget about Americas great instructions, and be following China's little instructions, without even having to understand Chinese. Their instructions are little enough that you wont even notice, thats the Chinese way. I won't have it folks, we're going to make these little computers illegal again!/s"
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
(1/6) The theme exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival “(Co)Owning More-than-Truth" argues that while #truth is crucial for progress, we need more than that. It suggests using truth as a tool to navigate complex knowledge structures and adapt to changing truths. The exhibit features various #artworks exploring truths from Earth's ecosystems, data collection, and information processing, challenging existing knowledge systems. Let’s take a look at some of them ...
The other day I saw this in a post: “The only way to know the truth is to read and learn the Bible” and I’ve been sitting with it. Here’s the thing: Jesus tells us that HE is the truth. So is the original post saying that the Bible leads to Jesus and therefore truth? Or are we trying to say that the words themselves are the truth? Because if it’s the latter, that’s getting close to idol territory… #Christianity#Bible#Truth#WhatIsTruth
Any cult. Especially religious communities, because often this is people's whole world.
I understand. I made this journey.
It's a terrible feeling when you discover it (the religion story) was all a lie. It is overwhelming.
But know in your life the sincere feelings and life experiences were real.
I'm sorry that I have to be the one to inform you.
The religion is a lie.
Know there is hope. There is love. It doesn't have to based on lies.
What people want is hope and love. That is what is promised in religion. Sadly that's what keeps folks stuck there.
The community of science, techies, artist, musicians and other learned and free spirits will accept you and offer friendships and if you're willing to hear ... there will be truth and facts. And long long deep breath of freedom.
In May, the #Queensland Liberal-National opposition provided bipartisan support for legislation establishing a 3-4 year #TruthTelling process, as a necessary precursor to the (extremely belated) negotiation of a treaty or #treaties with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples. And they did so in response to the #UluruStatementFromTheHeart (that had called for #Voice, #Treaty and #Truth).
At the time, opposition leader #DavidCrisafulli had personally encouraged people in his state to "embrace this [truth-telling] wholeheartedly". On the day the legislation passed, he said: "I believe in truth-telling and to me that means telling it like it is. […] We cannot shy away from the real experiences of #Indigenous Australians throughout history. We must tell the truth about the real challenges they are facing today."
But now, five months later yet before any of the formal processes of truth-telling have begun, he's withdrawn #LNP support for the legislation, promising to tear it up should his party be voted into government at the next election.
He claims he is doing so because he is listening—to the voices of the 'No' voters, who outnumbered the 'Yes' voters at last Saturday's #referendum.